DISQUS

Development on a shoestring: Bible Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

  • Pieter · 3 years ago
    Hi, great work! In Wordpress 2 (using connections template and trying to put the function in the comments.php file in the theme directory), I just get nothing back from the function call. Any ideas?
  • Glenn Slaven · 3 years ago
    Have to clicked 'Update' on the options page. The plugin won't display until you have confirmed the selected options at least once, even if you're not changing anything.
  • petar · 3 years ago
    Wonderful plug-in! It's so encouraging to see God's Holy Word proclaimed throughout the world in new ways! Keep up the good work and be encouraged!
  • cozart · 3 years ago
    i'm running wordpress 1.5 and when i add the plugin to my directory i get this error:

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function: plugin_basename() in /home/rmfoblog/public_html/cozart/wp-content/plugins/wp-votd.php on line 32
  • Glenn Slaven · 3 years ago
    cozart: sorry In the latest updates I've used WP2.0 functions. You can either upgrade to 2.0, or the earlier version of the plugin should still work in 1.5 http://dev.wp-plugins.org/file/wp-votd/tags/2.5...
  • Jackie · 3 years ago
    Are there any plans to make this a widget?
    I am really struggling to get it formatted so that it looks like the rest of the items in my sidebar. If it were a widget I wouldn't have this problem, would I?
    Even if you don't make it available as a widget I think it is really cool!
  • Glenn Slaven · 3 years ago
    Jackie: It's definitely on my todo list!
  • jeff · 3 years ago
    I'm wondering if it is possible to use your plugin to display random items from the jargon database. They have a feed for that here:

    http://www.jargondb.org/random/rss.xml

    Thanks
  • Glenn Slaven · 3 years ago
    There's no reason why you can't, all it's doing is parsing the RSS feed & outputing the contents, you can change the formatting to remove references to verse & call it whatever you want.

    If you get it to work, please drop us a line so I can check it out.
  • Angi · 3 years ago
    Hi,

    I've activated the plugin, inserted the required code into my sidbar, updated and all that but it isn't showing up! Any tips on what I could be doing wrong?
  • Jon · 3 years ago
    Thanks for the nice plugin and clear instructions. My sister died last week and I just now put up a page for persons to leave comments for my family. The first verse that was "randomly" fed to my site was 1 John 2:24-25 "...abide in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise that he made to us--eternal life." God is so good!
  • Dirk · 3 years ago
    Glenn-

    Like several other, I'm not able to get this to work either in my wordpress blog. I do have the plugin activated so that is not the issue and I have the simple line of code in the right spot of my sidebar.php file.

    Are there any dependancies that the plugin requires? The only other plugin that I have activated is "Dashbar".
  • Dirk · 3 years ago
    PROBLEM RESOLVED

    Glenn -

    I think I found the reason that I and perhaps others have not been able to see anything on their pages after following the above instructions. It appears that if you never visit the "Options" / "Verse of the Day" page under the Word Press admin menu, the verse won't display. After I just went to the page for the first time, my VOTD started to show up on my blog. I'm guessing that something must get written somewhere by visiting that page to configure the plug-in.

    So if your having the VOTD not show up, try going to that options page and then check again.
  • Glenn Slaven · 3 years ago
    Dirk, very true, if you note this comment you'll see others have had this problem before. I've now added those instructions to the installation section in the post above. I probably should have put that in earlier, I guess I just assumed people would do it any way. Silly me :)
  • Dirk · 3 years ago
    "Dirk, very true, if you note this comment you’ll see others have had this problem before."

    Funny, I read that post and assumed something completely different ... must have been reading too fast. Serves me right. Thanks for the quick response.
  • john · 3 years ago
    Well, I have gone through each of the above and its still not working. I have updated the options mutiple times. I have checked that I have the latest 2.6 release of votd. I am using yellowhite3c as the theme and I have update the leftsidebar.php to have in it. I have updated this leftsidebar.php before and see the changes (the del.icio.us tag) so I know changes work.

    I am the end of what I think I can do.

    Any help is requested....
    John
  • JC · 2 years ago
    Nice Plugin. I never thought there would be a plugin like this. I use a script from verseoftheday.com
  • Tony · 2 years ago
    Anyone know of an RSS Feed for the NASB? All I can find is the ASV.
  • Glenn Slaven · 2 years ago
    Tony: unfortunately it seems that the NASB publishers don't let verse of the day feeds be published: http://www.biblegateway.com/usage/votd/rss/votd...
  • Josh · 2 years ago
    Thanks for your work on this plugin. I have one question. I cannot get the end of the feed to look right. This is how it looks on my page.


    live by faith." (
    Romans 1:16-17
    , ESV) (
    Listen
    )

    I widened the sidebar and that did not fi it....Forgive my ignorance.
  • Glenn Slaven · 2 years ago
    There's a problem with the stylesheet on that page. I've emailed you a possible fix.
  • pablopabla · 2 years ago
    Excellent plugin! I put it up at http://deliciousasianfood.com
  • Tony · 2 years ago
    Thanks for the info on the NASB. Great plugin, BTW.
  • Tony · 2 years ago
    How do i change the color of the font?
  • Tony · 2 years ago
    FOUND THE ANSWER ON YOUR SITE!!:D

    Jackie, the best way to control the font is to use CSS. If you’re not familiar with CSS you should probably have a look here and here.

    But in short, the verse text is contained inside a HTML paragraph element with an id of ‘votd’. What this means is that if you open up your css document (in your case it’s wp-content/themes/ocadia/style.css) and go to the bottom of the file and insert the following:

    #votd {
    font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
    font-size: 12px;
    color: red;
    }

    it will make the VotD text 12 pixels in size, in the Verdana font and coloured red. You’ll probably want to style it somewhat different to that though :)

    Glad to hear it all worked the way it’s supposed to!
  • john · 2 years ago
    how do you change the bible version?
    i've tried wp_votd('NIV'); but it still displays the ESV version.

    Thanks!
  • Glenn Slaven · 2 years ago
    John, there is an options page for the plugin where you can set the version. Go to wp-admin -> Options -> Verse of the Day & pick from the list there. The NIV is one of the options.
  • vie · 2 years ago
    thanks for the plugin. it's awesome. love it.
  • Jazzy · 2 years ago
    This is wonderful. Thank you so much!
  • ivie · 2 years ago
    thanks for the plugin but after I activate the plugin, I have problem to load the import page under manage in wp-admin. when I want to import my post from my other blog to simplyvie, I can't load the import page. if I deactivate votd plugin.. then the import page loading successfully. well I think that's all from me.
  • Peggy · 2 years ago
    I love this plug-in! But what I appreciated most of all were your great install instructions. Thanks so much!
  • David Stembridge · 2 years ago
    Hi there, Can the listen option be removed?
    http://cfnb.morningstarmedia.org/wordpress
    I'm using the Anarchy Media Player plugin, and it makes this kinda weird...
    I'd really rather just have the text anyway...
    Thanks and GodsPeace!
  • Glenn Slaven · 2 years ago
    Yep, if you go into the options page for the Plugin in admin and remove [ENCLOSURE] from the Display Template, it won't show the listen link any more.

    Cheers
  • Tony · 2 years ago
    Great Plug-in. Thanks for putting the time into it for us to share the Word! :)
  • erin · 2 years ago
    i seem to be having trouble. the verse never changes, it stays on the same one, unless i click update in options.
  • anthony · 2 years ago
    Thanks for the plugin. It's very useful.
    I have one question. The plugin is showing alright on my website(I'm using WP 2.1.3) but it won't refresh. The same verse is staying for few days and every time I have to go to the option page and click the 'update' manually for it to refresh. Does anyone have the same problem?

    Thanks in advance.
  • Glenn Slaven · 2 years ago
    erin & anthony: Can you tell me, what version of WordPress are you running? Also, are you running version 3.0 of the plugin?
  • anthony · 2 years ago
    I'm using wordpress 2.1.3 and version 3.0 of the plugin.
  • Rachel · 2 years ago
    I am having the same problem as erin and anthony. The verse isn't refreshing. I am also using wordpress 2.1.3 and version 3.0 of the plugin. Any help with this would be great! Love the plugin!
  • Glenn Slaven · 2 years ago
    Erin, Anthony & Rachel, there is a new beta version of the plugin available http://blog.slaven.net.au/archives/2007/05/28/n...

    I'm hoping that it will solve this problem
  • Jim · 2 years ago
    Hi there,

    I use your plugin at http://www.ucb.com/blog/ i have a problem though... the font sizes are too small.

    here are my questions:

    1. what can i do to solve this? I am a newbie on this... so if you can guide me what to do and how to do it i will appreciate it.
    2. i accidentally deleted the text in the configuration box... all i have now there is "[TEXT]" could you please give me again the default values again please?

    thanks,

    Jim
  • Jim · 2 years ago
    I think i have tweaked it and it partly worked... have a looksie at www.ucb.com/blog/

    My problem now is that the text isn't in the box... or overflows out of the box... you'd know what i mean when you see it...

    is there anything i can do to make it work "in" the box?

    -Jim
  • Glenn Slaven · 2 years ago
    Jim, I'm not seeing the verse at all I guess you're working on it at the moment, but if it's not contained then I would guess there is a CSS problem. It does appear that the calendar is pushing out of its box & above.
  • Hunter Chorey · 2 years ago
    Hey Glenn! Any progress on a version that works for Wordpress Widgets? :) That would, indeed, be awesome.
  • Glenn Slaven · 2 years ago
    Hunter, I've got a beta version available now, you can grab it here: http://blog.slaven.net.au/archives/2007/05/28/n...

    Please let me know how it goes
  • Hunter Chorey · 2 years ago
    awesome! trying it out now... :)
  • Gerard · 2 years ago
    Hi,

    A few days ago I installed the plugin. I really like it, but it doesn’t refresh. Even since I installed the new beta version 3.5 it won’t refresh.

    Any help is welcome.

    Thanks
  • Hunter Chorey · 2 years ago
    Glenn, the beta version works wonderfully on my side. Thanks so much! :)
  • David Stembridge · 2 years ago
    I have a "high-speed" problem with th MP3 playback... on the following site:
    http://cfnb.morningstarmedia.org/wordpress/news/

    any ideas? How do I just remove the MP3 playback altogether?
    Thanks!
  • Bryan Warman · 2 years ago
    I can't get this to work at all. It looks like a great plug-in and I've tried everything I can but I'm at a loss. I can't even get it to show a "Display Output within the plug-in options page. The three version customization forms are all populated with the following by default:





    and any time I try to change them they automatically revert back to the above. Ideally I would like to use this as a widget but I can't even get it to show up as a plug-in. I have tried various themes. The actual widget shows up with the title but not the text. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
  • Bryan Warman · 2 years ago
    Sorry. My previous post took away my code so I just uploaded a screenshot to my server it's located here:

    http://www.soulsdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2...

    Again, any help would be greatly appreciated.
  • Christian Rock Music · 2 years ago
    Hey thanks for the plugin :)
  • holiday elsie · 2 years ago
    thanks for putting the word to wordpress!

    ...but doesn't refresh each day (using wp-votd 3.0 widget with worpress 2.2.1)
  • andryl · 2 years ago
    Glenn,

    I am having a problem getting VOTD plugin 3.5 to display correctly on two sites. If you check www.pitchfords.com and www.hardteaching.com you will see that for some reason it displays with line breaks.

    I haven't changed the display template.

    It displays fine on www.andrewpitchford.com

    Any ideas?

    Andrew
  • malinesky · 2 years ago
    thanks for having this plugin available to everyone! this is definitely in my to-do-list.

    Will let you know if it will work on my site. THanks!
  • Darren Smith · 2 years ago
    Hi. No matter how hard I try this isn't displaying anywhere in my WP website. I am using WP 2.0.4 and plugin 2.6. I am using Firefox - does that have any affect?

    Thanks.
  • Darren Smith · 2 years ago
    Forget it. I'm crazy. It works now.
  • Michael · 1 year ago
    Got the beta and installed as a widget- I do get the VOTD title showing up in the sidebar, however no votd.....
  • Jenny · 1 year ago
    Do you know of a way to only add the verse of the day widget to only one page. If you look at my blog - http://members.thebabyattic.com, the you will see that I have a nav bar at the top with my pages, and one of those pages is "Word for Wednesday" that's where I want the verse of the day to appear - on the page, not the sidebar (or if it has to stay on the sidebar, then I only want it on this page's sidebar). I have no idea how to make that happen? Any ideas?? I love the plugin!
  • Jenny · 1 year ago
    Ok, Ifigured out how to get i on just on page - but the now I would like to increase the font size. I'mnot sure how.

    http://members.thebabyattic.com/?page_id=14/ it's on the top left sidebar
  • Lance · 1 year ago
    I love the subject of life verses. They are each so personal. Mine is...

    Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths. Proverbs 3:5-6

    I also wanted to show you my website www.MyCrossVerse.com. I'm an artist living in Texas and I do custom Christian paintings for the good of His kingdom. Drop me a line and let me know what you think.

    God Bless