WordPress Paranormal Database (WP-ParaDB)

[!WARNING] BETA SOFTWARE: This plugin is currently in active development. It may be buggy and features may change significantly between versions. Use with caution in production environments.

WP-ParaDB is a comprehensive, professional-grade WordPress plugin designed for paranormal researchers, parapsychologists, and investigation teams. It provides a standardized and secure platform for recording, archiving, and sharing paranormal witness reports, field observations, experiments, and detailed investigation cases.

🌟 Key Features

• Case Management: Organize investigations into comprehensive cases with linked activities, reports, and evidence.
• Team Assignments: Assign multiple team members to a case with customizable roles (Lead, Tech, Researcher, etc.).
• Mobile-Friendly Logging: "Log My Actions" feature designed for rapid field entry with auto-geolocation and attachment support.
• Activity Logging: Detailed tracking of site visits, interviews, and experiments.
• Environmental Data Integration: Automatically fetch weather, astronomical (moon phase), astrological (planetary transits), and geomagnetic (Kp-Index) data based on location and time.
• Evidence Handling: Securely upload and link photos, audio, and video files to cases and activities.
• Public Witness Submissions: A customizable public form for witnesses to submit their experiences directly to your database.
• Privacy & Redaction: Built-in tools to automatically or manually redact sensitive information from public-facing reports.
• Role-Based Access: Specialized user roles (Director, Team Leader, Investigator) to manage team permissions.
• Data Maintenance: Integrated tools for data backup (JSON), restoration, and complete scrubbing on uninstall.
• Address Book: Shared location database for consistent site tracking across cases and activities.

🚀 Installation

1. Download the latest release from the releases page.
2. Upload the wp-paradb folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
4. Navigate to ParaDB > Settings to configure your API keys and default options.

📖 Usage & Shortcodes

Full documentation is available directly within the WordPress admin under ParaDB > Documentation.

Main Shortcodes:

• [paradb_cases] - Displays a searchable grid of all published cases.
• [paradb_single_case id="123"] - Displays full details for a specific case.
• [paradb_witness_form] - Displays the public witness submission form.
• [paradb_log_book] - Displays a chronological log of all published activities and reports.

👥 Credits & Acknowledgments

WP-ParaDB is based on the original concepts and workflow of the ParaDB project.

We would like to extend our sincere thanks to Stephen Zarkos (szarkos) for the original idea and the significant work he put into the original ParaDB software. His contribution provided the inspiration and foundation for this WordPress implementation.

📄 License

This plugin is licensed under the GPL v3 or later.

Developed and maintained by Brian Chabot (brianchabot.org) 🔍👻