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Simple History

Simple History

Version : 2.18
Tested up to : 4.8.2
Number of download : 561701
Average rating : 5 / 5 on 203 votes 203 votes, 5 avg.rating

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Simple History
Simple History
Simple History
Simple History

Simple History shows recent changes made within WordPress, directly on your dashboard or on a separate page. The plugin works as a log/history/audit log/version history of the most important events that occur in WordPress. Out of the box Simple History has support for: Posts and pages see who added, updated or deleted a post or page Attachments see who added, updated or deleted an attachment Taxonomies (Custom taxonomies, categories, tags) see who added, updated or deleted an taxonomy Comments see who edited, approved or removed a comment Widgets get info when someone adds, updates or removes a widget in a sidebar Plugins activation and deactivation User profiles info about added, updated or removed users User logins see when a user login & logout. Also see when a user fails to login (good way to catch brute-force login attempts). Failed user logins see when someone has tried to log in, but failed. The log will then include ip address of the possible hacker. Menu edits Option screens view details about changes made in the differnt settings sections of WordPress. Things like changes to the site title and the permalink structure will be logged. Support for third party plugins By default Simple History comes with built in support for the following plugins: User Switching The User Switching plugin allows you to quickly swap between user accounts in WordPress at the click of a button. Simple History will log each user switch being made. Enable Media Replace The Enable Media Replace plugin allows you to replace a file in your media library by uploading a new file in its place. Simple history will log details about the file being replaced and details about the new file. Limit Login Attempts The plugin Limit Login Attempts is old and has not been updated for 4 years. However it still has +1 million installs, so many users will benefit from Simple History logging login attempts, lockouts, and configuration changes made in the plugin Limit Login Attempts. Redirection The redirection plugin manages url redirections, using a nice GUI. Simple History will log redirects and groups that are created, changed, enabled or disabled and also when the global plugin settings have been modified. Duplicate Post The plugin Duplicate Post allows users to clone posts of any type. Simple History will log when a clone of a post or page is done. RSS feed available There is also a RSS feed of changes available, so you can keep track of the changes made via your favorite RSS reader on your phone, on your iPad, or on your computer. It’s a plugin that is good to have on websites where several people are involved in editing the content. The plugin works fine on multisite installations of WordPress too. Example scenarios Keep track of what other people are doing: “Has someone done anything today? Ah, Sarah uploaded the new press release and created an article for it. Great! Now I don’t have to do that.” Or for debug purposes: “The site feels slow since yesterday. Has anyone done anything special? … Ah, Steven activated ‘naughy-plugin-x’, that must be it.” See it in action See the plugin in action with this short screencast: API so you can add your own events to Simple History If you are a theme or plugin developer and would like to add your own things/events to Simple History you can do that by using the function SimpleLogger() like this: <?php if ( function_exists("SimpleLogger") ) { // Most basic example: just add some information to the log SimpleLogger()->info("This is a message sent to the log"); // A bit more advanced: log events with different severities SimpleLogger()->info("User admin edited page 'About our company'"); SimpleLogger()->warning("User 'Jessie' deleted user 'Kim'"); SimpleLogger()->debug("Ok, cron job is running!"); } ?> Check out the examples-folder for more examples. Translations/Languages So far Simple History is translated to: Swedish German Polish Danish Dutch Finnish French Russian I’m looking for translations of Simple History in more languages! If you want to translate Simple History to your language then read about how this is done over at the Polyglots handbook. Contribute at GitHub Development of this plugin takes place at GitHub. Please join in with feature requests, bug reports, or even pull requests! https://github.com/bonny/WordPress-Simple-History Donation & more plugins If you like this plugin don’t forget to donate to support further development. More WordPress CMS plugins by the same author.

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