What does Simple History do?

Simple History shows recent changes made within WordPress, directly on your dashboard or on a separate page. The plugin works as a log/history/audit log/version history of the most important events that occur in WordPress.

What events does Simple History support?

Out of the box, Simple History has support for posts and pages, attachments, taxonomies, comments, widgets, plugins, user profiles, user logins, failed user logins, menu edits, option screens, privacy page, data export, and user data erasure requests.

Does Simple History support third-party plugins?

Yes, Simple History comes with built-in support for plugins like Jetpack, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), User Switching, WP Crontrol, Enable Media Replace, Limit Login Attempts, Redirection, Duplicate Post, and Beaver Builder.

What do users say about Simple History?

Users have given Simple History 300+ five-star reviews, praising it for being the best and most comprehensive logging plugin, and for its usefulness in tracking website activity.

Are there any API functions in Simple History?

Yes, Simple History provides an API function called SimpleLogger() that allows theme and plugin developers to add their own events to the audit log.

Simple History - User Activity Log & Audit Tool

Features Download’s trend Changelog Reviews

Simplify WordPress tracking

Easily monitor changes made to your website with Simple History plugin.

Enhance collaboration

Keep track of content edits and user activities on your website.

Comprehensive logging

Get detailed information about posts, pages, attachments, comments, and more.

Extend functionality

Support for popular plugins like Jetpack, Advanced Custom Fields, User Switching, and more.

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4.14.0 (April 2024)

🕵️‍♀️ This version introduces a new Detective Mode. Many users use Simple History to catch changes made by users and plugins, but sometimes it can be hard to tell exactly what plugin that was responsible for a specific action. Detective Mode has been crated to help users find the responsible plugin, hook, URL, or function used to trigger a specific action. View screenshots and more information.

Add Detective Mode, a new feature aimed to help users find what plugin or theme is causing a specific event or action to be logged or happen. Great for debugging. This new feature can be enabled in the settings. Read more. Useful for admins, developers, forensics detectives, security experts, and more.
Add support for searching for localized logger message strings. #277
Add fix for SQL MAX_JOIN_SIZE related error message, that could happen on low end hosting providers or shared hosting providers. #435
Remove check for older PHP versions in helpers::json_encode. (PHP 7.4 is since long the minimum requirement for Simple History and for WordPress itself.)
Tested on WordPress 6.5.

4.13.0 (March 2024)

🚀 Introducing the WooCommerce Logger Add-On: Enhance your site’s tracking with comprehensive logs for WooCommerce orders, products, settings, and coupons. Learn more in our release post.

Add support for logging when adding or removing user roles via WP-CLI. WP-CLI 2.10.0 added “Support for adding and removing of multiple user roles” and now Simple History supports logging of these events. #431.
Show a message for users with WooCommerce installed and activated, informing them about the new WooCommerce Logger Add-On.

View the release post to see screenshots of the new features.

4.12.0 (Februari 2024)

Added

Theme activation/switch done via WP CLI (e.g. wp theme activate twentytwentyone) is now logged.

Fixed

Message type search/filter not working. #428
PHP notice when user has no roles. #429.

Changelog for previous versions.

excelente, hace lo que deseo

By maikelj1978 on April 12, 2024

me muestra todo, incluso, el IP real (paso pro cloudflare) del usuario que se logueo, ademas muestra si se modifica , incluso el menu, que era un problema q tenia, doy 5 estrellas.

solo un pequeño detalle, quisiera que cuanto tenga un wordpress multisite, aparezcan los logs de todos los sitios en la seccion network.

Epic, and to the point

By martisja on March 22, 2024

I love plugins that do what they say and do it well. Thank you!

Very useful

By jlmwp on March 20, 2024

five stars for you!

new update

By lukas22 on January 7, 2024

Hi,
about 3 months ago, I was able to see the traffic of a specific page in this plugin, and now I don't know. The user interface was completely changed. I also set to see as many records as possible, and now that I have logged into the site, I can see that only the last 2 months are being recorded. I have automatic plugin updates enabled in the background due to security updates.

Lukas

Wish I would have found this plugin earlier

By kenthompson9 on January 7, 2024

This should be installed on every site where multiple users are adding and editing content.

Easy to use and surprisingly lightweight

By Eric Adams (adamsts) on December 24, 2023

i have been using this plugin on numerous sites for several years now and have never had any issues. I have used similar things on the past and have had performance problems. It captures the most important events and let's me see who has made changes and to what. This is very helpful information when troubleshooting problems caused by other users. The logging tends to be just complete enough to provide a solid picture of what's happening. Thank you to the developers for providing such an excellent tool!

Standard WordPress Toolbox item for monitoring site activity.

By Chris (munch40) on December 13, 2023

In the last 12 months, we've found this to be one of our 'go-to' tools for discovering issues with user activities. It's part of our business' toolkit for managing WordPress sites.

Thanks for a great plugin.