Link To Bible

Link To Bible links any bible reference (e.g. “Genesis 20:1” (en) or “Lukas 5,3” (de)) you write in a post automatically to the appropriate bible verse(s) at bibleserver.com.

You can hereby choose from many different bible versions in different languages. (See https://www.bibleserver.com/webmasters for all availabe languages and bible versions.)

Bibleserver.com detects language specific the most common notations of bible references.

Notes

• This plugin uses the webservice of bibleserver.com
• The links to bibleserver.com are added while saving a post, because the requests to bibleserver.com are limited per day and site. For posts created before activating ‘Link-To-Bible’ and never saved since then, the links to bibleserver.com are added when the post is viewed the first time.
• Changing an already linked bible reference (e.g. “Gen 1,2” -> “Gen 2,1”), saving the post will automatically update the link to bibleserver.com.

Privacy

The following information is transmitted to bibleserver.com to add the links:

• Your API-Key
• The URL of your blog
• The selected bible version
• The text of your post including all markups (and may be content or markup added by other plugins or themes)
• The version of this plugin, the version of your wordpress installation and the php version running your wordpress installation

For more information see the privacy statement of bibleserver.com: https://www.bibleserver.com/webmasters/#privacy

License

• This plugin is licensed under the GPLv3. (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html). You can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial blog.
• It is published with the explicit permission of bibleserver.com (ERF Medien e.V.)

Translation

Although the bible versions at bibleserver.com are available in many different languages, ‘Link To Bible’ itself is just available in English and German. If you would like to contribute a translation for another language, please contact info@bibleserver.com .

Known bugs

• With WordPress 5+ errors / warnings announced by bibleserver.com are not shown in admin panel.
  (https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/377492/admin-notices-are-not-shown-in-save-post-hook-with-wp5)