New WordPress Plugin Using the ESV Web Service

Chris Roberts announces the availability of a WordPress plugin that pulls in the text of the ESV when you use markup to indicate a Scripture reference. It saves the passage in a database, so future references to the same passage don’t need to access the web service.

The plugin has two styles:

Using the markup like: [bible]John 3:16[/bible] allows a tooltip-style Scripture reference:

A tooltip appears when you move your mouse over the link

Using markup like [bibleblock]John 3:16[/bibleblock] results in a paragraph containing the text. You can style the paragraph however you like; we took these images from Chris’s website:

A paragraph containing the text of John 3:16 as supplied by the ESV web service

Installation is just like any other WordPress plugin–you install it into your plugins folder and activate it in your blog’s Administration section.

He’s released the code under the GPL, which means that you can tinker with it if you’re a developer.

Visit Chris’s site for more details and to download the plugin.

Update September 30, 2005: Chris writes that he’s posted an updated version of the plugin that fixes an incompatibility with Internet Explorer.

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5 Responses to “New WordPress Plugin Using the ESV Web Service”

  1. Development on a Shoestring Says:
    September 26th, 2005 at 10:29 am

    ESV Wordpress Plugin

    Chris Roberts has come up with a great Wordpress Plugin, using the ESV web services. What it does is take a bible reference and go and get the text of that reference and display it as either a tooltip, or as a block of text under the reference (you c…

  2. Godverbs Says:
    September 27th, 2005 at 7:43 pm

    ESV Plugin for WordPress

    Many thanks go out to Chris for his work on the latest Bible plugin for WordPress.  Of course, it uses my favorite translation, the ESV, and has a couple of very nice features.  One is the ability to display the entire text of a passage in a…

  3. The LOdown Says:
    October 11th, 2005 at 10:39 pm

    Scripturizer Remix

    Scripturizer is a super simple WordPress plugin for automatically turning Scripture references into hyperlinks that point to online Bible sites. My new Remix version adds an administration options page which makes Scripturizer easier to install and co…

  4. How to Cite the ESV in Your Blog Says:
    January 18th, 2007 at 4:20 pm

    A few months ago, Rebecca wrote us and asked how to cite the ESV in blog posts. You can find the official answer on the ESV Copyright page (also in printed ESVs). A blog falls under the “non-saleable media” clause.

  5. Scripturizer Plugin “Remix” Says:
    January 18th, 2007 at 4:20 pm

    Laurence O. has released a WordPress plugin that automatically links to and displays passages from the ESV when you mention a Bible reference on your blog. In some ways it’s similar to Chris Roberts’s plugin that we talked about a