The Word Widget
The plugin provides a widget which you can place into one of the widget areas provided by your theme (in the WordPress admin area: Appearance | Widgets).
The widget configuration retrieves the list of available Bible editions of the current year remotely from https://bible2.net and lets you select one Bible edition. On each day, the widget retrieves the two verses for the day from bible2.net and displays them.
Project Bible 2.0
Project Bible 2.0 collects cross-references between selected Bible verses, formats the verses nicely and publishes two cross-referenced verses for each day of the year in more than 20 languages, available for free download and as a remote service.
Bible Editions Available
Dated 2022-01-24 – for latest information, see https://bible2.net/download/bible-editions-available/.
For 2022, The Word is available in the following Bible editions and languages:
- af Bybel in Afrikaans (1983-vertaling)
- ar كتاب الحياة : الترجمة العربية الجديدة (Holy Bible, New Arabic Version, Ketab El Hayat)
- cfm Bible Thianghlim (Chin Standard Bible), see https://bible2.net/cfm
- cim Zimbrisch (German Cimbrian dialect), see https://bible2.net/cim
- da Bibelen (Danish)
- de Hoffnung für Alle (German)
- de Leonberger Bibel (German)
- de Neue Evangelistische Übersetzung (German)
- de Schlachter 2000 (German)
- en English Standard Version
- es Reina-Valera 1995 (Spanish)
- fr Segond 21 (French)
- ga An Bíobla Naofa 1981 (Gaelic)
- he ספר הבריתות 2004 (Hebrew)
- hu Karoli 1990 (Hungarian)
- it Nuova Riveduta 1994 (Italian)
- pfl-x-suedsaar Südsaarländisch (Southern Saarlandian, a kind of Pfälzisch = Palatinate), see https://bible2.net/pfl-x-suedsaar
- pl Biblia Tysiąclecia (Polski Polish)
- pt Portuguese Bíblia Livre (Portuguese)
- ro Cornilescu 2014 (Romanian), see https://bible2.net/ro
- ru Юбилейная Библия Jubiläums-Bibel (русский Russian)
- swg Bibel für Schwoba (Schwäbisch Swabian swg), see https://bible2.net/swg
- th สมาคมพระคริสตธรรมไทย 1971 (Thai Holy Bible 1971)
- tr Kutsal Kitap 2001
- uz-Cyrl Ўзбек тилидаги Муқаддас Китоб 2012
- uz-Latn O‘zbek tilidagi Muqaddas Kitob 2012
- vi Vietnamese Bible (1934)
- zh-Hans 中文标准译本(简化字) (Simplified Chinese)
- zh-Hant 中文标准译本(繁體字) (Traditional Chinese)
System Requirements
- PHP: tested with 7.4.3. Using an anonymous function requires 5.3.
- SimpleXML: the widget needs the “SimpleXML” PHP library. If it is not available, the widget configuration (see “Appearance | Widgets” in the Installation chapter) will show an error message. For PHP 5.6, the commands
sudo apt-get install php5.6-xmlandservice apache2 restartmay help (usephp7.0-xmlfor PHP 7.0).
Adapting the Layout
The widget output uses the following CSS classes which you may adapt in your stylesheet (CSS):
- TheWord
- TL
- Parol
- IL
- L
- SL
An example css file is included in the plugin zip file. It includes CSS to either show the verses with line breaks (on a wider display) or without the line breaks (on a smaller display). You may need to adapt the rules, depending on the actual width of your widget area.
For WordPress Developers
If you’re expert in the hottest WordPress development stuff like the “Block editor”, and you could imagine to maintain this plugin – you’re welcome!
Unfortunately, I don’t follow these new WordPress trends any more (I moved sites from WordPress to Symfony resp. Hugo).
So as of 2022-01, the WordPress admin dashboard supports configuring the plugin in “legacy” mode only. Maybe sometime they even obsolete this?
Plugin License
The WordPress plugin is licensed under GPLv2 or later.
License for Bible Texts (got remotely per day)
The license conditions for the Bible texts (verses) are defined by the publisher of the respective Bible edition. They are contained in the .twd XML files, and are also shown in https://bible2.net/copyright/.
License for Related Bible References (got remotely per day)
The project Bible 2.0 provides pairs of related Bible references.
The Word associates one pair of Bible references with a certain day, respectively.
The association of Bible references into pairs and of such pairs to days of a certain year is subject to
License “Creative Commons 4.0”
<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/>
(Attribution, ShareAlike)
With each publication, the following statement with a link to https://bible2.net must be available for the user (e.g. by adding a link to the copyright page):
Association of Bible references by project Bible 2.0
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.