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Tidy Repo is a great site with a curated list of the best and most functional WordPress plugins. I’ve followed the site for a long time so I’m very happy to see that they now have a review of Simple History. They begin by saing that The Simple History plugin is a fantastic tool that…
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Simple History was recently updated with some bug fixes but also with two new and useful features. Jetpack support Firstly the plugin now has support for the Jetpack plugin from Automattic: modules activated and deactivated in Jetpack will be logged. A very nice feature since Jetpack comes with some big features than can enhance the…
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Simple History 2.23 was recently released. This version adds logging of some of the new privacy and GDPR related functions that was added in WordPress 4.9.6. Simple History can log the following:
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It’s been a while since the last update so this update brings quite a few things. Support for Advanced Custom Fields Most noteable is support for the custom fields plugin Advanced Custom Fields. When creating and editing fields and field groups you will now get a much clearer view of what’s been changed. You can…
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This is an interesting Dutch post where programmer Tim de Hoog discovers that JavaScript to mine bitcoin is inserted into blog posts on a site he manages. It was thanks to the dashboard audit log of simple history that the script was detected. View Original article in Dutch or view translated version.
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Yep. Finally! Here’s how it looks: Also in this version: The preview image of uploaded images now uses the default WordPress image size small, instead of a custom image size. Also these mage previews are now abit smaller because many uploaded images could make the log a bit to long and not so quick to…
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WordPress plugin WP-Optimize is a great plugin that optimizes the database and tables that your WordPress installation uses. The authors explain it as: WP-Optimize is an effective tool for automatically cleaning your WordPress database so that it runs at maximum efficiency. With over 600,000 installs and a 5 star medium rating I can say that…
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Over at the forums on wordpress.org there was a user who asked if it was possible to log whenever a user entered the password on a password protected page. To add this kind of log to Simple History is easy, we just need to hook onto an admin filter and do some checks. The final…
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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…
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Simple History now comes with support for the Duplicate Post plugin. When a user clones a post or a page you will se this in the history log, with links to both the original post and the new copy. It works for both build in pages and post, and with custom post types.