Bible Linking on Church Websites

Joined: 11/28/2008

We're about to re-launch our church web site. For the new web site, we will be posting the sermon notes (a half sheet of paper that everyone gets in the service) online along with the audio of the sermon.

My question is: how are people handling Bible links on church web sites? At first, I was just going to link everything to Bible Gateway, but then I thought about doing a custom page that provided links to a couple different Bible sites (eBible.com, bible.crosswalk.com, and Bible Gateway) to start.

Anyone have any opinions, experiences, scripts?

Jack L. Wolfgang II
Volunteer WebServant, First Christian Church-Tallahassee, FL & Tri-State Christian Fellowship

Joined: 11/28/2008
Many of the Bible sites have

Many of the Bible sites have different versions which is handy. I would link to whichever site you think the people will find most convenient. Maybe do some trialling with some beta-testers! /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

Paul Davey
Whitford Church
"Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." Romans 10:13
"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified

skenow
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There's a great javascript we

There's a great javascript we use - Scripturizer.js. Just load that in your header and it will create links or popups based on how the parameters you use. Find it here.

I adjusted part of the regular expressions because it uses 'Thes?' as a partial match for Thessalonians, which will give you some issues with things like 'The 2nd Sunday'. There is a link to the demo where you can see the different options. You can select which version to link to, whether to open a new window or in the same window, or to have a popup (You're limited to one version for this)

Joined: 11/28/2008
skenow @ Jan 30 2007,
QUOTE(skenow @ Jan 30 2007, 09:00 PM)
There's a great javascript we use - Scripturizer.js. Just load that in your header and it will create links or popups based on how the parameters you use. Find it here.

I adjusted part of the regular expressions because it uses 'Thes?' as a partial match for Thessalonians, which will give you some issues with things like 'The 2nd Sunday'. There is a link to the demo where you can see the different options. You can select which version to link to, whether to open a new window or in the same window, or to have a popup (You're limited to one version for this)

Hey, there's a WP plug-in for it! When you said Javascript, I wasn't thrilled; but the WP plug-in could be a whole different story!

Edit: After surfing, I found the new official DEVELOPMENT page for the WP Plugin: http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/scriptur...cripturizer.php

Edit #2: That's the dev page. Let's see if I can find an official download page.

Edit #3: https://scripturizer.wordpress.com/

Jack L. Wolfgang II
Volunteer WebServant, First Christian Church-Tallahassee, FL & Tri-State Christian Fellowship

skenow
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Yep - I failed to mention it

Yep - I failed to mention it has several different versions available - the javascript is most universal. Hope you find the WP plug-in as beneficial as we do the script.