Bible Verse Tooltips – Prodigal Verse
Prodigal Verse shows your readers a Bible verse the moment they hover it — without sending them away from what they’re reading. It finds references you’ve already written, like “John 3:16”, and turns them into verse links automatically. When you want more control, you can link any phrase you choose:
Prodigal Verse shows your readers a Bible verse the moment they hover it — without sending them away from what they’re reading. It finds references you’ve already written, like “John 3:16”, and turns them into verse links automatically. When you want more control, you can link any phrase you choose: “for God so loved the world” instead of the citation.
Everything runs on your own server. Three complete translations — the World English Bible, King James Version, and Berean Standard Bible — ship with the plugin. There is no API key to request, no account to create, and no request to any outside service. Your site keeps working if someone else’s service goes down, because there is no other service. Your readers’ data never leaves your site.
Features
- Works the moment you activate it. Bible references already in your posts become verse links with no setup and no editing — the automatic linking finds each reference and links it for you.
- Or link any phrase you like. Select text, click one button, pick a reference. Your words carry the verse.
- Three translations included — World English Bible (WEB), King James Version (KJV), Berean Standard Bible (BSB).
- No external requests. At all. No API key, no account, no tracking, no cookies, no third-party service. Privacy-respecting and GDPR-friendly by construction.
- Fast. Verse text is embedded as the page renders, so the tooltip popup opens instantly. Under 25KB of CSS and JavaScript, loaded only on pages that use it.
- Works everywhere. Hover on desktop, tap on mobile, full keyboard and screen-reader support (WCAG 2.1 AA).
- Set a translation for your whole site , and override it for any individual verse.
- You stay in control. Turn automatic linking off, exclude specific phrases, or switch off outbound links entirely.
- No upsell. No pro version, no nag screens, no dashboard ads.
For churches, ministries, and writers
Whether you run a church website, publish sermon notes, write a devotional blog, or maintain any Christian ministry site, references like “Romans 5:8” or a whole passage citation become living links — readers see the scripture verses in place, then can click through to read the full chapter for context.
