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WP PlugIndex currently records ForeBranch version 1.0.5 as active, updated 21d ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Overview
About this plugin
ForeBranch turns a GEDCOM export into browsable family history pages on your WordPress site. Keep doing your research in your usual genealogy program, export a GEDCOM, and import it here to share it with responsive templates.
ForeBranch is a publishing layer, not a genealogy program. Editing, sourcing, and day-to-day research stay in your desktop or online software.
Features
Import GEDCOM 5.5, 5.5.1, 5.5.5, and 7.0 files
Three import modes when re-importing an updated file:
Update tree: adds new people and updates matching people (same person IDs). Does not wipe the tree
New / replace tree: deletes everything in that tree, then imports the file
Add only: adds new people and families and leaves existing ones unchanged, including their events, sources, and media links
Public pages under /genealogy/ for the hub, people, families, surnames, sources, places, and search
Works with block themes (Full Site Editing) and classic themes
Hub statistics: people, families, surnames, sources, and places
Person and family pages show place names. Place pages show stored coordinates as text
Store coordinates for places manually (the plugin does not display a map)
Unlimited family trees
Living people are hidden from everyone except Administrators. A death date means the person is treated as deceased. With no death date, anyone younger than 120 years (the default, and adjustable) is treated as living. With no birth year, family clues are checked first; if those are inconclusive, the person is treated as living. Visitors see “Private” instead of the name, dates, and places
People can also be marked private in the admin. Visitors do not see their details
GEDCOM media records are imported (titles, filenames, and links). The image files themselves are not copied out of the GEDCOM; a GEDCOM only stores the file path
Privacy Policy
ForeBranch stores the genealogy data you import or enter in your WordPress database. It does not send personal or genealogical data to any external service.
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
family history
family tree
ancestry
gedcom
genealogy
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested with WP 7.1
Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.9 · PHP 8.2
Update activity12 Oct 202621d ago
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Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex
Recent tracked changes
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