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As you may know we recently took over or rather took back the plugin CMS Tree Page View. And as promised we even more recently released an update of it with modern code and a better GUI and added Simple History support. With a rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars from 354 reviews we think…
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Simple History Premium 1.14.0 Released — Settings Logging, Richer Forwarded Events, and 22 Languages
Premium 1.14.0 logs changes to Premium’s own settings, adds the user behind each event to Datadog and Splunk payloads, and finally ships the plugin’s translations — 22 languages that were missing from the download until now. Datadog and Splunk now see who did it The biggest fix/change in this release is more fields to Datadog…
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Two features that have been sitting behind the experimental flag are now on for everyone: reactions, and a header status bar that tells you what your log settings actually are. Simple History also started logging changes to its own settings — which, yes, it probably should have been doing all along. Plus a round of…
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As mentioned in our previous post, we have taken over (or actually back) the plugin CMS Tree Page View, a plugin that gives you a quick glance of our your pages, in a beautiful and easy to navigate tree. Click on a page to view it’s history (when Simple History is installed) and to quickly…
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Back in 2010, I built CMS Tree Page View – a plugin that shows your pages as a tree in wp-admin instead of a flat list. You can see the whole structure of your site at a glance, and drag and drop to reorder pages or nest them as children of others. Still one of…
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We want Simple History to be fast. Simple History is an activity log (audit log) plugin for WordPress — it records what users and plugins do on a site. It runs on over 300,000 websites, and a logging plugin that slows down 300,000 websites would be a pretty bad logging plugin. So we treat performance…
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Premium 1.13.0 makes the user and initiator cards in the activity log show a lot more at a glance — last login, last event, IP address, browser, and event counts — plus one-click links to filter the log down to a single user or source. Richer user and initiator cards Open the popover card for…
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Your activity log is now part of WordPress’s personal-data export — so when someone asks for their data, the answer is finally complete. Plus a batch of navigation shortcuts and a few small fixes. When someone asks for their data, the log is finally part of the answer If you’ve ever handled a GDPR data…
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For 13 years we had the same screenshots on our wordpress.org plugin page. The first thing a potential user sees. And it was 13 years old! Also: low resolution. Ouch. But how come it took so long for us to update them? Well, because we are lazy. And updating them was time consuming and boring:…
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Ready for WordPress 7.0 — with logging for the new AI Connectors Screen, plus WP-CLI, REST API, and AI agent actions in the activity log. WP-CLI and REST API changes now show up in the log This one has bothered us for a while. Several of Simple History’s loggers were tightly coupled to wp-admin, so…
