WP Genealogy – Your Family History Website

Easily build a family history site on your WordPress site

The plugin for anyone wanting to build a family history website. Manage and share family data with ease.

Thanks for checking us out. We hope you like the plugin. It’s fairly new and quite powerful, but if you do happen to find a bug or have features you would like to see, please don’t leave a bad review! Instead let us know by posting feedback or help requests here

This plugin includes –

WPGenealogy Features

• Set up wizard to help you get started
• Create records for up to 200 family members (unlimited in Premium version)
• Multiple types of family chart (“family trees”) showing ancestors and descendants
• Options to display vertical, horizontal, compact and text only charts
• Family member reports showing personal information and relatives
• Individual person time lines showing key personal events (plus can add additional events such as historical dates)
• Options to allow users to download family information via PDF
• Allow visitors to search for family members on multiple criteria
• Control access to your family information
• Enable logged in users to collaborate in your project with suggestions and editing rights
• Easy to configure family history hub landing page
• Shortcode enabling you to insert a descendants chart on any blog post or page

WPGenealogy Premium Version

• Import and export Gedcom format files
• Allow users to download Gedcom family files
• Add multiple separate families
• Display an unlimited number of generations in a single tree
• Add photos to tree and family reports
• Style your family tree to suit your site – add colours (eg show male and female in different colour boxes)
• Add additional fields for recording different facts
• Enhanced shortcode add ancestor charts on any page or post in your blog

Links

• Documentation
• Project Site

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• FamilyHistory.Zone – keep up-to-date with genealogy news and advice
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Manual Install From WordPress Dashboard

If your server is not connected to the Internet, then you can use this method-

1. Download the plugin by clicking on the blue ‘Download’ button above. A ZIP file will be downloaded.
2. Login to your site’s admin panel and navigate to Plugins -> Add New -> Upload.
3. Click ‘Choose File’, select the plugin file and click install.

Install Using FTP

If you are unable to use any of the methods due to internet connectivity and file permission issues, then you can use this method-

1. Download the plugin by clicking on the blue ‘Download’ button above. A ZIP file will be downloaded.
2. Unzip the file.
3. Launch your favourite FTP client. Such as FileZilla, FireFTP, CyberDuck etc. If you are a more advanced user, then you can use SSH too.
4. Upload the folder to wp-content/plugins/
5. Log in to your WordPress dashboard.
6. Navigate to Plugins -> Installed
7. Activate the plugin.

1. 

   Front end: Built in Default Family History Hub Page

2. 

   Front end: Example of a Customized Family History Hub Page

3. 

   Front end: Person Report - Free Version

4. 

   Front end: Person Report - Premium Version

5. 

   Front end: Surnames List and Popularity Chart

6. 

   Front end: Family Chart

7. 

   Front end: Standard Ancestor Chart

8. 

   Front end: Vertical Ancestor Chart

9. 

   Front end: Compact Ancestor Chart

10. 

    Front end: Text Ancestor Chart

11. 

    Front end: Standard Descendants Chart

12. 

    Front end: Compact Descendants Chart

13. 

    Front end: Text Descendants Chart

14. 

    Front end: Allow Users to Suggest a Change

15. 

    Front end: Allow Users to Create and Download PDF Reports

16. 

    Set Up Wizard: Screen 1 - Name the Page you want your Family History hub to display in

17. 

    Set Up Wizard: Screen 2 - Configure Welcome Page Image, Text and Links

18. 

    Set Up Wizard: Screen 3 - Add a Family Group (Tree) and optional Sub-group (Branch)

19. 

    Set Up Wizard: Screen 4 - Add First Family Member or (Premium Version) Import Gedcom

20. 

    Set Up Wizard: Screen 5 - Support Information

21. 

    Back end: Manage Your Information from a Central Dashboard

22. 

    Back end: Family History Hub Set up and Configuration Options

23. 

    Back end: People List Page

24. 

    Back end: Manage Gedcom Tags and Create Unique Life Events

25. 

    Back end: Add Places

26. 

    Back end: Add Personal or Historical Events to Family Member Timelines

27. 

    Back end: Customize the Design of Charts Built with the Shortcode

0.1.9 – 11 February 2025

• Freemius SDK verion 2.11.0
  = 0.1.0 – 20 July 2021
  • Beta Test
    = 0.1.1 – 23 December 2021
  • Update SDK
    = 0.1.2 – 20 January 2021
  • Update / Fix
    = 0.1.3 – 21 October 2022
  • Activation Fix