Greekify
ἀρχὴ τοῦ εὐαγγελίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ υἱοῦ θεοῦ (Mark 1:1)
(Thanks to Shawn for the image - feel free to use it to link back to this page)Greekify is a WordPress plugin designed to allow you to insert passages of the New Testament (or the Old Testament LXX) into your blog in Greek, with detailed grammatical information available as tooltips (based on the excellent XML feed provided by Zhubert.com), and with every word hyperlinking back to Zhubert.com’s analysis site. It is a little more effort to install than most plugins, but the step-by-step instructions below should do it for you…
See it in use
So far, I’m aware of the following sites that have used the plugin. If you would like to be added, let me know!
- kai euthus
- Lo-Fi Tribe (formerly Progressive Ink!)
- Sacred Journey
Issues/To-do
- RSS feed broken (only on one installation; works on others)
- Add ability to modify class of <a> tags
- Replace ‘pre’ and ‘post’ with ‘between’ or similar (to remove trailing space)
- Add %reference substitution to insert the verse
Installation
- Download the latest version of the plugin from here (right click and do save-as) and save it in your wp-content/plugins directory. Rename it to cg_greek2.php (actually, anything is ok as long as it ends in .php).
- Edit your default-filters.php file (in wp-includes) to remove the line: add_filter(’the_content’, ‘wptexturize’);
- In your WordPress options/writing, make sure “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” is off
- Activate the plugin
- To enable the tooltips, save this javascript on your server, and add <script language=”JavaScript” type=”text/javascript” src=”http:[path-to-script]/wz_tooltip.js”></script> to your template immediately before the </body> tag
- Modify your style sheet to include a section for links of class “greek” specifying suitable fonts. For instance…
a.greek {
font-family: Athena, ‘Athena Unicode’, ‘Arial Unicode MS’, ‘Lucida Grande’, ‘Palatino Linotype’, ‘Cardo’;
font-size: 140%;
}
Basic Usage
Now you should be ready to go. The plugin uses the html comment format to mark where you want verses inserted. The verse at the top of this page, for instance, was inserted with:
<!–greek Mark 1:1–>
You must type the whole thing on the same line (but it doesn’t need to be alone on a line, so you can insert text into a paragraph of English). The format needs to be as shown: there is a space on each side of Mark, but no other spaces. Multiple verses (Mark 1:1-2) work as you would expect.
Once you publish (or edit) the post, you’ll see that the “greek” comment is replaced with “done”, followed by a mass of html, followed by an “enddone” comment (these markers are just to help you find your way around your page).
Inserting individual words
You can also insert individual words from a verse. To do this you need to know the word number, which you can find in the URL that the plugin generated (for instance, if you view the source of this page, you’ll see that the first word in Mark 1:1 is number 606643). Then to get <!–greek Mark 1:1:606643–>
You can also do multiple words:
<!–greek Mark 1:1:606643-606644–>
Configuring the output
You can modify the output in a couple of ways. To change the default appearance of the tooltip, it’s best to edit the javascript file (the things you can change are listed near the top); to change the default content that is displayed, you can edit the plugin.
You can also modify individual tooltips as described below. In general, the format for configuring anything via the plugin is:
<!–greek name=value :: name2=value2 :: Mark 1:1–>
The possible ‘names’ are listed below.
| name | use |
|---|---|
| pre | text to insert before each word (default is empty) |
| post | text to insert after each word (default is a space) |
| hover | text to show in the tooltip |
| linked | text to display as the hyperlink (default is the greek word) |
| url | url of the hyperlink (default links to zhubert) |
In each of these you can use ‘%xxx’ to substitute the following - play with them to see what they do - %gkey, %form, %lemma, %pos, %def, %person, %tense, %voice, %mood, %case, %number, %gender, %degree.
Finally, you can override the appearance of specific tooltips by using name equal to:
T_BGCOLOR, T_BGIMG, T_BORDERCOLOR, T_BORDERWIDTH, T_FONTFACE, T_FONTCOLOR, T_FONTSIZE, T_FONTWEIGHT, T_PADDING, T_SHADOWCOLOR, T_SHADOWWIDTH, T_TITLE, T_TITLECOLOR
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April 27th, 2005 at 1:01 pm
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Word Press Greek Plugin
Inspired by Mike, I’ve produced a Word Press Greek Plugin which parses an XML feed from zhubert to insert NT Greek Bible verses, with lots of addi […]
April 28th, 2005 at 8:57 am
[…] of Greek and would obviously enjoy being able to use it on my blog. I found an interesting plugin which would permit me to do this, but I have to see if I hacked enough code correctly so as to actually ge […]
April 28th, 2005 at 9:00 am
Thanks to Shawn at http://www.progressiveink.com/ for picking up some bugs in this. As a results I’ve modified the download step 1 (to make it work!), the javascript tag in step 5 (to make the result validate with W3C), fixed the fonts in the javascript itself, and added step 6.
I’ve also added RSS to the outstanding issues list, again, thanks to Shawn.
June 13th, 2005 at 7:06 am
Hello there. I’d like to try out the plugin but the link to the code doesn’t work. Could you take a look at it. I’ll keep checking back. Thanks, I think this is a great idea.
June 13th, 2005 at 9:04 pm
Sorry about that - didn’t recreate the download link when I did a bugfix. Fixed now.
September 15th, 2005 at 12:13 pm
Works great, but can’t figure out how to use book names that start with a number, like 2 Timothy. No matter how i’ve tried it (2 timothy 3:16; 2Timothy 3:16; II Timothy 3:16) it doesn’t return any html.
September 15th, 2005 at 12:36 pm
Sage - Thanks, I never noticed that. It’s broken. Fix on the way I hope…
September 15th, 2005 at 12:43 pm
OK. If get a fresh copy (v0.4) from the link above it should work.
September 15th, 2005 at 12:53 pm
Works like a charm! Thanks, Chris, for the fast response. I had just found the zhubert site tonight, and it was blowing me away…but when I found I could use it on my blog with you plugin…well you just made my night…maybe my week! Thanks for this awesome plugin.
December 5th, 2005 at 4:21 am
Hm, it does not work on my page. I use a couple of plugins (http://karl.karzelek.com/xrossblog/plugins-used) and I don’t know which is disturbing. And unfortunatly my PC is broken down and on the old laptop I use I cannot install a Apache to test it locally.
I have done as you described. But this resulted in a completly broken frontpage. All content was there … but not on the place it should be. But, and that’s quite interesting, the greek verse was shown correct, at least some of the words. I use to “wp_excerpt reloaded” plugin and the plugins cuts the verse after some words, even if the verse is on the top of the post (normally it should cut after 50 words). But on the single post page the verse is completly broken but the layout is shown correct.
I would like to help your more, but I don’t want to play arount with my Blog too much. If my PC is working again I will test your plugin on localhost. Maybe I’ll find out what the problem is.
One small error, I see on the HTML output of my frontpage, is, that one space is missing in your links between “href” and class= greek.
I could send you the HTML output of my frontpage. This shows you how my frontpage looks like if your plugin is activated and a verse is included into a post. Alle the Links are non-relative and pointing to my site. So this HTML page looks exactly like my Blog. Unfortunatly I forgot to save the output of the single post page. And I don’t want to activate and change the whole stuff again. Just send me an eMail and I’ll send you the HTML.