DLOGAN.NET

Something cool’s going on at MinTheGap. I can’t wait to see it, how about you?

Okay, I’ve finished my plugin and the options page is about 90% done. I know, I know, you can’t wait for it to be done. Neither can I ;-). I’m making the options page extremely low tech friendly to allow even the less techno-savy to configure everything. You will not need to know Cascading Style Sheets or any other type of mumbo-jumbo to setup this plugin exactly the way you want it (including colors). I’ve bult in a color chooser to help you select your colors, have boxes to click to make items bold, italic, or underline, and even allow you to determine what is shown when you mouse over the verse. Just to make sure you have everything perfect before you save the new options, there is an example verse in the options page that updates on the fly to show the verse exactly the way your settings state. That way you can configure everything perfectly, then click save to make it live ;-).

I personally would love the ability to quote the bible on my website automatically without running into all types of restrictions on number of queries per day, etc; simply by referencing the passage. While I found a great plug-in for Wordpress that does much of what I wanted it relies on ESV’s website which has a number of restrictions on the use of passages. While my website meets the license restrictions for use, I’m not sure if I always will. As a result I wanted a more robust solution that I could always use. Since I couldn’t find one, I figured I’d make one myself ;-).

Since the KJV is in the public domain and freely available on the net (and it happens to be one of my favorite versions), I figured I’d start with that. While I was prepared to convert the KJV from text to a format my MYSQL database could play with, I fortunately found someone who had already done that. As a result he saved me a ton of time ;-). Look here in the coming days for a cool new Wordpress plug-in. It shouldn’t take me TOO long to get a simple version running. (I suppose those are probably famous last words).