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Simple History 5.10.0: New Search Filters, CSV Export Options & More

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Simple History 5.10.0 brings several useful improvements to your WordPress activity logging. This update focuses on making your log data more accessible, shareable, and compatible with your existing WordPress setup.

What’s New in 5.10.0

This update features some smaller fixes to increase the plugin compatibility with third-party login plugins. It also adds some useful new features: linkable/bookmarkable search filters, option to view more events from a user or event type, and support for header columns for the CSV export.

Let’s explore the highlights:

📌 Linkable/Bookmarkable Search Filters
When you search the log for a specific user, keywords, or message combinations, your search options are now stored in the page URL. This means you can bookmark frequently-used searches or share them with team members – perfect for recurring security checks or user activity monitoring.

🔍 Find and Filter Similar Events
Building on the URL-based filters, we’ve added options to the context menu that lets you instantly filter the log to show only events from the same user or event type as the current entry. This makes investigating related actions much faster.

📊 CSV Export with Headers
When exporting your logs to CSV, you can now include header names for each column, making your exported data immediately usable in spreadsheets and reporting tools without additional formatting.Let’s get into details of some of the new features:

How to Update

Update to Simple History 5.10.0 through your WordPress dashboard or download directly from the WordPress plugin repository.

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Full changelog

Added

  • Add option to include header row in CSV exports.
  • Add URL-based search filters for easy bookmarking and sharing of search selections.
  • Add option to view more events from the same user or for the same type of event.

Changed

  • Load icons from a separate CSS file for better cache busting.
  • Make interface even clearer by hiding some promo boxes if Premium is active.
  • Remove server_http_user_agent from user updates, user creation, user deletion. It is still available for user successful and failed logins. If support personal needs to know the user agent, the login event is the best place to find this. Note: if you need event more debug info, you can enable Detective Mode or get the Debug and Monitor add-on.
  • Use priority 1 for wp_login action instead of default 10 for better compatibility with auth plugins like Two Factor.
  • Improve performance of stats and summaries page.
  • Refactor query date_from and date_to parsing so sending in format Y-m-d means start/end of day automatically.

Fixed

  • Add log level notice to the GUI filters.
  • Remove duplicate date_gmt column from event details table.
  • Misc internal improvements.