About
The CRE is a Wordpress plugin which activates both Scripture references and references to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, showing non-intrusive popups when you mouseover them.
Example
Jesus builds his church: Matthew 16:16-18. One holy, catholic and apostolic Church: CCC 748,750. The ark of the New Covenant: Revelation 11:19; 12:1-2.
FAQ
Why does the CRE show the passages without formatting, and not as nicely formatted popups like I see in the examples?
Please download the CRE from this page (see below).
For some reason, an incomplete package for the CRE is being circulated, and I don’t know why or where it is coming from, but it is missing critical components of the CRE (the Javascript and CSS). Installing such a broken package will give you a non-functional CRE!
It is likely that the WordPress “auto-install” feature will give you a broken CRE, so do not use auto-install to install the CRE.
Download
Wordpress Plugin
Version 0.8.16 released 2009-10-26.
- Version 0.8.16, without texts zip 30kb | tar.bz2 27kb
- Version 0.8.16, with texts zip 2099kb | tar.bz2 1417 kb
Texts
The CRE needs the texts in order to do its work. If you did not obtain the full package (above), then download these texts and unpack them in your catholic-reference/ plugin directory. They will be stored under catholic-reference/texts/.
Usage
| Type this | See this |
|---|---|
| John 3:16 | John 3:16 |
| CCC 1843 | CCC 1843 |
| `Matt. 28:20 |
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| `CCC 987 |
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| !Isa. 60:53-20 | Isa. 60:53-20 |
| !CCC 740-750 | CCC 740-750 |
| [nocathref] No references activated: CCC 860-862 Sirach 2:1 | No references activated: CCC 860-862 Sirach 2:1 |
Sites Using the CRE
Blog Hosts
Blogs
- Acts Seventeen
- AgustinongPinoy
- angfrayle
- Anglo-Lutheran Catholic Church
- Basic Missions
- Bible Lotion
- Biblia y Catecismo
- The Bible Workshop
- Blessed Sacrament Parish
- Bombastic
- Brian McDaniel on Strategic Communications
- Brian Wiese
- Caritas Christi Urget Nos
- Catholic Bible In A Year
- Catholic Revelation
- Catholic Scotland
- Catholic Truths
- Christina Cox Art Blog
- The Catholic Student Center at West Texas A&M University
- Catholicism Computes
- Cathopologist
- Catolico Cerrado
- Cincinnati Seminarian Blog
- Claves Regni Caelorum
- Clonlost Retreat Centre
- Diocese of Middlesbrough
- Family for Kids
- Father Allen’s Site
- Five-Stick Day
- Footsteps of Saint Paul
- fruitful faith
- A Gift of Tongues
- God Left a Message
- Golden Arrow
- Half the Kingdom
- Healing After Abortion
- Hearing God’s Call
- Holy Postage
- Javier Plumey
- JD Lozinger
- Kursilyo
- Lengua Latina
- Life Around the Collar
- Living Gracefully
- Mabuting Balita
- Machina Dei
- The Master’s Habit
- Matthijs Meeuwsen
- The McCaul Retort
- Medjugorje.org
- Middlesbrough Diocesan Vocations
- My Little Voice of Worship
- My Online Chapel
- Option C
- Ora et Labora
- Papist and Patriot
- The Recovering Choir Director
- Ruri et Orbi
- RyanClan.us
- Sacred Devotion
- Seas Respect Life
- St. Clare of Assisi Parish
- Tiny Calico Cat
- Transitus Tiber
- Universal Fellowship In Christ
- The Upper Pontiac Parishes
- Visibly Catholic
- Viva Catholic!
- Your Daily Inspiration
- 2 Seconds Faster
16Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God.
17And Jesus answering, said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven.
18And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
1119And the temple of God was opened in heaven: and the ark of his testament was seen in his temple, and there were lightnings, and voices, and an earthquake, and great hail.
121And a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars:
2And being with child, she cried travailing in birth, and was in pain to be delivered.
16For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in him, may not perish, but may have life everlasting.
CCC 748,750
¶748 "Christ is the light of humanity; and it is, accordingly, the heart-felt desire of this sacred Council, being gathered together in the Holy Spirit, that, by proclaiming his Gospel to every creature, it may bring to all men that light of Christ which shines out visibly from the Church." These words open the Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church. By choosing this starting point, the Council demonstrates that the article of faith about the Church depends entirely on the articles concerning Christ Jesus. The Church has no other light than Christ's; according to a favorite image of the Church Fathers, the Church is like the moon, all its light reflected from the sun.
¶750 To believe that the Church is "holy" and "catholic," and that she is "one" and "apostolic" (as the Nicene Creed adds), is inseparable from belief in God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In the Apostles' Creed we profess "one Holy Church" (Credo . . . Ecclesiam), and not to believe in the Church, so as not to confuse God with his works and to attribute clearly to God's goodness all the gifts he has bestowed on his Church.
CCC 1843
¶1843 By hope we desire, and with steadfast trust await from God, eternal life and the graces to merit it.
Hi, some Catechism references do not seem to work. Could you please visit this link and tell me why certain references are not coming up?
Here is the link: http://bws.biblista.net/2009/05/the-coming-of-the-holy-spirit/
Thank you in advance.
biblista: I have confirmed the problem. I think there is a bug in the plugin. For now, you can work around it by making those four lines into a list (<ul>).
Just found this plug-in for a site I’m working on. Great job!
One quick question though – is there any way to add the words “Douay-Rheims” after the scripture quotations? In other words, in the pop-up I would like it to display something like:
1 Peter 3:15 (Douay-Rheims)
The site I’m designing will be sensitive to where the quotes come from and I would like to give this added assurance.
Thank you!
@Matt: Try this new version I just made. It has an option in the CRE settings page to show or not show the Bible version in the popup.
Thanks Pistos – I’m uploading it now. Once the site is finished I’ll send you the link so you can add it to your list. I can’t give it to you yet because its on the DL at the moment.
I’ve tried valiantly to get this to work. I get the same kind of output as Mike Roesch, above, in both firefox and safari. These are popular browsers, and I can’t use this plugin if it doesn’t work with them, so I’m going to disable it. I had high hopes!
@Father Pat: I’d like to work with you to get it going. Unfortunately, if you’ve disabled the plugin, I can’t pay a visit to see it working or failing to work. If you are able, perhaps you could set up a second, alternative test site running a duplicate of your blog under a different domain or subdomain, then we can test over there. If you don’t have the luxury of additional hosting, I could look into it for you if you packaged up your blog, both the files (PHP, HTML, CSS, etc.) and the database dump.
The CRE has been used on many blogs, so I believe there is not a major issue with the plugin itself. I just tested it now under Firefox 3.0.11, and my site appears fine.
One thing you might try: Ensure the “draw drop shadows” option is disabled (unchecked). I notice just now that when I enabled it, it causes some rendering problems.
Hi, Pistos, thanks for your offer to help. I have re-enabled the plugin and put in a test post at http://blog.fathermulcahy.com/2009/07/30/testing-1-2-3/ … Anything you can do to help would be very much appreciated, because I would LOVE to use this plugin! BTW, at your suggestion, I did disable the drop shadow option, but no change. Thanks.
Hello, Pistos. If you can suggest anything, it would be great. I have the plugin activated now, and did a test post. You can see it at http://blog.fathermulcahy.com. Thanks!
@Father Pat: Sorry for the delayed response. I see you’ve taken down the test posts again, for worry of having a broken site for any lengthy period of time. How about this: Is there any way you can package up your Wordpress theme, and send it to me? pistos at “gee”mail dot com. As well, please list all your active plugins, so I can see if there are potential conflicts.
Any chance for a Drupal-ized or Joomla-tized version of this plugin?
I would be willing to help
I am experiencing the same problem as Mike Roesch about is there any work around for this?
@mak sev: Thankfully, you still left the plugin running by the time I caught this comment. I went to look at your site, and it looks like the plugin’s Javascript is not installed. It should be at http://kursilyo.com/wp-content/plugins/catholic-reference/catholic-reference.js . Try to ensure that it’s there, then check if the plugin works at that point.
(edit) In fact, the CSS isn’t there, either. None of the items under /wp-content/plugins/catholic-reference/ are present. That’ll definitely make the plugin not work right.
@Jeff: I don’t have a lot of free time, so I don’t think there’s much chance of getting that out of me, especially since I run neither Drupal nor Joomla for any sites. Feel free to use the code or the texts, though. The plugin is open source, after all.
thanks pistos finally got it to work seems to be a problem with the path.
Thanks and God Bless!
@mak sev: Great! Glad you got it sorted. Can you share what you fixed, so as to help other people that run into the same issue?
I’ve installed CRE using wordpress auto install
it installed on the folder catholic-reference-for-wordpress
/public_html/wp-content/plugins/catholic-reference/texts/ccc
i just removed the “for-wordpress”
then it worked
Thanks, Mak, that’s how I installed CRE also, and I tried it and it worked. The only thing is now, I get two popups for every time I go over the link, but I’ll take that rather than it not working at all!
Peace,
Fr. Pat
@Father Pat: Thanks for returning and trying the CRE again. I’ve visited your site, and seems that the Scripture references are not activating, either by hover or by click. Are they working for you?
As for having two popups: See if disabling the drop shadow in the CRE admin settings makes any difference.
The CRE works funny on FireFox 3. Right now it works well with IExplore. I don’t know whether you’ve checked browser compatibility issues with the plugin.
@biblista: Please be more descriptive.
I just tested it now with Firefox 3.0.14, and it works as I expect on this page.
Hi Pistos,
This is a way cool plug in, but I can’t seem to make it work? I did the manual ftp to my site and nothing. I have a blog that talks about living the will of God and plan to use a lot of references to it. Any idea?
Jon
Jon: Are you still having trouble? I visited your site, and it looks like it’s working.
Hey Pistos,
Yes, I have it working, sorry it took a while to get back to you. I did just post a post with quite a few references in it and when I mouse over them they keep brining up the same Scripture? It is the post titled Thanksgiving.
God Bless,
Jon
themastershabit.com
Hi. Thank you for this plugin. I’ve been fighting with it however for awhile. Managed to fix the missing texts and rename the folder. However, I’m not getting the popup. Blockquote works fine. Any ideas? Tried it in IE and FF. Thank you!
@Kelly: Have you installed it from the tarballs available for download from this blog? You need to ensure you have the CSS and Javascript files in the right places, as well. What’s the URL of the website you’re trying to install to? I can take a look.
Hi. Thank you for the fast reply! I downloaded it from here. Have deleted and moved things around a few times trying to figure it out. Moved the java out of its own folder and into the text, into the main and back again.
The jquery,option-hover, & option-click.js are in their own folder in the main catholic-reference folder (which is in the correct plugin folder). The catholic-reference.js, .css, and .php are in the main catholic-reference folder.
Here’s the site:
olp.techbasix.com/news/
Thanx again for your help
Pistos –
Plugin installation was flawless. No problems at all! I was going to use something else, but the addition of the use of the DRB and an option to link to the NAB made your plugin the clear choice.
The hands-down winner, IMHO, for any Catholic WP blog site.
God Bless You Richly!
Bob
CatholicBibleInAYear.org
Hi again. I am also unable to disable the Catholic Reference on pages even though it does show the option. I can fill the check box but when I update the page the check box unchecks itself anyway.
@Kelly: It looks like the Wordpress theme you are using has some CSS that is conflicting with the CRE. To verify, try temporarily switching to a different Wordpress theme (such as the default one).
There are several things about the theme that conflict. For starters, the post content is set to “overflow: hidden”. You can remove that instruction from two places in style.css: line 1730 and line 1047.
Then around line 685, set the z-index of the Block class to -1 instead of 0.
There are probably several other changes you need to make to the theme to make it cooperate with the CRE. It’s probably easier just to pick a different theme.
Let me know how it goes.
You are correct. It works in a plain theme. If I knew more about css…. I’ll give your instruction a try… see if deleting a couple lines and changing that block class will work.
I have a dummy site that is identical to the actual site, so any mess ups are recoverable. Thank you again.
Well I was going to give it a try but my css isn’t showing the same line numbers as yours so I would be just shooting in the dark at which line to remove, which to keep.
I put a lot of work into this theme so not so easy to just use a new one. Guess I do without. Thanx anyway.
@Kelly: Sorry about that. If I have time, I will see if I can cook up a new CRE version which can work with themes like yours.
Thanx for trying anyway! Happy New Year