PrayTime.me Bible Verses

We recently launched the website PrayTime.me with the aim of creating a community for believers and those seeking spiritual peace.

Wishing to make the Bible available directly on our website for free — and finding no viable way to do so using existing tools or plugins — we decided
to develop this plugin to distribute at no cost to anyone running a site on this platform.

We thank you for your donation and wish you great success in your mission to share the Bible with everyone, free of charge.

Although the plugin is free, we kindly ask you to enable the Credit checkbox which is found in settings.

On activation the plugin creates three tables (wp_praybive_bibles, wp_praybive_books, wp_praybive_verses, using your table
prefix) and imports the bundled SQL (data/bibles-data.txt) into them: 14 translations, 66 books and about 435,000
verses.

The import is too large for a single request, so it runs in short batches in the background (WP-Cron).
Progress is shown under Tools → PrayTime.me Bible Verses, where an administrator can also run it in the browser. On
sites where WP-Cron is disabled, use the button there or run wp praytime-me-bible-verses import.

Usage

• [praytime_bible_verses] — a reader with translation, book and chapter pickers and previous/next chapter links.
• [praytime_bible_verses reference="John 3:16"] — a single verse in the default translation (BSB unless changed in the settings).
• [praytime_bible_verses reference="Psalm 23" bible="KJV"] — a whole chapter.
• [praytime_bible_verses reference="Romans 8:28-30" bible="KJV,WEB,YLT"] — translations side by side.
• [praytime_bible_verses reference="Genesis 1:1" bible="all"] — every translation.
• [praytime_bible_verses book="John" chapter="1" verses="1-5"] — the same as reference, as separate attributes.
• [praytime_bible_verses reference="John 1" browse="yes"] — the reader, opened at a chosen chapter.
• [praytime_verse_of_the_day] — a verse that changes every day; also accepts bible and show_info.
• show_info="no" / show_info="yes" — hides or shows the translation descriptions, overriding the setting.

Translations (bible=”…”): BSB, KJV, ASV, AKJV, CPDV, DBT, DRB, ERV, JPS / WEY, NHEB, SLT, WBT, WEB, YLT.

Settings

Tools → PrayTime.me Bible Verses → Settings holds the site-wide defaults; shortcode attributes override them.

• Translations: the default translation, which translations are enabled, whether translation descriptions are shown,
  and the chapter the reader opens at.
• Appearance: accent colour, light / dark / automatic colour scheme, flowing or one-verse-per-line text, verse
  numbers, and stacked or side-by-side columns when comparing up to three translations.
• Verse of the day: rotate through an editable list of references, or pick a random verse each day.
• Reader links: addresses like /bible/kjv/john/3/ on a chosen reader page (needs a non-plain permalink structure).
• Sharing: Copy and Share buttons on passages, with click-to-copy verse numbers.
• Credit: an optional “This plugin is freely offered by PrayTime.me” line linking to https://praytime.me/. It is off
  until the site owner enables it.
• Data: keep the Bible texts and settings when the plugin is deleted.

Uninstall

Deleting the plugin from the Plugins screen drops its three tables and its settings, unless “Keep the Bible texts
and settings” is enabled in the settings. Deactivating always keeps them.