Description
Aistore Bhagavad Gita is a feature-rich WordPress plugin that brings the timeless wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita to your website visitors.
Features
- 📖 Full Chapter & Verse Browser — Navigate all 18 chapters and 700 verses with an attractive card grid
- 🎵 Audio Recitation — Plays MP3 audio for each verse (add your own audio files)
- 🕉 Verse of the Day — A new verse automatically featured every day
- 🎲 Random Verse — Display a random verse with one-click refresh
- 🔍 Live Search — Instant AJAX search across all verse text AND chapter names
- ★ Favorites — Logged-in users can save and revisit favorite verses
- 📱 Social Sharing — Share verses on Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Telegram
- 📬 Daily Email Subscription — Visitors subscribe to receive the daily verse by email, with working unsubscribe
- 🗂️ Multiple Translations — Side-by-side translation tabs
- 🖼️ Chapter Images — Attractive card images for each chapter
- 📋 Commentary — Display commentary/purport for each verse
- 🔗 Sidebar Widget — Verse of the Day or Random Verse in any widget area
- 📱 Fully Responsive — Optimised for all screen sizes
- 🔒 Secure — CSRF protection, capability checks, proper output escaping throughout
Shortcodes
- [AistoreBhagavadGita] — Full chapter & verse browser
- [AistoreVerseOfDay] — Verse of the day block
- [AistoreRandomVerse] — Random verse with refresh button
- [AistoreSearch] — Standalone live-search box
- [AistoreFavorites] — User’s saved verses (requires login)
- [AistoreSubscribe] — Email subscribe form for daily verse
Installation
- Upload the aistore-bhagavad-gita folder to wp-content/plugins/
- Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress
- Go to Dashboard > Bhagavad Gita to configure settings
- Create a page and add the shortcode [AistoreBhagavadGita]
- Select that page in Settings so share links and email links work correctly
Adding Your Data Files
Place your JSON data files inside the plugin’s data/ folder:
- data/chapters.json – Chapter list
- data/verse.json – All verses
- data/commentary.json – Commentaries (optional, empty fallback included)
Adding Audio
Place MP3 files at: data/verse_recitation/{chapter_id}/{verse_number}.mp3
Example: data/verse_recitation/1/1.mp3
Adding Chapter Images
Place JPG files at: images/chapter1.jpg through images/chapter18.jpg
Also add images/default.jpg as a fallback for missing chapter images.
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Contributors & Developers
“Aistore Bhagavad Gita” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
2.0.1
- FIX: file_exists() now correctly uses filesystem path (not URL) for audio check
- FIX: rawurlencode() used for social share links (security improvement)
- FIX: Capability check added to all admin pages
- FIX: Email cron schedules from tomorrow 08:00, not immediately on activation
- FIX: commentary.json empty fallback included so missing file causes no errors
- NEW: Transient caching for JSON files (24-hour cache, greatly improves performance)
- NEW: Search now searches chapter names in addition to verse text
- NEW: Secure tokenised unsubscribe handler
- NEW: Loading state on nav buttons and subscribe button
- NEW: nl2br() applied to verse text to preserve line breaks
- NEW: Database indexes for performance
- NEW: Stats panel in admin sidebar
2.0.0
- Complete rewrite with all new features
1.0.0
- Initial release