Verse of the Day Widget for WP

The Verse of the Day Widget for WP plugin delivers daily Bible verses over stunning AI-generated static or animated nature scenery, offering both spiritual inspiration and dynamic visual beauty. Each day, a verse from the King James Version (KJV) is elegantly presented over a unique background, the same verse on every site running the widget, so your visitors share a true verse of the day. These traditional or modern scenes are generated by AI and served in Google’s efficient WebP format, featuring over 100 animated images and more than 50 static background images. Now, with ChatGPT powered language translation, you can provide these verses in over 100 languages, making it easy to inspire a global audience. While many tools like Google Translate prioritize modern readability, this plugin utilizes ChatGPT to translate the King James Version (KJV) English Bible text into over 100 languages. This approach aims to maintain a more formal phrasing and emphasis, aligning with the traditional and often literal style of the KJV itself. Verse of the Day Widget for WP includes two distinct widgets optimized for different placements: a header widget and a compact sidebar widget.

Watch our YouTube demo videos to learn more about how this widget works and its features: – Widget Placement Demo: Watch the demo here – Language Translation Demo: Watch the demo here

Key Features:

• Daily Bible Verses: Automatically updates each day with a KJV verse chosen from a curated library of 75 verses bundled right inside the plugin, no external verse service required. Every site displays the same verse on the same date, and the selection never repeats on consecutive days. More verses are added as the widget is updated.
• Multilingual Support: Powered by ChatGPT, the widget now offers Bible verses in over 100 languages, ensuring accessibility for users around the world.
• Animated Backgrounds: Choose to display verses over beautiful, AI-generated animated WebP backgrounds. Options include using only animated images, only static images, or a mix of both for a more engaging experience.
• Beautiful Nature Photos: Each verse is displayed over a high-quality, AI-generated nature image, providing a visually appealing experience.
• Extensive Background Library: Featuring over 100 animated images and more than 50 static background images for a rich and varied visual experience.
• Font Customization: Personalize the widget’s appearance by choosing from 18 professional fonts, including Roboto, Open Sans, Inter, Lato, Source Sans Pro, Raleway, Montserrat, Nunito, EB Garamond, Merriweather, Playfair Display, Lora, Crimson Text, Roboto Mono, Source Code Pro, Fira Code, Poppins, and Quicksand.
• Dual Widget Design: Comes with two specialized widgets—one designed for prominent header placement and another optimized for sidebars, ensuring a perfect fit for your theme’s layout.
• Shortcode Support: Includes separate, reliable shortcodes for both the header and sidebar widgets ([votd_header_widget] and [votd_sidebar_widget]) for easy embedding anywhere on your site.
• Flexible Placement (Widgets & Shortcodes): Seamlessly add widgets to your header, footer, or sidebar.

Third-Party Service

The daily Bible verses themselves are bundled locally inside the plugin (data/verses.json) and require no external service. When the verse language is set to English (the default), this plugin makes no network requests for verse content. (The only other possible external request is the Google Fonts CDN, and only until fonts are self-hosted — see “Third-Party Fonts & Licenses” below.)

When a language other than English is selected, the plugin uses one third-party service:

Verse of the Day Widget for WP Translation API – Translates the day’s KJV verse into the selected language. The request is made server-side by your WordPress site (never by your visitors’ browsers), at most once per language per day, and the result is cached locally until midnight. – Data Sent: The verse text and the selected language code. No personal data, visitor data, or site data is sent, collected, or stored. – Access: https://www.freesmartphoneapps.com/verseoftheday/api/translate-verse/ – Privacy Policy: https://freesmartphoneapps.com/privacy-policy-votd/ (Updated 2025-05-21).

OpenAI API – This API is used to translate the Bible verses into over 100 languages, ensuring a multilingual experience. – Personal Data: The API does not collect or store any personal data. – Access: The API is accessed at https://api.openai.com/v1. – Privacy Policy: Refer to OpenAI’s privacy policy here: https://openai.com/privacy.

Third-Party Fonts & Licenses

This plugin offers 18 Google Fonts as font-family options. When downloaded via Settings > “Download & Self-Host All Fonts,” the actual font files are saved to this plugin’s own /fonts/ directory (one subfolder per font, each including a LICENSE.txt). Both licenses below permit free use, modification, and self-hosted redistribution:

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (Roboto, Roboto Mono) —€” http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
• SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1 (Open Sans, Inter, Lato, Source Sans Pro, Raleway, Montserrat, Nunito, EB Garamond, Merriweather, Playfair Display, Lora, Crimson Text, Source Code Pro, Fira Code, Poppins, Quicksand) —€” https://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Until a given font is self-hosted, it is instead loaded live from Google Fonts under the same license terms; see “Third-Party Service” above for that data flow.