ScriptureLog.com Flooding the Internet with the Book of Mormon … and the other scriptures too

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ScriptureLog is a Plugin for WordPress.  You can download WordPress here.

ScriptureLog Download

The easiest way to get ScriptureLog is through the Plugin Installer built into WordPress.  See "Easy Installation" below.

The latest version is 1.1.1 and can be manually downloaded directly here:

scripturelog-1.1.1.zip

ScriptureLog is also available for manual download from the following locations:

ScriptureLog at the official WordPress Plugins Directory

ScriptureLog Project Downloads Page

Source Code

The ScriptureLog Open Source Project is hosted by Google Code where you can browse the source code and report issues.

You can check out a read only copy of the current version from the Subversion repository:

http://scripturelog.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.1.1/

The most recent development code can be checked out from:

http://scripturelog.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

Tags of older versions of the plugin will be available for checkout from:

http://scripturelog.googlecode.com/svn/tags/[version]/

Appropriate Hosting

Because the plugin inserts thousands of pages, ScriptureLog is not suitable for sites hosted on WordPress.com, which limits the number of pages an individual account can have.  It is also not recommended for established blogs with a large number of existing posts.   It would be best installed on a fresh, self-hosted install of WordPress.

Easy Plugin Installation

The easiest way to install ScriptureLog is through the Plugin Installer built right into WordPress. To get to the Plugin Installer, log into your WordPress administration panel and select "Plugins" from the menu.  Then click "Add New" in the sub-menu.  Now type "scripturelog" into the search box and click the "search plugins" button.

Click the "Install" link next to the listing for ScriptureLog which will open a panel with information about the plugin and an "Install" button.  Click the Install button and WordPress will automatically download and install the plugin.

Find and activate the ScriptureLog plugin in the Plugins section of your WordPress administration panel.  A new ScriptureLog menu will appear on the side of the administration.

Manual Plugin Installation

If you have SSH access to your host, it is highly recommended that you SSH to you server and ftp or wget the zip file to the /wp-content/plugins/ folder of your WordPress installation from one of the URLs above and then unzip the file contents there.  If you don't have SSH access, download and unzip the file to your own computer and then FTP upload the contents to /wp-content/plugins/.

Find and activate the ScriptureLog plugin in the Plugins section of your WordPress administration panel.  A new ScriptureLog menu will appear on the side of the administration.

Scripture & Widget Installation

Once the plugin itself is installed, you will still need to install the scripture pages themselves and add the ScriptureLog widget to your sidebar before you will see the scriptures on your website.

Click on the Appearance section of the WordPress administration panel and select the Widgets management.  Add the ScriptureLog Widget to the sidebar of you site, by dragging and dropping it, along with any other widgets you would like to appear.

Go to the new ScriptureLog management menu section and install the Book of Mormon or the Old Testament pages by clicking the appropriate install button.  The install executes over 6,000 SQL queries to insert the Book of Mormon into your WordPress database and over 24,000 queries for the Old Testament, so depending on your host's settings, this could take anywhere from a few seconds to a number of minutes.  Be patient.  Some hosts will not allow scripts to run long enough for all of the pages to be inserted.  In this case you will have to run the SQL manually through MySQL on the command-line over SSH or through the import section of phpMyAdmin.  The SQL file is located in the plugin's install folder.

License

ScriptureLog is released under a permissive New BSD License:

Copyright © 2009  J. Max Wilson and Daniel Bartholomew

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR "AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.