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Each day, a verse from the King James Version (KJV) is elegantly presented over a unique background, the same verse on every site running the widget, so your visitors share a true verse of the day. These traditional or modern scenes are generated by AI and served in Google's efficient WebP format, featuring several animated images and more than 60 static background images. Now, with ChatGPT powered language translation, you can provide these verses in over 100 languages, making it easy to inspire a global audience. While many tools like Google Translate prioritize modern readability, this plugin utilizes ChatGPT to translate the King James Version (KJV) English Bible text into over 100 languages. This approach aims to maintain a more formal phrasing and emphasis, aligning with the traditional and often literal style of the KJV itself. Verse of the Day Widget for WP includes two distinct widgets optimized for different placements: a header widget and a compact sidebar widget.<\/p>\n\n<p>Check out the live demos to see both widgets in action: <a href=\"https:\/\/wheresthatbibleverse.com\/sidebar-demo\/\">Sidebar Demo<\/a> \n<a href=\"https:\/\/wheresthatbibleverse.com\/header-demo\/\">Header Demo<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Key Features:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Daily Bible Verses:<\/strong> Automatically updates each day with a KJV verse chosen from a curated library of 75 verses bundled right inside the plugin, no external verse service required. Every site displays the same verse on the same date, and the selection never repeats on consecutive days. More verses are added as the widget is updated.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Multilingual Support:<\/strong> Powered by ChatGPT, the widget now offers Bible verses in over 100 languages, ensuring accessibility for users around the world.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Animated Backgrounds:<\/strong> Choose to display verses over beautiful, AI-generated animated WebP backgrounds. Options include using only animated images, only static images, or a mix of both for a more engaging experience.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beautiful Nature Photos:<\/strong> Each verse is displayed over a high-quality, AI-generated nature image, providing a visually appealing experience.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Extensive Background Library:<\/strong> Featuring several animated images and more than 60 static background images for a rich and varied visual experience.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Font Customization:<\/strong> Personalize the widget's appearance by choosing from 18 professional fonts, including Roboto, Open Sans, Inter, Lato, Source Sans Pro, Raleway, Montserrat, Nunito, EB Garamond, Merriweather, Playfair Display, Lora, Crimson Text, Roboto Mono, Source Code Pro, Fira Code, Poppins, and Quicksand.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dual Widget Design:<\/strong> Comes with two specialized widgets\u2014one designed for prominent header placement and another optimized for sidebars, ensuring a perfect fit for your theme's layout. <\/li>\n<li><strong>Shortcode Support:<\/strong> Includes separate, reliable shortcodes for both the header and sidebar widgets ([votd_header_widget] and [votd_sidebar_widget]) for easy embedding anywhere on your site.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flexible Placement (Widgets &amp; Shortcodes):<\/strong> Seamlessly add widgets to your header, footer, or sidebar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3>Third-Party Service<\/h3>\n\n<p>The daily Bible verses themselves are bundled locally inside the plugin (data\/verses.json) and require no external service. When the verse language is set to English (the default), this plugin makes no network requests for verse content. (The only other possible external request is the Google Fonts CDN, and only until fonts are self-hosted \u2014 see \"Third-Party Fonts &amp; Licenses\" below.)<\/p>\n\n<p>When a language other than English is selected, the plugin uses one third-party service:<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Verse of the Day Widget for WP Translation API<\/strong>\n- Translates the day's KJV verse into the selected language. The request is made server-side by your WordPress site (never by your visitors' browsers), at most once per language per day, and the result is cached locally until midnight.\n- <strong>Data Sent<\/strong>: The verse text and the selected language code. No personal data, visitor data, or site data is sent, collected, or stored.\n- <strong>Access<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freesmartphoneapps.com\/verseoftheday\/api\/translate-verse\/\">https:\/\/www.freesmartphoneapps.com\/verseoftheday\/api\/translate-verse\/<\/a>\n- <strong>Privacy Policy<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/freesmartphoneapps.com\/privacy-policy-votd\/\">https:\/\/freesmartphoneapps.com\/privacy-policy-votd\/<\/a> (Updated 2025-05-21).<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>OpenAI API<\/strong>\n- This API is used to translate the Bible verses into over 100 languages, ensuring a multilingual experience.\n- <strong>Personal Data<\/strong>: The API does not collect or store any personal data.\n- <strong>Access<\/strong>: The API is accessed at <a href=\"https:\/\/api.openai.com\/v1\">https:\/\/api.openai.com\/v1<\/a>.\n- <strong>Privacy Policy<\/strong>: Refer to OpenAI's privacy policy here: <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/privacy\">https:\/\/openai.com\/privacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Third-Party Fonts &amp; Licenses<\/h3>\n\n<p>This plugin offers 18 Google Fonts as font-family options. When downloaded via Settings &gt; \"Download &amp; Self-Host All Fonts,\" the actual font files are saved to this plugin's own \/fonts\/ directory (one subfolder per font, each including a LICENSE.txt). Both licenses below permit free use, modification, and self-hosted redistribution:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Apache License, Version 2.0<\/strong> (Roboto, Roboto Mono) \u2014\u0080\u0094 http:\/\/www.apache.org\/licenses\/LICENSE-2.0<\/li>\n<li><strong>SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1<\/strong> (Open Sans, Inter, Lato, Source Sans Pro, Raleway, Montserrat, Nunito, EB Garamond, Merriweather, Playfair Display, Lora, Crimson Text, Source Code Pro, Fira Code, Poppins, Quicksand) \u2014\u0080\u0094 https:\/\/scripts.sil.org\/OFL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Until a given font is self-hosted, it is instead loaded live from Google Fonts under the same license terms; see \"Third-Party Service\" above for that data flow.<\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Download the Plugin:<\/strong> Upload the plugin files to the <code>\/wp-content\/plugins\/verse-of-the-day-widget-for-wp<\/code> directory, or install the plugin directly through the WordPress plugin screen by searching for <strong>Verse of the Day Widget for WP<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Activate the Plugin:<\/strong> Go to the 'Plugins' screen in WordPress and activate the plugin.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Configure the Widget:<\/strong> Navigate to the \"Appearance\" tab under \"Widgets\" in the WordPress admin menu. From there, add one of the two distinct widgets\u2014either the header widget or the sidebar widget\u2014to an available widget area.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Use the Shortcode:<\/strong> Optionally, you can embed the widget directly into your posts and pages. Use the \n[votd_header_widget] shortcode for the header version or [votd_sidebar_widget] for the more compact sidebar version.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<dl>\n<dt id=\"how%20do%20i%20display%20the%20widget%3F\"><h3>How do I display the widget?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Use the shortcode <code>[votd_verse_of_the_day_widget_for_wp]<\/code> in any post or page, or add the widget through the WordPress Appearance menu.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"can%20i%20display%20the%20widget%20in%20multiple%20languages%3F\"><h3>Can I display the widget in multiple languages?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Yes! With ChatGPT-powered translation, you can display the daily verse in over 100 languages. Simply select your preferred language in the widget\u2019s settings.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"is%20the%20plugin%20compatible%20with%20all%20themes%3F\"><h3>Is the plugin compatible with all themes?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>The plugin is designed to work with most WordPress themes. If you experience any issues, please create a topic on our official WordPress support forum so our team and the community can assist you: <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/plugin\/verse-of-the-day-widget-for-wp\/\">Official Plugin Support Page<\/a><\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n<!--section=changelog-->\n<p>For the complete version history (all releases), see the readme.txt revision log: <a href=\"https:\/\/plugins.trac.wordpress.org\/log\/verse-of-the-day-widget-for-wp\/trunk\/readme.txt\">https:\/\/plugins.trac.wordpress.org\/log\/verse-of-the-day-widget-for-wp\/trunk\/readme.txt<\/a><\/p>\n\n<h4>8.9.0 - (2026-08-15)<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fixed (Display):<\/strong> Some themes style the '<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n\n<p>blockquote&gt;' element with a large decorative quotation mark, which was being inherited by the widget's verse text and appearing as an oversized quote glyph over the background image. The widget now resets these theme-inherited quotation marks on its own verse blockquotes, so the verse displays cleanly regardless of which theme your site runs. No change to the verse text itself.\n* <strong>New (Animated Backgrounds):<\/strong> Added 5 new orca-themed and 4 new stallion-themed animations to the animated background library, joining the Caribbean set introduced in 8.8.0. Sites set to \"Animated Images\" or \"Both Static and Animated\" will begin showing them automatically.<\/p>\n\n<h4>8.8.0 - (2026-08-05)<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Changed (Animated Backgrounds):<\/strong> The animated background library has been replaced in full with 9 new Caribbean-themed animations. All previously bundled animations have been removed. No action is needed on your part, sites set to \"Animated Images\" or \"Both Static and Animated\" will simply begin showing the new set. The static image library is unchanged.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Changed (Backgrounds):<\/strong> The background image or animation is now selected deterministically once per day, in the same spirit as the daily verse itself, instead of being randomly re-picked on every single page load. A visitor browsing several pages of your site now sees the same background throughout, and it changes at your site's local midnight along with the verse.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Improved (Performance):<\/strong> Because the background no longer changes between page views, visitor browsers download it once per day and serve it from cache for every page afterward. Previously each page load requested a different file, so the browser cache was never reused, this was especially costly for the animated WebP backgrounds, which are considerably larger than the static images. Sites using animated backgrounds should see a substantial reduction in bandwidth per visitor.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Improved (Selection Coverage):<\/strong> The daily selection advances through the background library in a way that displays every image in your chosen set before any one of them repeats, so the full library is seen over time rather than some images appearing frequently and others rarely by chance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unchanged (Multiple Widgets):<\/strong> Widgets appearing together on the same page continue to receive different backgrounds from one another, as introduced in 8.5.4. Each widget's background is simply now stable for the day rather than randomized per page load.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Improved (Caching Compatibility):<\/strong> The daily rotation is calculated from your site's configured timezone offset rather than a server-generated date stamped into the page, so the background still rotates correctly on sites running full-page caching plugins, where a cached page could otherwise serve a stale date for hours or days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>8.7.3 - (2026-08-02)<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Adjusted the plugin short description to comply with the WordPress Plugin Directory's 150-character limit. No functional changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>For older releases, see <a href=\"https:\/\/plugins.svn.wordpress.org\/verse-of-the-day-widget-for-wp\/trunk\/changelog.txt\">changelog.txt<\/a>.<\/p>","raw_excerpt":"Displays daily Bible verses over AI-generated nature backgrounds, with static or animated images. 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