Title: Family Wiki
Author: Alex Kirk
Published: <strong>September 9, 2022</strong>
Last modified: April 26, 2025

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# Family Wiki

 By [Alex Kirk](https://profiles.wordpress.org/akirk/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/family-wiki.1.1.9.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/family-wiki/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/family-wiki/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/family-wiki/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/family-wiki/)

## Description

This plugin transforms your WordPress install into a Wiki for keeping your family
history.

### Recommended setup

In wp-admin go to _Settings_  _Reading_ and set a static homepage. The plugin also
adds an option _I would like my site to be private, visible only to myself and users
I choose_ which will usually be an option you’ll want to use since only registered
users should be allowed to edit.

Create new users with _Wiki User_ (can edit pages) or _Wiki Editor_ (can also delete
pages). Unfortunately otherwise only the roles _Editor_ or _Administrator_ will 
allow them to edit pages.

If you created a calendar page, set the option `family_wiki_calendar_page`, for 
example with the cli command `wp option add family_wiki_calendar_page /Calendar`,
then the dates will be linked to that page.

### Advanced Custom Fields

The plugin has switched to using Advanced Custom Fields for wiki page metadata. 
Please install that plugin in version 6.2 or up. The fields should be automatically
restored using the provided JSON file in the `acf-json/` directory.

For each wiki page, you can enter data like birth or death date as well as mother/
father/children relationships. This data is used for the calendar page but also 
for automatically generating a short bio using the shortcode `[name_with_bio]`. 
You’d put this as the first thing in a wiki page.

### Gutenberg Blocks

The _Family Calendar_ block will show all dates from the wiki.

The _Birthday Calendar_ block will show all dates of living people (determined by`
showage`, see above) from the wiki.

### Performance

For displaying the red missing links or green external links, all pages are evaluated
on page load. This works for small sites but won’t work well if you have thousands
of pages.

**Development of this plugin is done [on GitHub](https://github.com/akirk/family-wiki).
Pull requests welcome. Please see [issues](https://github.com/akirk/family-wiki/issues)
reported there before going to the [plugin forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/family-wiki).**

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## Blocks

This plugin provides 2 blocks.

 *   Family Calendar
 *   Birthday Calendar

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Family Wiki” is open source software. The following people have contributed to 
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Alex Kirk ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/akirk/)

“Family Wiki” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/family-wiki/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Family Wiki” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/family-wiki)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/family-wiki/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/family-wiki/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/family-wiki/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/family-wiki/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

### 1.1.9

 * Translated ACF fields to German.
 * Lots of translation fixes.
 * Fix translation loading to translate.wordpress.org.
 * Redirect to the front page after logging in.
 * Improve output escaping.

### 1.1.0

 * Switch to using Advanced Custom Fields for metadata.

### 1.0.0

 * Initial version

## Community plugin

This plugin is developed and supported by a community. [Contribute to this plugin](https://github.com/akirk/family-wiki)

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.9**
 *  Last updated **1 year ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.8.6**
 *  PHP version ** 5.2.4 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/family-wiki/) and [German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/family-wiki/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/family-wiki)
 * Tags
 * [family](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/family/)[wiki](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wiki/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/family-wiki/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Alex Kirk ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/akirk/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/family-wiki/)