Features

Simple History records what happens on your WordPress site — logins, content changes, plugin and theme activity, user accounts, settings. These pages go into more detail on the individual pieces.

Seeing what happened

• WordPress audit log — what an audit log is, what belongs in one, how long to keep it, and how to hand it to an auditor or a client.
• User cards — last login, last activity, IP address, browser and event counts for anyone who shows up in the log.
• Post activity panel — the full history of a post, in the editor sidebar, without leaving what you are working on.
• Stats and summaries — the History Insights sidebar next to the log, and the full activity dashboard.
• Admin bar quick view — recent events from the admin bar, on any page of your site.

Being told about it

• Alerts — get a Slack, Discord, Telegram or email message the moment something you care about happens.
• Weekly email report — a Monday summary of the week, with names rather than just counts.
• Log forwarding — send events to syslog, Datadog, Splunk, a webhook, a separate database or a file.

Controlling the log

• Stealth mode — keep Simple History visible only to the people who should see it — useful on client sites.

For developers

• WP-CLI commands — read and manage the log from the command line.
• REST API endpoints — the same data over HTTP, for dashboards and integrations of your own.
• Documentation — hooks, the logging API, and how to write your own loggers.

Free and Premium

The activity log itself is free and always will be — it is on WordPress.org and runs on more than 300,000 sites. Alerts, log forwarding, longer retention, export, and the detailed weekly email come with Simple History Premium.