WordPress Bible Gateway

My latest wordpress plugin is a plugin that automatically creates links to bible gateway from reference in wordpress posts. You can get it here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-bible-gateway/

Its not perfect yet as its a modification of wp-bible, but because it uses bible gateway it has premium translations like NIV, NLT, The Message, and many more! By default it will reference which ever translation the user last looked up using in biblegateway, but this can also be specified in the options. It should handle references at least like John 3:15-16 and some others and I’m hoping to refine it further as it goes on.

Version History
1.0.4
Fix so that all links now include version, not just some
Added option to open links in a new window
1.0.2
Bible version to link to can now be specified in the options
1.0.1
Fix for bible references like John 3 verses 15 to 16
1.0.0
Initial Version

Reader Comments

  5. Hi Justin. I checked out your page. The “h” on the end of the march reference is fixed in the latest version.

    The “mans” reference is actually because you have “roman” and not “romans”. Its actually linking to “man” which is short for “Manasses” part of the apocryphal which is used by the Catholic church. I wouldn’t have thought to add it but I copied a load of code from: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-bible/

  6. Thank you very much for looking at that, James! I didn’t notice that we had Roman instead of Romans; thanks for pointing that out.

  7. Just found this plugin and installed it on an Anglican Church wev site I’m developing. I have one question. Is it possible and what would I need to change to force the gateway results to open in a new window?

    Thank you

  9. We would like to provide this plugin for getting bible verses in Indian languages.Can you help me to customise it. You can email me.
    Thanks for your help.
    God bless
    Doulos

  11. HI James,

    Really am happy to have found this plug-in — I’ve noticed that it doesn’t pick-up all of the translations like ESV or the NKJV….version. Examples are on this page http://www.faithandattributesofgod.org/2009/10/king-david/

    I am new to WordPress so any tips would be greatly appreciated.

    Also, is there a way to have the link open up in a new tab or window instead of re-directing to Biblegateway?

    Thank you,
    David B.

  12. Hi,
    Currently in the wp-admin interface you can set a single translation and set it to open in a new window.

    You can’t set a different translation for each link, but that’s a good idea, I will think about adding it in the future.

    Thanks,
    James

  13. love the plugin! thank you. Is there a way that I can modify the code so that it when the bible verse is clicked, it opens in a new window? right now it opens in the same window taking the user away from our site. Also would be awesome if it opened in a “lightbox” style popup. The latter is of lesser importance. Again, thank you and love the plugin.

  15. Any plans to update the addon – or at least make the necessary changes so that WP lists it as compatible with the latest version?

  16. Great plug-in. Thanks for your work.

    I am having trouble linking to sites with a reference in the title. It wants to link to the verse rather than the page. Any ideas?

  17. I noticed that on regular english phrases about time, like “from 9:00-10:00”, it picked up “rom 9”. So it linked from the middle of the word “from”, and sent the link to Romans 9.

    To fix it, I changed the search array in the plugin specifically for Romans. I changed “Rom” to ” Rom” (added leading space). That fixed it.

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  19. Hey James, thank you so much for this plugin, it surely has been a blessing!

    I have run into an error today and cannot figure it out. Please check out a recent post: http://serious-things.com/blessings-and-responsibilities-of-believers/

    In the 2nd list of Responsibilities, around 1/2 way down (starting with Ephesians 5:10), the linky goodness is not completing and it’s cutting off the 0 in verse 10, thus linking to 5:1. It does this for the next 4-5 scripture references. I checked the HTML of these specific lines, and they are no different than all of the other scriptural references.

    Any clue? Feel free to hit me up if you need me to troubleshoot or provide any additional info. Thanks bro, blessings to you and yours.

    joseph

  20. James, we love this plug-in and are using it for our 6,000+ free resources on our Spanish ministry website. One thing that would help us is to have it also pick up abbreviated references for the books of the Bible. We have a “dictionary” of abbreviations that we use. If we supplied the “dictionary” how much would it cost to have this added to the tool?
    Thanks,
    Brian

  23. Thanks for considering it. I just received the Word File of the abbreviations. If we “hack” the code and add these abbreviations in as acceptable abbreviations is that okay?

  24. I’ve run across a strange bug that I wanted to let you know about. I had a bible reference for Romans 6:23; 8:17-18, but only “Romans 6:23” would be linked to Bible Gateway. For some reason it would skip over “; 8:17-18”. I was able to get the full link working but only when I changed the verse order to “Romans 8:17-18; 6:23.” Kind of a minor bug, but I wanted to let you know about it.

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