I finally to extract most of my hacks from widget.php that I mentioned in Hacking widget.php for WordPress. I created a widget plug-in called Verse of the Day with the changes since they are for the most unique to the Verse of the Day feed. Despite removing most of my hacks I did leave in one small hack. The widget.php has an IF statement in the widget_rss function that refers to a show_summary field. Since the field is never set in the program logic, it is always false. I wanted it to be true so it would show the RSS item description. In this case I wanted it to show the Quote of the Day from quotationspage.com. I could have forced the show_summary field to be true but by removing the IF statement logic I got another desirable feature and used less code.