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Biblefox Development

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Developing the site and various WordPress plugins.

feature request: printable pages (3 posts)

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  • Avatar Image shawn said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    I was doing a generic demo of the plugin itself for another pastor friend. I had him type in a chapter in the Bible so the reader would show the chapter he requested.

    After I showed him how he could make an activity comment about the scripture the first thing he asked me was how to print out a page showing the scripture on the top, followed by his comment history for that chapter/selection.

    Upon talking about it further we came up with a few other ideas.

    1. Like most people he has a lot of notes in his Bible next to the scriptures themselves. It seemed like a great idea for him to transfer the notes from his Bible to the plugin itself, via the comments fields. Obviously that part works already.

    –ideas
    When he makes a comment about a scripture, he may give some commentary, and also notate related scriptures to the scripture passage he is viewing.

    His idea was to find a way of combining his comments from scripture passages in order to ‘create a sermon’ to preach.

    example:
    Say he has comments on Matthew chapter 1, talking about the birth of Jesus. He may have some notes in there that also relate to the birth of Jesus in the book of John. So he adds the other book reference scriptures to his notes.

    What he wanted was a way to print out a page showing the scripture and comment from Matthew 1, and then have it follow the rabbit trail of his related verses comments into other scriptures. Thus creating a page he could create and print that follows the trail.

    Not sure how feasible this concept is, as it’s just a rough concept right now, but the general idea may be something worth considering. Maybe you could create a hidden ‘relations’ taxonomy to combine the different comment blocks together via the scripture key/value?

  • Avatar Image Richard Venable said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    That’s a great idea. I think what I should do is make Biblefox more like a platform in of itself so ideas like that can be easy to make on your own.

    So perhaps you create your own theme template for the Bible Directory. I could create a template tag function that returns the current Bible reference. I could also create one that returns a list of all the Bible references being mentioned in all the queried posts. With that latter function, you could just add a link to view all of those scriptures.

    Of course that link would have a whole lot of separate Bible references in it, and your theme could decide how it should handle the display of so many Bible references all at once.

  • Avatar Image shawn said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    Having separate Biblefox template directories would really open up a lot of possibilities, esp as the api is more fully developed. It would allow me to style the Biblefox portion completely different from the rest of the site. I do like the idea of the expanded template tags and functions. That would provide me the tools needed to do just about anything I put my mind to.