Here is a little sneak peek of a new premium feature that we are working on: Alerts! The alerts feature will let you forward events to popular destinations like Email, Telegram, Slack and Discord. So first, what do we mean by “Alerts”? In Simple History alerts are selective, rule-based notifications that are triggered when specific…
Did you know that according to the WordPress.org plugin guidelines, a plugin is not allowed to track a user without their consent. That’s a good rule that sometimes plugin authors break. Sometimes by accident, sometimes deliberately. So you can understand that this debug message in Simple History with the Debug & Monitor add-on installed caught…
A small release, quickly released to hopefully fix the File_Channel not found errors that some users had. See the release post for 5.21.0 for more fun stuff, like Surrounding Events and support for logging to files, syslog, and external databases. Full changelog Added Fixed
Today we’re excited to announce that Simple History Premium 1.8.0 adds support for forwarding events to local syslog and remote syslog server and also to an external MySQL/MariaDB database. Whether you’re managing a single high-traffic site or overseeing dozens of WordPress installations across your organization, this release gives you the tools to centralize your logs,…
Your WordPress activity logs are about to get a whole lot more useful. I’ve had the same requests from users for a while now. Just last week I was in a video conference with a client who wanted to send their logs to GrayLog. So I’m excited to share what I’ve been working on for…
In the just released WordPress 6.9 there is a new feature that makes it possible for users to hide blocks. It’s a convenient feature to use when you want to hide a block for a period of time instead of deleting it completely. In this post we’ll show you how you can detect such block…
WordPress 6.9, codename Gene, has just been released. This release contains some really nice and useful features. The major two ones are notes and command palette everywhere: Block Notes First out is a new feature that makes collaboration using WordPress even better: Notes! With notes users can add notes to blocks. It can be comments…
This release contains a fix for the new Notes logger and it fixes and old problem with emoji chars. Other than this is pretty much the same a the recent version 5.19.0. Full changelog Changed Fixed
With Simple History 5.19.0 the core plugin added support for Backfilling Events on install. What? Backfilling? What is that, you may ask. Backfilling is a fancy term for “importing old events”. ‘Backfilling in data’ or data backfilling refers to the process of loading in missing data into a new dataset/system. — https://stackoverflow.com/a/78521982 We are happy…
Simple History’s backfill feature imports your existing WordPress posts, pages, and users into the activity log with their original dates. No more empty logs on established sites.