About this plugin
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🌳 Free Features Included in GeneaCanvas
- Fluid Interactive D3.js Canvas: Smooth drag, pan, and zoom controls optimized for both desktop and mobile touchscreens.
- Organic Layout: Staggering structure that prevents overlapping nodes, ensuring clean and readable descendant trees.
- Pedigree / Ancestors View: Focus on a specific person and instantly generate a clean, direct-line ancestor chart (bottom-up) excluding collateral lines.
- Level of Detail (LOD) / Dot Mode: Automatically compresses complex family nodes into lightweight vector dots at high zoom-out levels for smooth rendering.
- Real-time Search & Focus: Instant ancestor search with auto-pan and smooth highlight animations focusing on the searched branch.
- Interactive Ancestor Sidebar: Clicking any person slides out a detailed profile card displaying birth/death dates, locations, and immediate family navigation (spouse, children & in-laws).
- Unlimited Individuals & Trees: Full freedom to import and publish family databases of any size.
- Native Shortcode Integration: Embed trees anywhere using the simple [gcanvas_tree id="YOUR_ID"] shortcode.
- Translation Ready: Fully localized with English, Polish, German, French, Spanish, and Italian included.
👑 Premium Capabilities in GeneaCanvas PRO
Need advanced features for family reunions, privacy protection, printing, or active family collaboration? The GeneaCanvas PRO extension unlocks:
- GDPR / Living Relatives Password Protection: Automatically mask sensitive dates and details of living family members from public view, allowing trusted relatives to unlock the full tree with a password.
- Family Media Vault (Ancestor Portraits): Assign portraits directly from your WordPress Media Library via a visual filterable grid. Displays elegant outer-edge card portraits on the D3.js canvas and an enlarged 90×130px photo in the profile sidebar.
- Family Suggestions & Crowdsourcing: Let family members contribute! Relatives can submit missing dates, facts, and portrait photos via a clean frontend modal. Includes email alerts and a side-by-side moderation table (Current vs. Proposed) in wp-admin with 100% non-destructive GEDCOM safety.
- Hourglass View: Place a selected person in the center to simultaneously visualize their ancestors extending upwards and descendants downwards.
- Kinship Calculator & Visual Lines: Automatically calculate exact relationships between any two family members (including through spouses), set Person A / Person B directly from profile cards, and draw dynamic connecting lines across the canvas.
- High-Resolution Vector Export (PDF / SVG): Generate ultra-sharp, lossless vector files ready for large-format poster printing.
- Extended Profile Modal & Geotagging: Access the full depth of your GEDCOM data, including notes, historical sources, and life events plotted on interactive maps.
- Theme & Style Customizer: Switch between curated color palettes and customize visual styles directly from the dashboard.
- Priority Support: Fast assistance and automated background updates.
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📂 Broad GEDCOM Compatibility
1 specification and supports exports from all major genealogy software and platforms:
- Gramps
- RootsMagic
- Family Tree Maker (FTM)
- MyHeritage
- Ancestry.com
- Legacy Family Tree
- Ahnenblatt