A complete Bible for your WordPress site — Scripture Atlas, cross-references, reading plans, KJV and BSB.
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96 Bible topics connected by shared verses — from core doctrine to everyday Christian life. Open Scripture Atlas →
Adding a Bible to a website sounds simple until you start.
First you need the text. So you find a SQL dump or CSV somewhere, import it, and immediately discover:
- Verses are missing — Psalm 119 cuts off at verse 150, 3 John is incomplete
- Pilcrow marks (
¶) and zero-width characters scattered through the text - Double spaces, curly quotes mixed with straight quotes, inconsistent punctuation
- Book names don't match across translations — is it "Psalms" or "Psalm"? "1 John" or "I John"?
- The schema is different for every source — some split book/chapter/verse into columns, some mash them into one string
So you normalize all of that. Then you need a second translation. Different source, different schema, different encoding problems. Repeat for every translation you want to support.
Now you have clean data and a normalized database. You still need:
- A reference parser that handles
John 3:16,1 Cor 13,Rev 21:1-4,Jn 3,1Cor13,Ps 23— every abbreviation, shorthand, and numbered book format your users might type - Full-text search that feels instant across 31,000+ verses
- Cross-references linking scripture across 66 books
- Reading plans with progress tracking and day-by-day navigation
- Topic modeling that shows how theological ideas relate to each other
- Bookmarks, highlights, notes, verse sharing, cloud sync, dark mode
- Mobile layout, URL routing, page speed
That's months of edge cases and data plumbing. Most projects stall somewhere between the database import and the reference parser.
You do not need to build any of this.
Install from your WordPress admin and your site has:
- Scripture Atlas — 96 Bible topics connected by shared verses, from core doctrine to everyday Christian life
- Cross-references — tap any verse to see related passages
- KJV and Berean Standard Bible (BSB) — both public domain, both included on every plan
- 5 reading plans — Bible in a Year, NT in 90 Days, NT in a Year, Gospel of John, Psalms & Proverbs
- Full-text search with book filtering
- Verse shortcodes —
[biblebridge_verse ref="John 3:16"]or[biblebridge_verse ref="Romans 8:1" version="bsb"] - Verse of the day —
[biblebridge_verse_of_the_day] - Verse sharing, highlighting, and notes
- Cloud sync across devices via a simple code (no account required)
- Dark mode and mobile layout
Every feature is included on every plan, including free.
- In your WordPress admin, go to Plugins → Add New
- Search for "BibleBridge" and click Install Now
- Activate the plugin
- Go to Settings → BibleBridge to set your reader name
- Find your reader URL under Page URL in Settings and add it to your navigation menu
A free API key is provisioned automatically on activation — no signup required.
Every PHP, CSS, and JavaScript file ships as human-readable source in the plugin zip. No minification, no build step, no obfuscation. What you download is what runs.
GPLv3. See LICENSE for details.