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
Did you know that according to the WordPress.org plugin guidelines, a plugin is not allowed to track a user without their consent. That’s a good rule that sometimes plugin authors break. Sometimes by accident, sometimes deliberately. So you can understand that this debug message in Simple History with the Debug & Monitor add-on installed caught
In the just released WordPress 6.9 there is a new feature that makes it possible for users to hide blocks. It’s a convenient feature to use when you want to hide a block for a period of time instead of deleting it completely. In this post we’ll show you how you can detect such block
The next version of WordPress (WP 6.9) will extend the already useful Command Palette to be available on all screens – meaning you can quickly navigate to your site history with only your keyboard from any admin page.
The Simple History community has been asking for practical examples of how to extend the plugin’s functionality, particularly around forwarding log entries to external systems. Following community feedback in issue #427, we’ve published a dedicated github.com/bonny/simple-history-examples that demonstrates how to do this. What’s in the Examples Repository The new repository at github.com/bonny/simple-history-examples contains a fully
Tracking user activity in WordPress is essential for security, debugging, and content management. Simple History makes this easy by logging key events, and with the power of the WordPress REST API, you can integrate these logs into almost any workflow. In this guide, we’ll explore how to fetch Simple History logs and display them in
RSS is a XML-based file format used to publish frequently updated information. Wikipedia explains the benefits: RSS feeds benefit users who want to receive timely updates from favorite websites or to aggregate data from many sites. Subscribing to a website RSS removes the need for the user to manually check the website for new content.