Georg Kloster Bible Reader is a Bible reading and study plugin for WordPress.
- Choose the translations available to visitors and the default translation.
- Read chapters, search Scripture, and share direct links to verses.
- Compare translations using stored verse correspondences, including different chapter numbering.
- Open commentary, cross references, Strong entries, dictionaries, and atlas images.
- Embed a passage or the full reader with Gutenberg blocks or shortcodes.
- Use the app-style reader shell, book/chapter/verse navigation, reading settings, continuous chapters, and a full-screen reading mode.
- Keep bookmarks, notes, highlights, saved passages, memory cards, and optional reading history in the visitor’s browser.
- Cache chapters locally for one year and study responses for 90 days.
- Download selected editions in small background batches with progress, pause/resume, and refresh.
- Keep previously imported BibleQuote modules through the local reader.
English source interface with Russian and German translations. The WordPress.org
package uses translate.wordpress.org language packs; the standalone installation
package includes bundled translations. Until a language pack is published,
the WordPress.org package uses English for that language.
No calendar or daily reading widgets are included.
External services
This plugin uses Bible Desktop, operated by the plugin author Vladimir Atapin,
at https://bible-desktop.com/api/ to retrieve public Bible texts, translation
catalogs, stored verse locations, search results, commentary, cross references,
Strong entries, dictionaries, and dictionary map images.
Activation makes no external request. The one-time setup page explains the
connection. No request is sent until an administrator explicitly checks the
connection consent checkbox and saves the settings. After consent, requests
occur when settings load or refresh the catalog, visitors request uncached
or outdated content, or an administrator starts/resumes a background download.
Revoking consent stops external requests and scheduled downloads.
Requests originate from the WordPress server and include its IP address, a
plugin/version User-Agent, and the requested translation, book, chapter, verse,
dictionary/entry/image identifiers or search words. No visitor IP address,
WordPress login, email, cookies, bookmark, reading history, or installation
identifier is forwarded. This plugin does not call translation AI or OpenAI.
Search words are not permanently saved by the plugin; the external service
may keep technical request logs as described in its privacy policy.
Terms: https://bible-desktop.com/pages/api-terms
Privacy: https://bible-desktop.com/pages/api-privacy
Credits
Monomakh Unicode: Copyright 2025 The Monomakh Project Authors.
SIL Open Font License 1.1, included in assets/fonts/OFL-Monomakh.txt.
Source: https://github.com/slavonic/Monomakh
Plugin source and reproducible packaging/translation scripts:
https://github.com/VAtapin/georg-kloster-bible-reader
Screenshots
Connection settings, available Bible translations, and reader options.
Bible chapter view with reading controls.
Book, chapter, and verse navigation.
Bible chapter with the commentary panel.
Selected-verse study actions and saved passage tools.
Dictionaries and maps available for the selected translation.