Development on a shoestring - Latest Comments in Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

Re: Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

Glenn — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 00:35:40 -0000

Hi vetto, this plugin has been updated, please go to http://blog.slaven.net.au/a... for the new version, it should fix your problem.

Re: Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

vetto — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 00:03:08 -0000

in the template. Still no display. No error, no verse...just nothing. Any Ideas where to go to troubleshoot? BTW, thanks allowing this support in the blog post, it is always great to see a contributer stand by his or her contribution.

Re: Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

Glenn — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 04:00:15 -0000

Chris, I'm really not sure, it was never desinged to run like that. I think in that case you may be better off looking at bible gateway's javascript service, you could stick 2 of them on your site.

Re: Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

Chris — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 22:11:40 -0000

Hi, i was wondering, how would you configure this if you wanted to show 2 votd's, say, ESV on one side of my site, and KJV on the other? when I do it, it shows either one or the other on both sides, because it's caching whichever is the active one, and displaying it on both sides

Re: Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

Jason — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:39:03 -0000

disregard. :-) after troubleshooting further, i found that dieloud helped. it couldnt find the file or access the file. looked in www logs and found it was looking in wp-content, not in root. moved the file, forced a refresh and wallah!

thanks, glenn for a great plugin!

Re: Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

Jason — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:14:47 -0000

im just getting a blog set up but cant seem to get the wp_votd() function to display anything. ive tried setting the $force_refresh variable to true - nothing. thoughts?

notes: the plugin is activated, wp 1.5.2, code on sidebar (verse of the day
).

thanks for your help!

Re: Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

David Cintron — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 23:56:20 -0000

great plugin, worked right out of the box :)

Re: Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

Tom Coburn — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:34:56 -0000

anyone know how to do this with straight PHP?

There is a church here in town that wants me to design a website for them.. They don't want a blog, but they want this "Verse of the Day" thing... the NIV version..

so I was just wondering if anyone knew how to do this with straight PHP rather then thru a plugin?

thanks

Re: Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

Jackie — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 23:10:14 -0000

Thank you Glenn!
That was exactly what I needed.
I am slowly but surely getting the hang of Word Press.

Re: Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

Glenn — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:00:58 -0000

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!

Re: Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

Jackie — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 01:14:37 -0000

Please bear with a WP newbie - Exactly how do I control the font that appears in the sidebar?
BTW - installation was flawless. I put it at the top of the sidebar.
Thanks for a awesome plugin.

Re: Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

Glenn — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:58:21 -0000

You need to put the code in one of your template files, i.e in the /wp-content/themes/

Usually it will be on the sidebar, but it can go where ever you like.

Re: Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

wings — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:27:57 -0000

I put the download into content/plugins. I activated it. Nothing came up. I do not know where to put the code..... I use Word press 1.5.1.3 ver.

Re: Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

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Re: Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

Glenn — Sun, 22 May 2005 06:56:53 -0000

25 for a solution.

Re: Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

Neil — Sat, 21 May 2005 18:06:33 -0000

When I put the code on my blog page it gives this error message:

Warning: fopen(d:\inetpub\cfotos\wp\wp-content/votdcache.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in d:\inetpub\cfotos\wp\wp-content\plugins\wp-votd-plugin.php on line 94

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in d:\inetpub\cfotos\wp\wp-content\plugins\wp-votd-plugin.php on line 95

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in d:\inetpub\cfotos\wp\wp-content\plugins\wp-votd-plugin.php on line 96

Re: Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

Stephen — Sat, 21 May 2005 08:14:43 -0000

Everything works! Your plugin is really great. I have one question: How do I make the text of the Bible verse fit into a format that I want?

Re: Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

Jonathan — Tue, 03 May 2005 17:16:25 -0000

Hey everybody,

I wasn't aware that there were so many people interested in applying a verse-of-the-day to their sites! Kudos to you, Glenn, for the plugin. I'm at work right now, but will be downloading WP 1.5 tonight when I get home. I'll also be installing this plugin!

Thanks again

Re: Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

Aaron — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 09:28:10 -0000

That was it! I was expecting it to refresh immediately. I also change the refresh rate to 4 hours as mentioned in above. Excellant work!

Re: Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

Glenn — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 20:54:28 -0000

wp_votd('niv');

Also, remember, the script only upates once a day, unless you set the second parameter to true (see comment 33 for example), so if you change the version you won't see the change reflected on the site until the scrpit updates.

Re: Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

Aaron — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 16:24:37 -0000

Great idea and implementation. I am unable too change bibles though, even though I change the abbreviation in the code I inserted and even changed it via the Plugin Editor.

Any thoughts?

Re: Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

Glenn — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 07:31:19 -0000

D:\davensusan\wp-content\votdcache.php

If this is a hosting account, talk to your support people, they should be able to step you though it (or more likely, do it for you). If not, and this is a machine you have direct access to, http://www.microsoft.com/te... has instructions on how to set file permissions. Basically you want to give full control to the IIS user, which is usually called IUSR_[computername].

I have no idea why Microsoft decided to make the setting of file permissions be so difficult, but that's the way it is I'm afraid.

Re: Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

Dave — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 23:54:56 -0000

I'm using WP 1.5. I installed the plugin and wrote into my sidebar template, and I got the same error message as Mena:

Warning: fopen(D:\davensusan\wp-content/votdcache.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in D:\davensusan\wp-content\plugins\wp-votd-plugin.php on line 82

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in D:\davensusan\wp-content\plugins\wp-votd-plugin.php on line 83

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in D:\davensusan\wp-content\plugins\wp-votd-plugin.php on line 84

Like Fr. Daniel, I know nothing about writing code. I would just like to have my sidebar look like yours. I'm told that Mena's solution doesn't apply to me because that's for a Unix server, and I'm on a Windows server.

Re: Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

Mike Rosowski — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 03:27:15 -0000

Thanks for the extra info Glenn. #27 is what it took for it to work for me. I had to create the file,give permissions to it, change in template to wp_votd('esv',true); then it worked and I could change back.

I am excited to have it working. Thanks for the plugin.

Re: Verse of the Day WordPress Plugin

Mena — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:30:25 -0000

It's a no go for me. I can't get it to work even with the fix you gave JOhn.:(