By default RefTagger will tag only the bare Bible references on your site. If a Bible reference is already linked to Bible.Logos.com or another online Bible site, RefTagger will ignore it. So you won’t get the cool tooltips to show up on references you’ve already linked manually.
We’ve received some feedback from people who want to be able to link Bible references to Bible.Logos.com and have RefTagger add the tooltips, so we’ve decided to add support for it. It also works with Ref.ly links, which is perfect if you syndicate your Twitter feed to your blog.
Here are a couple of examples:
- Ro 8:28 (linked to http://bible.logos.com/passage/Ro8.28)
- Jn 3:16 (linked to http://ref.ly/Jn3.16)
All you need to do to enable this new functionality is add one additional line of code to the RefTagger script code in the footer of your site. Simply add
Logos.ReferenceTagging.lbsConvertHyperlinks = true;
to the RefTagger JavaScript code anywhere before the line
Logos.ReferenceTagging.tag();
This will tell RefTagger to add tooltips to all of the Bible references that are hard linked to Bible.Logos.com or Ref.ly.
Why would you want to do this? Well, since RefTagger uses JavaScript, Bible references in your site’s feed don’t get linked because the JavaScript code runs only on your site, not in your readers’ feed reader (e.g., Google Reader or Bloglines). If you want your Bible references to be linked in your feed, you’ll have to link them manually (or use this hack to save a little time). Before, you had to choose between linking your Bible references to Bible.Logos.com or using RefTagger. Now you can do both and enjoy the best of both worlds.
Any plans to have RefTagger supply passages as well as single verses?
Ken, RefTagger will currently display up to 250 or so characters. This allows for almost all verses to be displayed in their entirety and many short ranges of verses as well. My understanding is that we can't have the tooltip window resize to show more content because JavaScript won't allow it for security reasons when the code is hosted on a site different from the one the website is hosted on.
It's a great idea to give away some Bibles.
Maybe I am dreaming about this...but what if you could run RefTagger on your computer in the background (like a widget or background program) so anytime you have a program running (be it Word, PPT, IE, Safari...whatever) and a scripture is referenced (in a predetermined way) RefTagger would allow you to load it. Would this be too taxing on the system? Maybe a feature you could turn off and on?
all about Christ,
David Buckham
Thanks for the suggestion, David. We don't have any immediate plans to make something like this, but it's definitely on the list for consideration.
Thanks for doing this!
I can link to Bibles on line. How do you have the refTagger in a PowerPoint presentation when there is no internet access?
Thanks
Unfortunately, RefTagger does not work offline.
I'm looking for a way to sidestep reftagger on our drupal install for a single instance. Example: A title references a Bible verse and I don't want it highlighted nor linked. Is there a way to accomplish this?
You can specify certain tags or classes to have RefTagger skip. More details at http://www.logos.com/reftagger.