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…
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:…
Simple History 5.27.0 makes it visible when an action on your site was triggered through an AI tool, moves frequently used links into a dedicated action bar on every event row, and adds a “Copy as JSON” option for scripting and debugging. Two new experimental features come along for the ride: a “History” column on…
Simple History 5.26.0 makes event log actions more discoverable and introduces event reactions as an experimental feature. Actions are now inline buttons Export and Create Log Entry used to live behind a dropdown menu in the control bar. In 5.26.0 they’re inline buttons instead — one click away and clearly visible. This is good news…
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…