{"id":1013,"date":"2019-03-24T22:25:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T02:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2019-03-25T11:29:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T15:29:49","slug":"a-mystery-and-then-a-frantic-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=1013","title":{"rendered":"A Mystery and Then, a Frantic Search"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Old code is a liability…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I finished writing my previous <\/a>post<\/a> and dutifully clicked the big, yellow “Publish” button. I then clicked on the “View Post” link, wishing to see how it looked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surprise…! Look ma, no text!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The post title was there and the categories and tags … but the post text was missing. AWOL. Gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upon further inspection, it turned out that text from other posts were missing as well. Only text, mind you. The pictures were all there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Searching the rendered page’s source code yielded no clues. What happened then….?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Maybe there’s a CSS conflict with the theme.” Switched themes… no luck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“OK. Let’s see the plugins then.” Deactivated a bunch of plugins and voil\u00c3\u00a1! The text came back! Narrowing the choices, I was able to identify the culprit: Scripturizer<\/a>, an ancient<\/em> plugin who scanned for Bible references and converted them into hyperlinks to Bible text, with the additional convenience of providing hoverboxes showing the referenced Bible text on mouseover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the years, Scripturizer was a valuable addition to the site that provided convenience to my readers. But obviously I had to get rid of the plugin. It was too old and unmaintained. Thankfully it was just a bug and nothing worse what prompted me to change things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mystery solved, then. But now, I had to look for a replacement and find one soon<\/em>. What options do I have for a Scripturizer<\/em> replacement? I wanted to avoid any loss of functionality at all costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After checking out the (not so) many options available, I settled down on bVerse Convert<\/a>, a plugin released by the good folks at CrossedCode.com<\/a>. It has the right amount of features I was looking for and it’s simple to configure and deploy. I cannot be happier and I am grateful to CrossedCode for releasing such a wonderful plugin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honorable mention goes to the ESV Cross Reference Plugin<\/a>, released by CrossWay. I would have used it but the hoverbox is too small and it would resort too frequently to a scroll bar, something which I find it less than desirable. But it’s still a great option. I hope CrossWay keeps updating and refining the plugin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so the story ends, with a moral obvious enough: old code is all too frequently a liability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finished writing my previous post and dutifully clicked the big, yellow “Publish” button. I then clicked on the “View Post” link, wishing to see how it looked. Surprise…! Look ma, no text! The post title was there and the categories and tags … but the post text was missing. AWOL. Gone. Upon further inspection,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,6,1],"tags":[303,306,304,307,305,300,302,20],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-computers","category-faith","category-general","tag-bible","tag-bugs","tag-bverse-convert","tag-debugging","tag-esv-cross-reference-plugin","tag-plugin","tag-scripturizer","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}