ChroniclePress is a WordPress plugin that helps you organize and publish historical information on your website — people, places, and sources — in a way that’s connected, searchable, and easy for your visitors to explore.
If you’ve ever found yourself with a collection of research scattered across posts, pages, and spreadsheets, ChroniclePress gives it a home. Every person, every place, and every source you enter becomes its own structured entry on your site, linked to the other entries it relates to.
Who is ChroniclePress for? #
ChroniclePress is built for anyone who publishes historical research on a WordPress site, including:
- Family historians and genealogists who want to share their research online
- Local historians documenting the people and places of a community
- Historical societies and preservation organizations building a public archive
- Bloggers and writers who cover history and want to organize the people and places they write about
You don’t need any technical background to use it. If you can write a blog post in WordPress, you can use ChroniclePress.
What does it do? #
When you install ChroniclePress, your WordPress site gains three new types of content alongside your regular posts and pages:
- People — entries for the historical individuals in your research
- Places — entries for locations, buildings, towns, counties, or any geographic subject
- Sources — entries for the documents, records, books, and archives your research draws from
Each of these can hold detailed information specific to its type. A person entry has fields for birth and death dates, occupation, and location. A place entry has fields for when it was established, its modern-day equivalent, and coordinates. A source entry holds citation details like author, date, publisher, and repository.
More importantly, these entries are connected to each other. A person can be linked to the places they lived and the sources that document their life. A source can be linked to every person it mentions. When a visitor reads about one subject, they can easily discover everything else on your site that relates to it.
ChroniclePress also gives you tools to display this information in your content. You can embed a featured card for any person, place, or source anywhere on your site using a block in the WordPress editor — no coding required.
What ChroniclePress is not #
ChroniclePress is not genealogy software. It won’t build a family tree, calculate relationships between relatives, or export a GEDCOM file. It is a publishing tool — its job is to help you present historical information on the web in a clear, organized, and connected way.
