Aistore Bhagavad Gita

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

1. Upload the aistore-bhagavad-gita folder to wp-content/plugins/
2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress
3. Go to Dashboard > Bhagavad Gita to configure settings
4. Create a page and add the shortcode [AistoreBhagavadGita]
5. 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.

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