Simple History 5.1.0 released – with new experimental feature you can try

This release has some bugfixes but also a cool new thing for you to try out: the Admin Bar Quick View.

Try out our latest upcoming feature: the Admin Bar Quick View

The Quick View feature is a new feature that adds the last entries to the admin bar. Just activate experimental features in the settings and then – on any page! – hover your mouse over the “History” item in the admin bar to see a quick view of the latest log entries.

It will look something like this:

This makes it easy to quickly see what’s happening on the site, without the need to switch to the history feed page in a new tab or moving to a new page and then going back again. It’s a great way to keep track what other admins or users on a website is doing. Or just to remember what you have done yourself.

Also, for performance reasons the log is not loaded until a user moves the cursor over the history item in the admin bar. So even if the shortcut to the history is added to all pages, there is no overhead due to loading the history or anything like that. All your pages will be a snappy as they were before.

This new log view is also reachable from the frontend of a website, so you can browse your site and at any moment easily and quickly see what’s going on in the admin area:

Changelog

Added

  • Add “Admin Bar Quick View” as experimental feature. This new feature adds a “History” link in the admin bar, that when hovered shows the latest events.
    This is very convenient when you quickly want to check the latest events without leaving the page you are on.
    (This feature is experimental and can be enabled on the settings page.) #476
  • Add helper function get_settings_page_url().
  • Add helper function sh_dd().

Changed

  • Tested on WordPress 6.7.

Fixed

  • Use selected WP admin theme colors for colors in links and buttons. #463
  • Add pagination buttons to first page and last page. #479
  • Add option to go enter page number to go to. #479
  • Fix username not always showing in the event details modal.