Title: Pleasant Viewer
Author: Gabriel Serafini
Published: <strong>May 29, 2013</strong>
Last modified: February 6, 2026

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# Pleasant Viewer

 By [Gabriel Serafini](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gserafini/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/pleasant-viewer.1.3.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/pleasant-viewer/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/pleasant-viewer/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/pleasant-viewer/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/pleasant-viewer/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pleasant-viewer/)

## Description

Provides the ability to enter Bible and Science and Health citations and publish
and share the referenced text. Uses [cskit-rb](https://github.com/camertron/cskit-rb)
written by Cameron. We built this plugin as part of the “Hack Your Church” hackathon
at the U.C. Berkeley CSO. Participants / contributors include Gabriel, Julian, Cameron
and James.

Demonstration site here: [PleasantViewer.org](http://pleasantviewer.org)

Allows zero-signup (anonymous) posting of citations.

#### Shortcodes:

Insert `[pleasantviewer]` on a page to display a form to add citations. Note that
this will enable anonymous publishing of citations to your site. Citations are published
as WordPress posts.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Add citations form
 * [[
 * Displayed citations

## Installation

#### Install via Plugins > Install New

 1. Search for “Pleasant Viewer”
 2. Click the “Install Now” link
 3. Click “Activate Plugin”

#### Via ZIP / FTP

 1. Unzip the ZIP file and drop the folder straight into your wp-content/plugins directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

#### Use as a shortcode

Insert `[pleasantviewer]` on a page to display a form to add citations. Note that
this will enable anonymous publishing of citations to your site.

## FAQ

### Is Support Available?

Yes, use the contact form on the ShareThePractice.org [website](http://sharethepractice.org/contact/).

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Pleasant Viewer” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Gabriel Serafini ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gserafini/)

[Translate “Pleasant Viewer” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/pleasant-viewer)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pleasant-viewer/), 
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/pleasant-viewer/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/pleasant-viewer/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/pleasant-viewer/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.3

 * Security: Add nonce verification to form submission
 * Security: Sanitize all user input (sanitize_text_field, sanitize_textarea_field,
   absint)
 * Security: Escape all output (esc_html, esc_attr, esc_url, wp_kses, wp_kses_post)
 * Security: Add capability checks for post creation
 * Fix: Resolve JavaScript error on pages without the Pleasant Viewer form
 * Improvement: Modernize jQuery to use .on() event binding and .done()/.fail() 
   AJAX callbacks
 * Improvement: Add null guards for DOM element access
 * Improvement: Rename template file from underscore to hyphen convention
 * Improvement: Prefix all global functions with pleasantviewer_
 * Coding standards: Full PHPCS WordPress-Extra compliance

#### 1.2

 * Release date: October 31, 2018
 * Changed order of enqueued javascript to fix dependency

#### 1.1

 * Update API endpoints to use https, now should work on SSL served sites

#### 1.0

 * Initial release of plugin

## Meta

 *  Version **1.3**
 *  Last updated **2 months ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.9.4**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pleasant-viewer/)
 * Tags
 * [bible](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bible/)[christian science](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/christian-science/)
   [citations](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/citations/)[lesson](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/lesson/)
   [viewer](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/viewer/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/pleasant-viewer/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Gabriel Serafini ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gserafini/)

## Support

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