Bible Verse of the Day - Site Updated
Bible Verse of the Day site has been upgraded to WordPress 2. One of the most challenging problems was merging the old Bible posts into one. With WordPress 2, I was able to import old postings easily from the control panel. I used RSS import feature to merge old Bible posts from the old sites.
Because I moved the site three times, subdomain to other subdomains, I’m having some problem with search engine listings not ending up on the right page. I tried 301 redirect, but I wasn’t able to fix everything. Thus, I’ve decided to abandon already-indexed pages and start from scratch. I do have old posts imported, but the search engine listings will be lost. Hopefully my new pages get indexed faster this time. The site gets about 1,000 uniques a day and I believe the major portion of them are my daily Bible subscribers. I do get highly targetted visitors from the major search engines, but honestly I don’t know how it’s going to change after the upgrade.
But the upgrade had to be done because of the bad site structure at the beginning stage of the website creation. Well, I’m glad its done!
Special thanks to Joel at TwentyTen for the beautiful banner for the site.
January 3rd, 2006 at 5:30 pm
Happy New Year to you and your wife Bo!
I thought that the Bible was in Public Domain always. NIV proably got it from public domain when they first published theirs:)
Lin
January 3rd, 2006 at 11:57 am
Tim, I’m aware of the copyright issue with NIV. I have about 250 verses quoted from NIV so far. But thanks for reminding me about the issue.
For script code, if you register once for my blog, you won’t even have to put your name and email each time you post a comment.
January 3rd, 2006 at 10:55 am
I checked quickly and didn’t see any copyrights in there. You should definately post the whole “Scripture taken from yadda yadda” thing. NIV requires permission if you have more than 500 verses or the verses quoted account for twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the total text of the work in which they are quoted.
You might not think that they would do anything about it, but some are owned by companies who want to make money off the translation rather than others that make a translation solely for making a translation that is accurate. I know e-Sword can’t distribute NIV with it’s software, but ESV and KJV they can freely (and others they can but the user has to buy the “add-on”)
PS. Your security code is annoying. Every time I post I have to re-try it. You’d think zeros and O’s wouldn’t be in there, especially when you have to match the case of it.