About 4 months ago we covered RefTagger’s WordPress Plugin and was pleasantly surprised by it’s ease of use and simplicity of installation.
Apparently there has been much more use of it besides blogs: Over 7,500 sites have used it and the requests have peaked over 100 million.
That’s a lot of Scripture requests for one little app, and that’s not a bad thing! Let’s hope they meet their goal of 1 Billion served in 2009!
Full Press Release below (courtesy of Ryan Burns @ Logos)!
RefTagger Serves Over 100 Million Bible Verses
BELLINGHAM, WA—March 6, 2009—In just one year since its release, RefTagger has delivered over 100 million interactive Bible verses across more than 7,500 websites.
Developed by Logos Bible Software, RefTagger (www.reftagger.com) is a free web tool that webmasters can install to dynamically deliver the text of Bible references within their website. The overwhelming success of RefTagger is due to its ease of use for both webmasters and site visitors.
“We had long been looking for a tool that would display the Bible verses that we reference on our site,” said Shea Houdmann, Director of GotQuestions.org. “Before RefTagger, every option we looked into was either too expensive or too difficult to program into our site.”
Using Reftagger, Houdmann was able to transform over 5,000 Bible references on GotQuestions.org into dynamic links which reveal the referenced text.
Before RefTagger, sites like GotQuestions.org had to choose between leaving references bare, manually building links to Bible websites, or copying and pasting Bible text into their site.
None of these were good options. However, RefTagger alleviates the problem entirely. Sharing the text of Scripture is now as easy as typing out the Bible reference—RefTagger does all the work automatically.
Since installing RefTagger, GotQuestions.org has received numerous emails thanking them for adding the functionality.
RefTagger works on any size website or blog, and can be installed quickly and easily by anyone with minimal web knowledge.
RefTagger pulls Bible texts from Bible.Logos.com, and webmasters can choose from over 25 different translations to display. Webmasters wanting to give their site visitors more control can install the RefTagger control panel to their site which allows users to select the Bible translation RefTagger will display.
With 100 million verses under their belt, Logos Bible Software is aiming to serve 1 billion verses in 2009.
Additional information and examples of active RefTagger sites are available at: http://www.RefTagger.com.
About the Company
Logos Bible Software, a privately held corporation located in Bellingham, Wash., is the leading publisher of high-end, award-winning, multilingual Bible software. The company serves church, academic and lay markets, striving to bring the best in software innovation to Christians worldwide. Logos can be found on the web at: http://www.logos.com.
Jim says
I love Logos Software and the fact that they heart WordPress…Word!
human3rror says
i know. they're awesome.
Ryan Burns says
I can't claim that the whole company loves WP, but there is no doubt that I do! I'm always pushing for us to build our micro sites on WP. We have a couple, like Bible Study Magazine that are built with plain-ole-html and I continually ask myself, "Why isn't this in WP?!?!?"
As for RefTagger, we really wish WP would add it to wp.com. There are lots of folks asking for it, but getting a plugin passed into wp.com is no easy task!
Jim says
thanks for the ree-plie!
Jim says
thanks for the ree-plie!
Ray says
there is a plug-in reftagger for wordpress already. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/reftagger/
human3rror says
thanks!