Bible SuperSearch

Changelog

= 6.2.2
* Bugfix: Fixed non-existent default skin option
* Bugfix: Fixed potential file permission issue with templates

= 6.2.1
* Bugfix to support legacy PHP 7.3

= 6.2.0
* Added Audio Bible playback option
* Added configs for the audio Bible
* Misc bugfixes

= 6.1.1
* Fixed some security issues

= 6.1.0
* Settings page for the WordPress plugin has been completely rebuilt with a modern User Interface (UI).
* Auto Scroll to Error message when No Results
* One-click Copy/share Bible verses
* Config to set Default Bibles by UI Language
* Option to require users to manually save their settings by pushing a button.
* Option to save user’s selected Bibles into their settings.
* Option to disable language selection.
* Fixed issues with “Suppress Parallel Search”
* Fixed history dialog to not show repeats, but only show the most recent.
* Fixed history / book mark links when having the software on mutiple pages on a website.
* Fixed potential cross site scripting issue.
* Fixed broken pagination on advanced search
* Fixed random chapter / verse actual references not populating into form.
* Fixed results list / results count / pager showing in print mode.
* Fixed text labels on some skins not showing properly for long translation strings.
* Cleaned up dialog buttons to position the same regardless of language.

= 6.0.1
* Fixed total breakage of side swipe buttons
* Fixed breakage when toggling from advanced to basic form.
* Fixed user configs not resetting
* Fixed max autocompletion options not working

= 6.0.0
** BREAKING CHANGES
* PHP Version: 7.3 minimum
* WordPress Version: 5.0 minimum
* All CSS class names have been renamed to start with bss_
* Only exception are CSS class names already starting with bss_ or biblesupersearch_

= 5.7.0
* Added: Gospel verses to Bible Help/SOS dialog
* Fixed: form double submitting
* Fixed: Book matching not always working in English

= 5.6.25
* Fixed PHP warnings on options page.

= 5.6.24
* Fixed other PHP version specific bugs

= 5.6.23
* No longer dying out if main API cannot be reached. This allows users to turn on the debug mode to see what’s going on.

= 5.6.22
* Fixed issues with confirm dialogs not working in English
* Fixed buttons disappearing on side of screen on mobile

= 5.6.21
* Fixed translation issues on Bookmarks dialog

= 5.6.20
* Different CSS classes for each Bible text
* Config / User setting to show or hide parallel Bible errors.
* Preserve user config settings for next session (using Local Storage, not cookies)
* Config to show contextual help as inline or tooltip.
* Bugfix: History showing blank items
* Bugfix: Bookmarks allowing blank items
* Bugfix: Fixed breakage of Previous chapter button / swipe

= 5.6.11
*** Emergency bugfix
* Default Bible was defaulting to boolean true, causing breakage when installing plugin for the first time.
* Existing WP sites not affected

= 5.6.10

  • Added language option to use selected WP Site Language as the UI language, made this option the default language option.
  • Added tabs to config page and organized config options better.
  • Search results reference summary list
  • Option to Limit Search to Reference only if manually selected
  • Fixed and improved share dialog
    ** Added config to determine when to use the system share dialog (ie mobile) vs the generic share dialog.
    ** Added settings on dialog for including the link and formatting.
  • Fixed “Verse as Passage Display” formatting in copy mode to be consistent with “Verse as Passage Display” in read mode.
  • Fixed language fallback. Previously, it would simply grab the first 2 charaters of the locale, resulting in erroneous selection.

  • Added User Interface Language translations:
    ** Amharic
    ** Afrikaans
    ** Bengali
    ** Burmese / Myanmar
    ** Somali
    ** Tamil
    ** Telugu
    ** Tajiki / Tajik
    ** Uyghur

= 5.6.2
* Fixed default Bible on widget

= 5.6.1
** Updating Arabic with fluent translation.

= 5.6.0
* Added Languages:
** Albanian
** Arabic
** Bengali
** Burmese
** Dutch/Flemish
** Hausa
** Hebrew (Modern)
** Indonesian
** Gujarti
** Kannada
** Korean
** Marathi
** Nepali
** Persian
** Polish
** Punjabi
** Somali
** Swahili
** Tagalog
** Tajiki / Tajik (Bible only)
** Tamil (Bible only)
** Telugu (Bible only)
** Tibetan
** Turkish
** Urdu
** Uyghur
** Vietnamese
** Wolof

  • Quick start links now reflect what form fields appear on the given skin.
    ** On Minimal forms, “Romans, searched for faith no longer appears under Basic Searches.
    ** On Browsing with Book Selector forms, only the Passage Retrieval and Formatting sections appear.

  • Implemented RTL support for UI languages (we already supported this for Bibles)

= 5.5.1
* Emergency fix for Linux and other misc OS.

= 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.

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Author
aicwebtech
Version:
6.2.2
Last Updated
February 21, 2026
Active Installs
200
Requires
WordPress 5.0
Tested Up To
WordPress 6.9.1
Requires PHP
7.3

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