Ok, after much re-coding and mucking about the new version of the Verse of the Day plugin for WordPress is pretty much done. This is a preview release, so it may still have some bugs, but that’s why I’m releasing it into the wild now.
Consider this a soft release of the new plugin. I’ll announce it properly through all the usual places once I’m sure it’s 100% done. Comments and suggestions are very welcome here, although be aware that any new features will probably be put into the to-do list for next time. Bug fixes will get implemented ASAP.

You can download the new version from this page. I highly recommend that before you use this plugin, you read the instructions page here. (I’m also interested in any suggestions people may have on what should be on that page)

This is a completely new plugin, with a bunch of changes, the most obvious ones are that the program no-longer uses the troublesome cache files and the options are now set in an options page, not as parameters set in the code. This should make life a whole lot easier. Unfortunately this means that there is no support for WordPress versions less than 1.5. The old version of the plugin could do this because the code was a whole lot simpler. Now that the plugin is simpler to use, the code is more complex, and makes use of a number of nifty WordPress features that I was completely un-aware of 1st time around.

From a display perspective the plugin hasn’t changed, but the new options page now makes it easier to modify how the verse is displayed.

So please download it, try it out & let me know how it goes.