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WP CLI command added and file edits now logged

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WP CLI command to view user activity is now added to Simple History. The current support is pretty basic, but it’s a nice addition anyway I must say.

A simple wp simple-history list command will give you a listing of the latest events. You can also pass arguments count=20 to show 20 events instead of the default 10. And pass argument format=json to output the list in JSON format instead of the ASCII table.

Also in this version: theme file edits are logged, with a “quick diff” showing what’s been changed.

Support for Redirection plugin added

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With over 600.000 active installs the Redirection plugin is a pretty popular WordPress plugin. So when there was a request for supporting it I agreed it would be a good idea to add support for it.

So in the latest version of Simple History there is now support for the plugin Redirection. The following things are logged:

  • Redirects created, changed, enabled or disabled
  • Groups that are created, changed, enabled or disabled
  • Global plugin settings

Here’s a screenshot of how it looks in action:

simple-history-redirection-plugin

Available updates to WordPress, plugins and themes now logged

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With the latest update of Simple History the log will show the available updates to plugins, themes and WordPress core that are found.

This is a great feature to have if you for example subscribe to the history RSS feed. You no longer need to manually check the updates-page to see if there are any updates.

Here you can see how it looks when an update to WordPress is found and then the update is installed. It’s all there in the history log:

available-updates

And here’s how it can look in your RSS-reader when you get notified that WordPress has auto-updated:

updated-logged-in-rss-feed

Brute force attacks can make the log big – here’s why and how to stop it

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In the support forum for Simple History some people have raised issues about the Simple History database tables are growing large. (For example this thread and this thread.

The reason for this is that Simple History is really good at logging things. So if your WordPress blog is getting a really big amount of brute force attacks, all those failed login attempts will be logged in Simple History. Nothing wrong with that, that’s the purpose of the plugin. But the number of rows can be huge – like over a million for some sites. And that can be an issue for some low cost hosts where you have a limited amount of storage/disk space.

Here’s what Simple History is doing to keep the database small – and a solution to keep the number of login attempts down to a minimum:

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