About this plugin
Estasoft Name Catalog turns WordPress into a searchable names database – useful for baby names, place names, or any structured name collection. Add entries one at a time through a simple admin screen, or bulk-import thousands (or hundreds of thousands) at once from a CSV, JSON, or Excel file, with a guided wizard: drag a file in, map its columns, preview the first rows, then watch live progress with an estimated time remaining.
Search and browse, with AJAX filtering by gender and origin, A-Z navigation, and search that matches a name’s meaning as well as its spelling. Kurdish Latin and Sorani (right-to-left) alphabets are supported natively.
SEO built in. Meta titles and descriptions (with a live Google-result preview), FAQPage and DefinedTerm structured data, Open Graph and Twitter cards, breadcrumbs, and automatic 301 redirects when a name or category is merged or removed – all independently toggleable, and all stepping aside automatically if Yoast, Rank Math, All in One SEO, or SEOPress is active.
Visitor tools, each its own shortcode and editor block: a personal “Namelist” visitors can save to and share, a name combination checker, a side-by-side comparison tool, a sibling-name generator, swipe-to-save discovery mode, a “name of the day,” and a Root Dictionary linking names that share a linguistic root.
Data quality tools for admins: find duplicates, spot names missing key fields, and merge categories that drifted apart (like “Boy” and “Male”) without creating duplicate taxonomy terms.
Built for scale. Imports and exports process in the background in batches, so even very large files never time out. An optional FULLTEXT search index and WP-CLI import support suit directories in the tens or hundreds of thousands of names.
Every database query is prepared or goes through WP_Query, every admin action is nonce-verified and capability-checked, and all output is escaped at the point of use.
See the FAQ below for the full shortcode list with every available attribute, and for more on the SEO, security, and performance details.
External services
This plugin does not contact any external service by itself. It makes no outbound requests from your server, and nothing is sent anywhere when a page loads.
The only links to outside services are the optional social share buttons on each name page. You choose which ones appear (or turn them all off) under Settings > Sharing. Each is an ordinary link that does nothing until a visitor clicks it.
When clicked, it opens that service in the visitor’s own browser and hands it two things so the service can pre-fill a post: the name page’s web address, and the short text “Check out the name” followed by the name. No other data from your site or from the visitor is sent by this plugin. What the service then does with that information is governed by its own terms and privacy policy:
- X (formerly Twitter), twitter.com/intent/tweet – receives the page address and share text. Terms of Service – Privacy Policy
- Facebook, facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php – receives the page address. Terms – Privacy Policy
- WhatsApp, api.whatsapp.com/send – receives the share text and page address. Terms of Service – Privacy Policy
- Pinterest, pinterest.com/pin/create/button/ – receives the page address and share text. Terms of Service – Privacy Policy
- Telegram, t.me/share/url – receives the page address and share text. Terms of Service – Privacy Policy
The “Copy Link” button does not use any external service; it copies the page address to the visitor’s own clipboard.