There is now a new plugin that extends Simple History with new features and loggers.
It’s called Developer Loggers for Simple History.
At the moment the developer plugin adds:
There is now a new plugin that extends Simple History with new features and loggers.
It’s called Developer Loggers for Simple History.
At the moment the developer plugin adds:
Now this plugin has 100 5-star reviews.
Simple History for WordPress:
now with 100 reviews with rating ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️!https://t.co/mlDfe0WhMy pic.twitter.com/wXF5scQ5lr— Pär Thernström 🇺🇦 (@eskapism) February 9, 2016
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:
With version 2.5 or Simple History the creation, modification, and deletion of taxonomies are now logged. This includes terms, categories and post tags.
For a long time the stats-section of this plugins page over at wordpress.org have felt like it was “stuck”. Always showing “20.000 active installs”…
Today however, it did finally update – to 30.000 active installs!
Version 2.4 of Simple History brings a wanted addition to the event log: when hovering the time of an event the tooltip now displays both the local time and the GMT time of the event. This change makes it easier for admins in different timezones that work together on a site to understand when each event happened.
The update also brings two new logged things:
Many WordPress sites gets lots and lots of login attempts from hackers. You may not even be aware of this – until you install a plugin like Simple History that logs security related events like logins and login attempts. Suddenly your log is full of failed login attempts. Just during a day you can get thousands of them.
Here’s a real example from one of the sites I maintain:
Ouch! 3363 failed login attempts since the last time I logged into that site. That’s not good. By why worry about this? Let me explain.
Good news everyone!
Simple History now has basic support for logging events from some third party WordPress plugins. First out is the User Switching plugin and the Enable Media Replace plugin.
Yesterday the WordPress team announced that WordPress version 4.3 was available. It’s a great update and personally I mostly look forward to start using Formatting Shortcuts and Site Icons.
Oh, and Simple History should work just fine with this new version.