Simple History 5.25.0 makes your activity log database smaller and your searches faster. Even on a typical site, activity logs can quietly accumulate more data than you need — especially around things like repeated login attempts (often due to brute force attempts) or detailed post diffs for large posts. Database size is one of the…
James Parsons over at Content Powered wrote a guide on tracking content updates in WordPress, comparing six different approaches — from WordPress’s built-in revisions to full Git-based version control. Simple History made the list: Simple History is probably one of the most accessible and commonly-used history-tracking plugins that doesn’t go deep into a fringe feature…
If you’re building AI-powered tools that read your WordPress activity log — whether it’s a Claude Code skill, a custom GPT, or any LLM-based agent — you’ll want to keep API responses as small as possible. Every extra byte costs tokens, and tokens cost money and context window space. Here are a few tips we…
Premium 1.10.0 makes user cards more informative and fixes compatibility issues on Windows servers. Richer User Cards The user popover card (the one you see when clicking a username in the log) now shows more information about the user: These additions make it easier to get a quick read on any user without leaving the…
OddJar published a detailed comparison of WordPress activity log plugins for 2026. Their final recommendation: If you are unsure which to choose, start with Simple History. Its zero-configuration approach means you can have a working activity log in under a minute. They also note that Simple History “wins on simplicity and value: zero configuration, lighter…
Simple History 5.24.1 is a patch release with a security fix, reduced log noise from capability changes, and a small user card improvement. Changelog Security Changed Fixed Added You can update from the WordPress plugin screen or download it from WordPress.org.
Simple History 5.24.0 brings user card popovers, a redesigned dashboard widget, detailed menu change logging, copy-as-image sharing, and a new Site Health Logger. This is one of the bigger releases in a while — focused on making the activity log faster to scan and faster to load, and more detailed where it matters. User card…
Simple History shows a quick-view dropdown in the WordPress admin bar, letting logged-in users see recent activity without leaving the page. Since the admin bar loads on every frontend page, keeping this bundle small matters. We discovered that a single import — import { HStack } from ‘@wordpress/components’ — was pulling in wp-components (787 KB)…
This is the first plugin release we seen being forcibly updated by WordPress, since we released our update of Simple History that included Detection of forced plugin updates. This time it was WooCommerce that was auto-updated from 10.5.2 to 10.5.3 on one of our websites. And it was a security update that was forced to…
We recently gave Claude Code their own account on this website. Giving an LLM access to your website can sure be scary. But also… very useful! While we do like to create our blog posts manually there are many things that an LLM can do more efficiently than a human. In our case we let…