Coding and having fun with YouVersion and WordPress
November 21, 2008
Over the last month or so I have had the privilege to work with the Digerati at LifeChurch.tv on a plugin for WordPress. It allows WordPress authors to link scripture references to YouVersion, an online Bible, produced by LifeChurch.tv. You even have the option to have a text bubble appear over your reference with the verses you are referencing. You can read the official announcement here, http://blog.youversion.com/?p=138.
It’s interesting how the whole project came about. My old boss who hired me at my current job, contacted me out of the blue a few months ago. I had been having a rough week, and flippantly asked if he knew of any work at LifeChurch. He passed on my information and the team found out that I had been spending a portion of my time at Fielder with WordPress development. They thought I was a good fit for the project and here we are.
This project has been a chance for me to try and mesh two of my passions, serving Christ and programming, into a common goal. Paul’s words to the Colossians describe it best, Colossians 1:28-29.
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November 22nd, 2008 at 11:04 am
very cool plugin, except that it generates this error when the plugin is enabled on my site. i didn’t know where to send this note so, here it is…
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Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 500001 bytes) in /home/transit1/public_html/wp-includes/class-snoopy.php on line 894
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i haven’t done any further testing by messing with plugin combinations/conflicts. i may try that at some point, but just giving you all a heads up.
December 10th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Thanks for the Workpress plugin, I’m diggin it.
I’m having a problem with the version list. After hitting the Update YouVersion Options button on the plugin admin page, the Bible Version selection list produces a very small list of versions. I think the list was much more extensive before I press the button. My guess is that you are using a different/ hard coded list in there somewhere that it switches to after updating the options.
December 10th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Hey there
I’m using your plugin on a new blog of mine, and all in all it works sweet. However I’d rather it showed the verse inline – can I do this? I really don’t want a popup … I want the verse inline with maybe a tag line below saying “scripture provided by YouVersion”
Thanks
K.
December 10th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Due to copyright issues, only those translations in the public domain can be used with the verse bubble. However, if you only want the link back to YouVersion, you can use any of the translations YouVersion has rights for.
If you have suggestions or problems, you can post those at http://getsatisfaction.com/youversion/products/youversion_wordpress_plugin.