Scripturizer 1.7 Stable Release: a New Home and a New Name June 21, 2007
Posted by LO in Development, Releases.trackback
Announcing Scripturizer 1.7 stable, renamed “The Holy Scripturizer” and moved to its new home at the WP plugins directory.
A New Home for Scripturizer
A few months ago WordPress opened its new plugins directory in an effort to centralize and standardize plugin development. It has taken me a bit to catch up with the Joneses, but today I transfered the newly updated Scripturizer 1.7, stable version, to this new directory.
A New Name: “The Holy Scripturizer”
Due to conflicts with other similarly-named plugins, I edited Scripturizer’s name to “The Holy Scripturizer.” I like this name better than the original, for it highlights a seldom-heard aspect about God’s Word–it is holy.
A New Release: 1.7 Stable
Along with a new home comes a newly updated code base. This latest release (download 1.7 stable via Scripturizer’s new home) includes the following important updates:
- Support for the Septuagint (LXX), New Revised Standard Version (NRSV), and New English Bible (NET) versions.
- Compliance with the new Bibleref standards for semantic Bible markup. (Learn more about Bibleref.)
While users of the 1.7 beta version are not at risk, all users of all previous versions are encouraged to update to 1.7 stable.
What are the implications of these updates?
All further development and support of the Holy Scripturizer plugin will be facilitated through the new plugins directory. So, please direct all support requests through the proper channels at the new home.
The German version of Scripturizer will also be migrated to the new plugin directory.
What about this site (scripturizer.wordpress.com)?
I will continue to post the latest Scripturizer development news here. So make sure to subscribe to this blog’s feed to keep track of the latest announcements.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this plugin! I’ve installed it (so far) into two blogs: My own the invisible (invisible.heavenlytrain.com) and my friend’s see-through faith (stf.heavenlytrain.com). I’m mastering these two blogs. I’ll also install it pretty soon to my bible-photoblog, cornerstone (kulmakivi.com) and my friend’s sermon blog (pulpit.heavenlytrain.com).
about the internationality – for my photoblog I’d love a possibility to link to a Finnish Bible version, too… (even though my blogs are in English) but 1933/38 version, not the new one! There are a few webservices for it, but I don’t know how would they work with this plugin… And sadly, of course, all the instructions for the services are in Finnish! Any ideas?
Hi eija,
Thank you for your encouragement.
As for a Finnish version, I am thinking through how to add more international support into the Scripturizer. I am looking into adding support for http://www.bibleserver.com, which looks like a major European-based Bible site which I recently discovered.
I have two big problems which make international support difficult: First, I only speak English. Second, for each new language I have to add a custom table of Bible book names and abbreviations so that I can map the English book names to the non-English ones.
I had a German-speaking friend help with the German Scripturizer. If you would like to help create a Finnish version, send me an e-mail.
Two suggestions: it seems that the Scripturizer recognizes a hyphen as a valid mark between verses or chapters (John 3:16-18), but not an endash (John 3:16–18), which is the appropriate character according to most systems. See here: http://tinyurl.com/3×7dpu.
It also supports a colon (John 3:16) but not a period (John 3.16). See here: http://tinyurl.com/32wjpt.
Would you consider adding support for this?
Thanks!
I have to say this one awesome plugin for a christian site. I have installed it on two sites and we LOVE it!
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Thank you so much and keep up the good work.
Thanks for this plugin. It’s very well made and so helpful! I’m using it here: http://downeyubf.com
I have two friendly suggestions for the rollover tool tips:
1. If the passage is a little long and the link is near the top of the page, the top of the tool tip is cut off by the browser window (and there is no way to up and see it since I’m already at the top of the page. Would be great if the tool tip somehow adjusted its position to stay within the browser window. Maybe this is not possible, but if it is it would be great.
2. It would also be great if the tooltips could be in other translations than ESV. ESV is fine, but we are using NIV.
Thanks again for your hard work and labor in the Lord!
Hi Jonathon,
1. Yes, this is a bit of an annoyance. However, I haven’t thought of a simple way to get around that problem.
2. The publishers behind the ESV offer a powerful API that makes the ToolTip and Show/Hide features possible. If it wasn’t for the API we couldn’t have those features at all. The problem is, the ESV is the only translation which as that type of API.
@Philip The issue is being addressed in the forthcoming version. Thanks for the suggestion