An independent software studio

Tools built to last.

CodeByGreen is an independent studio making practical, beautiful software, built around the people who use it. First up: GeneLink — a WordPress plugin for building a family history your whole family can keep.

See the GeneLink demo → What we're building
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GeneLink family tree view

Software should earn its place.

Three things we don't treat as optional.

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Human-centered.

Built around how people actually work — the relative who isn't technical, the afternoon you finally sit down to organize it all. The software bends to you, not the other way around.

GeneLink lineage view

Beautiful.

What you're keeping deserves better than a gray admin grid. Tools you're glad to look at, and proud to share with your family.

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Built to last.

Yours, on your own terms — your data, your domain, no platform you can be evicted from.

What GeneLink does

The hard parts, handled.

Member search resolving variant spellings

Find anyone — even when the spelling fights you.

Names drift across generations and records. GeneLink's fuzzy and phonetic search finds the right person whether it's written Greene, Green, or Grene.

The lineage tree, several generations deep

Real lineage, generations deep.

GeneLink's relationship engine handles deep ancestry and tangled family lines without slowing down — the way family actually branches.

The member approvals and content review workflow

Everyone contributes. You stay in control.

Relatives can add people, dates, and stories. Submissions wait in an approval queue until you review them, so the record stays accurate as it grows.

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Your data

Your site. Your data. No monthly platform fee.

GeneLink runs natively on WordPress — your domain, your hosting, your database. No subscription holding your family's history hostage.

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For families & family historians

You've gathered names, dates, photos, and stories — maybe scattered across a dozen spreadsheets and a few shoeboxes. GeneLink gives them one home the whole family can search, add to, and pass down.

GeneLink settings inside the WordPress admin

For builders & agencies

A genuinely well-built genealogy and membership plugin: efficient relationship modeling, phonetic search, a real approvals workflow, and clean WordPress integration. Deliver heritage sites for clients without building the hard parts yourself.

The big platforms rent you your own history.

Subscription genealogy sites keep your family's record on their servers, behind their paywall, on their terms. GeneLink flips that: the data lives on your WordPress site. Stop paying and it's still yours. That's the whole point.

See it in action →
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The studio

Built by someone who's been doing this for twenty years.

CodeByGreen is the independent studio of Joseph Green — two decades building and leading software, now focused on small, sharp tools that are human-centered, beautiful, and made to be kept. GeneLink is the first. More are on the way.

See what GeneLink can do.

The live demo is the fastest way to understand it.

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