James Parsons over at Content Powered wrote a guide on tracking content updates in WordPress, comparing six different approaches — from WordPress’s built-in revisions to full Git-based version control. Simple History made the list: Simple History is probably one of the most accessible and commonly-used history-tracking plugins that doesn’t go deep into a fringe feature
OddJar published a detailed comparison of WordPress activity log plugins for 2026. Their final recommendation: If you are unsure which to choose, start with Simple History. Its zero-configuration approach means you can have a working activity log in under a minute. They also note that Simple History “wins on simplicity and value: zero configuration, lighter
Simple History shows a quick-view dropdown in the WordPress admin bar, letting logged-in users see recent activity without leaving the page. Since the admin bar loads on every frontend page, keeping this bundle small matters. We discovered that a single import — import { HStack } from ‘@wordpress/components’ — was pulling in wp-components (787 KB)
This is the first plugin release we seen being forcibly updated by WordPress, since we released our update of Simple History that included Detection of forced plugin updates. This time it was WooCommerce that was auto-updated from 10.5.2 to 10.5.3 on one of our websites. And it was a security update that was forced to
We recently gave Claude Code their own account on this website. Giving an LLM access to your website can sure be scary. But also… very useful! While we do like to create our blog posts manually there are many things that an LLM can do more efficiently than a human. In our case we let
We are happy to be able to introduce Alerts in Simple History. Alerts are real-time notifications that tell you when something important happens on your WordPress site, delivered straight to Email, Slack, Discord, or Telegram. Alerts: Know What Happened Before It Becomes a Problem With alerts there is no need to constantly check the log
Simple History 5.23.0 brings better visibility into WordPress security updates, more granular failed login tracking, Notes statistics, and a batch of performance improvements that make the plugin faster on large sites. Detection of forced plugin updates WordPress sometimes pushes forced security updates for plugins — patches so critical they’re applied automatically, whether you opted in
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
A week ago, on a local test website on mine, WooCommerce suddenly got updated. Now this was a bit strange since I do not have auto-update enabled for WooCommerce and I did not perform an update. This is how it looked in the Simple History log. Just like a regular plugin update. I had not
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