Description
Holy Rosary brings a fully interactive, step-by-step Rosary prayer guide to your WordPress website. Perfect for Catholic parishes, prayer groups, schools, and personal devotion sites.
Features
- Interactive bead tracker with animated rosary — gold beads, blue decade beads, and a heart centerpiece
- Auto-detects today’s mystery set (Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful, Glorious)
- Full step-by-step guidance through all 59 beads + cross
- Complete prayer texts: Apostles’ Creed, Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be, Fatima Prayer
- Closing prayers: Hail Holy Queen, Final Prayer
- Additional prayers: Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Michael Prayer, Prayer to Saint Joseph
- Prayer streak tracker (requires login)
- Personal prayer intentions
- Community prayer wall with moderation
- Simple shortcode: [holy_rosary]
- Gutenberg block support
- Translation-ready (i18n)
Usage
Add the Rosary to any page or post:
[holy_rosary]
With options:
[holy_rosary mystery="joyful" show_wall="false"]
Shortcode Attributes
mystery— auto | joyful | luminous | sorrowful | glorious (default: auto)show_wall— true | false (default: true)show_stats— true | false (default: true)
Screenshots
The interactive Rosary bead tracker with heart centerpiece 
Step-by-step prayer guidance with full prayer texts 
Admin settings page 
Prayer wall moderation
Blocks
This plugin provides 1 block.
- Rosary
Installation
- Upload the
holy-rosaryfolder to/wp-content/plugins/ - Activate the plugin from the Plugins menu in WordPress
- Add
[holy_rosary]to any page or post - Configure settings under Holy Rosary Settings
FAQ
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Does this work without an account?
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Yes. The Rosary guide works for all visitors. Prayer streak tracking and personal intentions require a WordPress user account.
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Can I use multiple instances on one page?
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Yes. You can add the shortcode multiple times on the same page.
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Is the prayer wall moderated?
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By default, yes. All submitted intentions require admin approval before appearing publicly. You can disable moderation under Holy Rosary Settings.
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Will my data be deleted if I uninstall?
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Only if you enable “Remove Data on Uninstall” in the Settings. By default, your data is preserved.
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Contributors & Developers
“Holy Rosary” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
1.0.0
- Initial release