Bible SuperSearch

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   Expanding Search Form - Contracted

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   Expanding Search Form - Expanded

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   Classic Search Form - User Friendly 2

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   Search Results

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   Reference Look Up

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   Parallel Bibles

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   Strong's Numbers with Hover Definitions

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   Strong's Number Search

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   Easy Text Copying, with Preset and Custom Options

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    Paragraph Display

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    Passage Display

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    Verse Display

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    Dialog: Emergency Bible Help (SOS)

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    Dialog: Getting Started with the Bible

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    Dialog: BSS Quick Start Guide

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    Dialog: Link to a Search

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    Dialog: Share Results

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    Dialog: Settings

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    Changing the Language

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    Dialog: Bible Downloads

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    Matching Options

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    Match All Words

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    Match Any Word

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    Match Words within 5 Verses (Verse Proximity)

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    Boolean Search

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    Boolean Search with Verse Proximity

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    Plugin Configs: General

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    Plugin Configs: Bibles

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    Plugin Configs: Advanced

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    Plugin Configs: Widgets

How do I only enable certain Bibles?

Go to the Settings page, and uncheck ‘Enable All Bibles’
You will be given a list of Bibles to enable or disable individually.

Please include the (ABC) Bible

We only offer ‘Shareable’ Bibles. These are Bibles that anyone can legally copy and redistribute, for non-commercial purposes, without needing permission from the publisher.
If you would like to use a proprietary Bible with Bible SuperSearch, you will need to install our API on your server, then properly license the text from the publisher.
Request the text in an Excel file, and the importer within the API can import it for you.

How do I add more Bibles?

First, you will need to install our API on your server.
Please see instructions below for details.
Then, use the Bible importer within the API to add the desired Bibles.

How do I translate the user interface into my language?

If you are able to provide us with a fluent translation, we will include it for FREE.
Please contact us for details.

How do I change the appearance of Bible SuperSearch?

You can select a different skin (interface) in the settings.

Also, to make the software better match your WordPress theme, uncheck ‘Override Styles’

How do I get a custom skin (interface) developed?

Please contact us directly. https://www.biblesupersearch.com/contact/

How do I run Bible SuperSearch entirely on my website?

You can accomplish this by installing our API on your webiste.

Please see below for details.

How do I install the Bible SuperSearch API?

Install our API and run Bible SuperSearch entirely on your website.
The API can be downloaded here:

https://www.biblesupersearch.com/downloads/

Once installed, you will have to point this plugin to your API install.
Settings => Bible SuperSearch => Advanced => API URL => Insert the URL to your API in this box.

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= 5.5.0
* Added bookmarks dialog
* History items now persist between page loads
* Config settings to control what languages show in language list
* Random chapter / Verse now repopulates URL/page title to returned item
* Shortcut aliases are now included (and translated) in the quick start dialog
* Side browsing buttons and configs
* Config to default search to landing reference if blank.
* New User Interface translations:
* Portuguese
* German
* Thai

= 5.4.0
* Dialog improvements and better responsiveness
* Using native share dialog on mobile devices
* New history dialog
* Strong’s hover tooltip improvements
** Option to open via clicking
** Hover intent delay with configurable threshold
* Passage autocomplete
* Touchscreen swipe to navigate between chapters and search

= 5.3.0
* Added config to control maximum parallel Bibles based on screen width
* Added new ‘Verse as Passage’ display
* Hindi UI translation
* WP 6.4 support

= 5.2.9
* Fixed total breakage

= 5.2.6
* Added default text display option
* Added more debugging in attempt to fix misc bug

= 5.2.4
* Added advanced configs Scroll Top Padding and Debug
* WP 6.3 support
* Added custom select menus (these only appear in one custom interface)
* Fixed scrolling to scroll down to results when using paging/browsing buttons
* Fixed a bug in the navigation / hash parsing where having a . in a
book name was causing the book to not be found.

= 5.2.0
* Added “Remove Bible” to paralell Bible selector
* Added ability to have multiple default Bibles
* Added descripive text for Strongs, Red Letter, Highlight and Italics
* Added UI language support: Latvian, Russian
* Bug fix: Capitalizing first letter in language name on UI.
* Bug fix: Clearing out certain form fields when using random chapter or verse.
* Misc bug other fixes.

= 5.1.2
* Fixed setting default Bible with single Bible selector when clearing form
* Added ability to specify Bible book list as part of locale translation file.
* Config to select Bible Book list langauge source – defaults to selected UI language

= 5.1.1
* Adding ability to competely hide extra buttons
* Adding new custom interface
* Adding landing reference config

5.1.1

• Updated “How to Display Extra Buttons” config to completely hide these buttons.
• Adding new custom interface
• Adding landing passage config

5.1.0

• Improved Bible download page.
• Admin – now indicating which Bibles are intended for research only.
• New Interface: Browsing with Book Selector
• New Interface: Browsing with Book Selector, Horizontal Form
• Added UI language support: Chinese (Traditional and Simplifed)

5.0.2

• Improved error handling when AJAX calls fail
• Fixed bugs with the Advanced search

5.0.1

• Suppressed some experimental, unpublished functionality that was causing fatal errors on some webhosts
• Confirmed WordPress 6.0 support

5.0.0

• Added new format button options
• Added copy link dialog
• Added (instant) copy button
• Added selector for Bible list sorting
• Updated Spanish UI tranlation
• Bug fix: Share copy now using same alert dialog as EZ copy
• Bug fix: Better fix for the only one [biblesupersearch] shortcode error.

4.5.2

• Added format options for the copying text.
• Added Romanian UI translation
• Improvement: Added ability to toggle keyword highlighting.
• Improvement: Added ‘Clear Form’ button.
• Improvement: Displaying short name of Bibles with long name when in parallel mode.
• Improvement: Added clean URL for many search queries.
• Replaced paragraph toggle with paragraph / passage / verse selector (Stylable format buttons only).
• Bug fix: Replaced unicode icons with ones that display on mobile devices.
• Bug fix: Fixed ASV display issue {{selah
• Bug fix: Landing page wasn’t saving when selecting NONE
• Bug fix: fixed some class naming issues likely to cause conflict with WP themes
• Bug fix: Using modern clipboard API when available.
• Bug fix: Start menu links doing search instead of pulling passage.
• Bug fix: Fixed missing config variable issue when initializing localization.
• Workaround to duplicate shortcode issue.

4.4.3

• Improvement: Share text format: put URL and title at the bottom.
• Fixed responsive issues on expanding form
• Fixed off-centered checkbox on the toggle buttons
• Fixed misc cross-browser issues
• Fixed issues when sending a request from a form/widget with a single request field to a form with both reference and search fields.
• Fixed clean URLs now working when using the expanding form.
• Bump WordPress support to 5.8.
• Confirmed working in PHP 8.0.

4.4.2

• Fixed issues with RTL detection on Bibles
• Fixed poor documentation of plugin shortcodeds
• Fixed broken shortcode attributes

4.4.1

• Fixed breakage when advanced toggle disabled

4.4.0

• Added UI language option
• Added ability to display help / download dialog buttons separately from formatting buttons.
• Added ‘Minimal with Parallel Bible’ skin
• Added print button
• Added new Basic help dialog
• Added new share link dialog

4.3.3

• Bugfix: Fixed issues with responsiveness on the Bible SOS, Start, and Download dialogs
• Bugfix: Fixed display issues with Download button

4.3.2

• Bugfix: Fixed breakage in the ‘limit search to’ presets. When one of the preset values were selected, it would revert to ‘Passage(s) Listed Below (or above), with the passage set to ‘value’
• Improved plugin description

4.3.1

• Bugfix: New download dialog breaks when requesting two or more Bibles, but leaving the last Bible selector empty.

4.3.0

• Added widget
• Added dialog for downloading Bibles
• Added Escape (ESC) to all dialogs
• Bugfix: Fixed Bible sort mapping

4.2.8

• Fixed total breakage / no display on EZ-Copy

4.2.7

• Fixed Bible selected breakage on expanding form when contracting the form.

4.2.6

• Added download Bible limitation as a quick fix to download issues on shared hosting

4.2.5

• Bugfix: Force refresh of statics data if previous load failed.

4.2.3

• Bugfix / Improvement: Statics are now loaded from the local cache, eliminating an AJAX call at page load.

4.2.2

• Bugfix: Fixed more issues with root URL affecting websites hosted on WordPress.com

4.2.1

• Bugfix: Fixed issue discovering root URL in the client software, affecting websites hosted on WordPress.com

4.2.0

• Added ability to group Bibles by language, and added a config for this to this WP plugin
• Added Bible SOS, Bible Start Guide dialogs
• Changed Strongs Definition dialogs to stay open longer, allowing a user to copy and paste the Strong’s text

4.1.1

• Fixed bug preventing the Bible selector from resizing responsivly

4.1.0

• Added [biblesupersearch_downloads] shortcode for displaying a page from which to download Bibles
• Added more embedded shortcode documentation.

4.0.1

• Bugfix: Selection of book language now based on primary Bible

4.0.0

• Added: Expanding form
• Added: Inline Strong’s Definitions – Displayed at top of search results when search includes Strong’s number(s).
• Added: Disambiguation links – For when using the single request field but requesting something that could be either a keyword or a book of the Bible.
• Added: More config options and expanded config page into tabs.
• Added: Official release of our API source code.
• Bugfix: Fixed positioning of strongs dialog when inclosed in a positiioned element

2.7.7

• Bugfix: Fixed another issue with destination page options list

2.7.6

• Bugfix: Fixed a couple issues with destination page options list

2.7.5

• Bugfix: Fixed Internet Explorer issue causing passage field to be ignored
• Added Destination Page option

2.7.2

• Gutenberg editor support (quick fix)

2.7.1

• Bugfix: Fixed issues with Strong’s dialogs causing breakage in Internet Explorer and Edge

2.7.0

• Added Strong’s Numbers with definitions (KJV)
• Added support for Italicised words (KJV / RVG)
• Added support for Words of Christ in Red (KJV / RVG)
• Misc bugfixes

2.6.5

• Adding several new interfaces
• Misc bug fixes and formatting fixes

2.6.2

• Bugfix: checking custom API URL to make sure it’s valid

2.6.1

• Bugfix: Allowing for cURL or allow_url_fopen for loading statics on options page

2.6.0

• Initial release of official WordPress plugin.
• Complete rebuild of legacy Bible SuperSearch (version 2.2.x) code.