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To Bible links any bible reference (e.g. \"Genesis 20:1\" (en) or \"Lukas 5,3\" (de)) you write in a post automatically to the appropriate bible verse(s) at bibleserver.com.<\/p>\n\n<p>You can hereby choose from many different bible versions in different languages. (See https:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/webmasters for all availabe languages and bible versions.)<\/p>\n\n<p>Bibleserver.com detects language specific the most common notations of bible references.<\/p>\n\n<h4>Notes<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>This plugin uses the webservice of bibleserver.com<\/li>\n<li>The links to bibleserver.com are added while saving a post, because the requests to bibleserver.com are limited per day and site. For posts created before activating 'Link-To-Bible' and never saved since then, the links to bibleserver.com are added when the post is viewed the first time.<\/li>\n<li>Changing an already linked bible reference (e.g. \"Gen 1,2\" -&gt; \"Gen 2,1\"), saving the post will automatically update the link to bibleserver.com.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>Privacy<\/h4>\n\n<p>The following information is transmitted to bibleserver.com to add the links:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Your API-Key<\/li>\n<li>The URL of your blog<\/li>\n<li>The selected bible version<\/li>\n<li>The text of your post including all markups (and may be content or markup added by other plugins or themes)<\/li>\n<li>The version of this plugin, the version of your wordpress installation and the php version running your wordpress installation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>For more information see the privacy statement of bibleserver.com: https:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/webmasters\/#privacy<\/p>\n\n<h4>License<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>This plugin is licensed under the GPLv3. (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/licenses\/gpl.html). You can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial blog.<\/li>\n<li>It is published with the explicit permission of bibleserver.com (ERF Medien e.V.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>Translation<\/h4>\n\n<p>Although the bible versions at bibleserver.com are available in many different languages, 'Link To Bible' itself is just available in English and German. 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(Adding 'LTB_DISABLE' to an existing post with existing links to bibleserver.com will not remove these existing links.)<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"can%20i%20set%20the%20bible%20version%20per%20post%3F\"><h3>Can I set the bible version per post?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Yes. You can set the bible version by adding a custom field to the post with 'LTB_BIBLEVERSION' as the key and the bible version code from bibleserver.com (https:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/webmasters\/) as the value. 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