Comments on: Catholic Reference Extension

By: Pistos

Pistos — Sat, 29 May 2010 22:59:28 +0000

Kenneth: Can you put up an example page for me to take a look?

By: Kenneth Henderson

Kenneth Henderson — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:45:07 +0000

I want to use your plugin to enhance my website. However, I can get it to only partially work.

If I put in:

CCC 1843

I DO NOT get a popup

But...

If I put in:

`CCC 1843

I get the inline reference.

Any help?

Thanks!

By: Tim A Troutman

Tim A Troutman — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:00:40 +0000

BTW, I can insert “Matthew” between every two refs and it works. I was just hoping there was a way to get it to link without that (or at least get it not to delete the extra ref.)

By: Tim A Troutman

Tim A Troutman — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:59:21 +0000

Hi, great plugin! Thanks for this. We are using it at our site but I just noticed that for refs longer than two refs, it doesn't just fail to link the extra refs, it deletes them altogether.

Matthew 4:18; 10:2; 14:28-29; 15:15-16; 16:16, 18, 22-23; 17:1, 4, 24, 26; 18:21; 19:27; 26:33, 35, 37, 40, 58, 69, 73, 75;

Becomes:

Matthew 4:18; 26:33,75;

Anything I'm doing wrong or is there a work around for this?

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:27:38 +0000

Thanx for trying anyway! Happy New Year

By: Pistos

Pistos — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:37:32 +0000

@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.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:27:43 +0000

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.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:51:54 +0000

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.

By: Pistos

Pistos — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:09:10 +0000

@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.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:58:27 +0000

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.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:17:39 +0000

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

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:45:09 +0000

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

By: Pistos

Pistos — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:33:49 +0000

@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.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:45:12 +0000

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!

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:30:37 +0000

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

By: Pistos

Pistos — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:21:35 +0000

Jon: Are you still having trouble? I visited your site, and it looks like it’s working.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:56:29 +0000

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

By: Pistos

Pistos — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:59:27 +0000

@biblista: Please be more descriptive. I just tested it now with Firefox 3.0.14, and it works as I expect on this page.

By: biblista

biblista — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:57:11 +0000

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.

By: Pistos

Pistos — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:28:58 +0000

@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.

By: Father Pat Mulcahy

Father Pat Mulcahy — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:49:26 +0000

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

By: mak sev

mak sev — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:10:24 +0000

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

By: Pistos

Pistos — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:47:36 +0000

@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?

By: mak sev

mak sev — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:27:58 +0000

thanks pistos finally got it to work seems to be a problem with the path.

Thanks and God Bless!

By: Pistos

Pistos — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:58:49 +0000

@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.

By: Pistos

Pistos — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:41:00 +0000

@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.

By: mak sev

mak sev — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:34:26 +0000

I am experiencing the same problem as Mike Roesch about is there any work around for this?

By: Jeff Geerling

Jeff Geerling — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:10:10 +0000

Any chance for a Drupal-ized or Joomla-tized version of this plugin?

I would be willing to help

By: Pistos

Pistos — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:04:24 +0000

@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.

By: Father Pat Mulcahy

Father Pat Mulcahy — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:12:20 +0000

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!

By: Father Pat Mulcahy

Father Pat Mulcahy — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:07:05 +0000

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.

By: Pistos

Pistos — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:02:39 +0000

@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.

By: Father Pat Mulcahy

Father Pat Mulcahy — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:22:04 +0000

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!

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:59:51 +0000

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.

By: Pistos

Pistos — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:42:44 +0000

@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.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:04:06 +0000

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!

By: Pistos

Pistos — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:08:49 +0000

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 (

By: biblista

biblista — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:41:27 +0000

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.

By: Pistos

Pistos — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:14:04 +0000

Mike: Well, one other thing that I can think of is maybe you have some local CSS stylesheets that you apply. Otherwise, I’m not sure. But the CRE on your site seems to look fine by all evidence over here, so, I suppose you don’t have anything to worry about as far as your visitors are concerned.

By: Mike Roesch

Mike Roesch — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:39:54 +0000

I disabled both extensions and plugins, and it still looked the same. Here is a screenshot: http://www.mikeroesch.com/screenshot.png (the verses show up like this on every post on the page, not just the one where there is a reference)

Things did look fine on Win XP Firefox at work, though, so it’s just something I’ve done to Firefox, apparently. Thanks for trying!

By: Pistos

Pistos — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:43:24 +0000

Mike: It works for me in Firefox 3.0.8, in Linux. Perhaps you could try disabling all your Firefox add-ons. If that fixes it, you can enable them one by one to find the culprit.

By: Mike Roesch

Mike Roesch — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:40:17 +0000

I do see it working in IE7 and Google Chrome, as well, but not in Firefox 3.0.8. I can’t imagine how it would conflict with any extension I’m running, so I’m clueless.

By: Pistos

Pistos — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:31:48 +0000

Mike: I’m looking at your site and clicking on the references; things seem to be working for me? What browser and operating system are you using? It works for me in Opera, Firefox and IE7.

By: Mike Roesch

Mike Roesch — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:22:13 +0000

Okay, I forgot the settings page was there, and changed the text directories. Now it’s back to its previous behavior (texts shown at the bottom of each post…the texts for the top post on my front page actually show up at the bottom of EVERY post).

By: Pistos

Pistos — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:56:18 +0000

Mike: I have looked at your site, and it doesn't appear that the CRE is even running properly on the server side. So I don't think this is a Javascript or CSS issue. What version of Wordpress and what version of the CRE are you running?

Another important thing to verify is: in the CRE settings page in the Wordpress admin panel, ensure that your "Douay-Rheims Bible text directory:" and "Catechism of the Catholic Church text directory:" are set correctly. Those directories should have many text files in them, containing the Scripture and Catechism texts. If these directories are not set, or the texts can't be found, the CRE will not transform any references on your site.

By: Mike Roesch

Mike Roesch — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:16:34 +0000

Sorry…never mind the “never mind.” The references now don’t show up at the bottom OR as a popup.

By: Mike Roesch

Mike Roesch — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:12:55 +0000

Never mind; I just had the directory name for the extension named differently than “catholic-reference.”

By: Mike Roesch

Mike Roesch — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:53:49 +0000

Hey, I’ve been having some problems with the extension for awhile now. No popups, just the text at the bottom of the post. I don’t know if it’s not playing nice with another one, or if I lost some CSS at some point, or what. Any ideas?

By: roller

roller — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:24:28 +0000

Hi Thanks for last response. I now imagine I have a bigger problem. I must start by letting you know that I am very new to Wordpress and could be totally wrong in my conclusions that follow. When I activate CRE it appears to prevent me from activating other themes because the option does not appear on the top right of new themes preview window. Secondly I get an error message when I try to add an image to a post. The image uploads ok but I don’t get the show option to insert it into the post. Even as I write this I feel I am probably wrong and there is unlikely to be a link between the plugin and the errors I am encountering so I apologise in advance if this is the case.

By: Pistos

Pistos — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:18:10 +0000

roller: Try:

.cathref_footer {
  margin-top: 1em;
}