Start date for plans?

At present all of the plans start on 1 January.

If you use the (Create Bible Reading Plans) plugin you could have your plan start at a certain date and then wrap around, so to speak, to do a whole year (e.g., from 1 September to 31 August.

It would be possible, however, to add such a feature to the Bible Reading Plans plugin at some future date.

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Ok. I would like to take a look at the create a plan plugin. The other problem I see is the pace. For our purpose, the plan needs to span more than a year or there or just too many scriptures per day.

Would it be easy, in that program, to create a plan based on an existing plan, but spread it out with smaller chunks per day?

At present the Create Bible Reading Plans plugin can only create plans for a year. I have, however, had someone else request the ability to have plans stretch over more than one year, so have thought about it a bit.

What if the years were a, b, c, etc., with a start year specified? I’m pretty sure I could make that work. Or would you suggest a different approach.

Until I am able to make those changes, however, you might try:

• Daily Light on the Daily Path — Morning and Daily Light on the Daily Path — Evening for short Scriptures, but which don’t cover the whole Bible.
• Book of Common Prayer, 2019, Anglican Church in North America — Two Year Plan, which covers nearly all of the Bible in two years. (This is the plan I use personally.)
• Or use Gospel and Epistles for year one, Pentateuch and History of Israel for year two, Psalms and Wisdom Literature for year three, and Chronicles and Prophets for year four. (Personally, I would not like this a lot, but it would spread the readings out.)

Let me know what you think.

I suppose there could also be a way for me to add a feature to the Bible Reading Plans to somehow spread a plan out, e.g., such that if a plan had three scripture readings for a day they would be available on three consecutive days. It would probably be easier, however, to make the changes to the Create Bible Reading Plans plugin which I discussed at the beginning of my previous post. And easier means it could be done sooner.

Our goal is to do a full bible chronological plan, at a conservative unrushed pace. We would stay on each “reading” for as long as necessary to reach the end of discussion. So we dont really think of this as “calendar days” bute more as “plan days” . The group would use the calendar to choose the “day” that we are on for discussion. So maybe what I am thinking is a way to not think of this in any connection to the calendar at all, but rather days of the plan. a particular set of readings may take a week before ready to move forward. other times we might do two “days” in one. Does that make sense?

For now we are going to use a chronological plan and just refer to the day that the group is collectively on for discussion. So Jan 1 is the first few days of reading, then Jan 2, etc. This will work, even though it seems odd.

I think that for individual readings, as it is is fine. But for group studies you want a way to switch off the calendar and just track progress.

I think that this could be done. I’ll plan to add this sort of approach to a future version.

It will be good, however, if I can be in touch with you as I develop these features to be sure it is what you need. So I’ll leave this open and try to get back to you in the not too distant future.

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I was just thinking… there is another option perhaps. Is it possible to set the date to display within the shortcode instead of pulling actual date? That would allow to be determine what “day” of the bible study shows up.

I’m not quite sure how this would work. Would you have 365 web pages on your site for this?