Premium 1.11.0 adds post-specific filtering in the admin bar, new alert conditions, and richer email reports. “This page” filter in the admin bar The admin bar Quick View now has a “This page” filter that shows only events related to the post or page you’re currently viewing. If you’ve ever wanted to quickly check who
Simple History 5.25.0 makes your activity log database smaller and your searches faster. Even on a typical site, activity logs can quietly accumulate more data than you need — especially around things like repeated login attempts (often due to brute force attempts) or detailed post diffs for large posts. Database size is one of the
Premium 1.10.0 makes user cards more informative and fixes compatibility issues on Windows servers. Richer User Cards The user popover card (the one you see when clicking a username in the log) now shows more information about the user: These additions make it easier to get a quick read on any user without leaving the
Simple History 5.24.1 is a patch release with a security fix, reduced log noise from capability changes, and a small user card improvement. Changelog Security Changed Fixed Added You can update from the WordPress plugin screen or download it from WordPress.org.
Simple History 5.24.0 brings user card popovers, a redesigned dashboard widget, detailed menu change logging, copy-as-image sharing, and a new Site Health Logger. This is one of the bigger releases in a while — focused on making the activity log faster to scan and faster to load, and more detailed where it matters. User card
Simple History 5.23.1 is a bug fix release that addresses crashes that could occur during plugin updates. When updating from versions 5.21–5.23, some users experienced a fatal “Class not found” error. This happened because some PHP classes were moved between versions, and the old class names were still referenced during the update process. This release
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
A small release, quickly released to hopefully fix the File_Channel not found errors that some users had. See the release post for 5.21.0 for more fun stuff, like Surrounding Events and support for logging to files, syslog, and external databases. Full changelog Added Fixed
Today we’re excited to announce that Simple History Premium 1.8.0 adds support for forwarding events to local syslog and remote syslog server and also to an external MySQL/MariaDB database. Whether you’re managing a single high-traffic site or overseeing dozens of WordPress installations across your organization, this release gives you the tools to centralize your logs,