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Name	Simple History
Version	2.0.23
Author	Pär Thernström
Rating	98
Last updated	2015-03-06 10:24:00
Downloads	104744
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Simple History plugin has no negative impact on PageSpeed score.

Home page PageSpeed score has been degraded by 0%, while Post page PageSpeed score has been degraded by 0%

Simple History plugin added 6 bytes of resources to the Home page and 7 bytes of resources to the sample Post page.

Simple History plugin added 0 new host(s) to the Home page and 0 new host(s) to the sample Post page.

Great! Simple History plugin ads no tables to your Wordpress blog database.

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Description

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
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 & logut
Failed user logins
see when someone has tried to log in, but failed. The log will then include ip address of the possible hacker.

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 very 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 calling the function simple_history_add() 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!");

}
?>

Translations/Languages

So far Simple History is translated to:

Swedish
German
Polish
Danish
Dutch

I'm looking for translations of Simple History in more languages! If you're interested please check out the localization part of the Plugin Handbook for info on how to translate plugins. When you're done with your translation email it to me at par.thernstrom@gmail.com, or add a pull request.

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