Simple History – user activity log, audit tool

Descripción

Simple History muestra los cambios recientes hechos en WordPress, directamente en tu escritorio o en una página aparte.

El plugin funciona como un historial de registro/historial/registro de autoría/versiones de los eventos más importantes que ocurren en WordPress.

It’s a plugin that is good to have on websites where several people are involved in editing the content.

Out of the box Simple History has support for:

  • Posts and pages – see who added, updated or deleted a post or page

  • Attachments – see who added, updated or deleted an attachment

  • Taxonomies (Custom taxonomies, categories, tags) – see who added, updated or deleted an taxonomy

  • Comments – see who edited, approved or removed a comment

  • Widgets – get info when someone adds, updates or removes a widget in a sidebar

  • Plugins – activation and deactivation

  • User profiles – info about added, updated or removed users

  • User logins – see when a user login & logout. Also see when a user fails to login (good way to catch brute-force login attempts).

  • User edits – see when a user is added, updated or removed, and get detailed information about the changes made to the user.

  • Failed user logins – see when someone has tried to log in, but failed. The log will then include ip address of the possible hacker.

  • Menu edits

  • Option screens – view details about changes made in the different settings sections of WordPress. Things like changes to the site title and the permalink structure will be logged.

  • Privacy page – when a privacy page is created or set to a new page.

  • Data Export – see when a privacy data export request is added and when this request is approved by the user, downloaded by an admin, or emailed to the user.

  • User Data Erasure Requests – see when a user privacy data export request is added and when this request is approved by the user and when the user data is removed.

Support for third party plugins

By default Simple History comes with built in support for the following plugins:

  • Jetpack – The Jetpack plugin is a plugin from Automattic (the company behind the WordPress.com service) that lets you supercharge your website by adding a lot of extra functions.
    In Simple History you will see what Jetpack modules that are activated and deactivated.

  • Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) – ACF adds fields to your posts and pages.
    Simple History will log changes made to the field groups and the fields inside field groups. Your will see when both field groups and fields are created and modified.

  • User Switching – The User Switching plugin allows you to quickly swap between user accounts in WordPress at the click of a button.
    Simple History will log each user switch being made.

  • WP Crontrol – The WP Crontrol plugin enables you to view and control what’s happening in the WP-Cron system.
    Simple History will log when cron events are added, edited, deleted, paused, resumed, and manually ran, and when cron schedules are added and deleted.

  • Enable Media Replace – The Enable Media Replace plugin allows you to replace a file in your media library by uploading a new file in its place.
    Simple history will log details about the file being replaced and details about the new file.

  • Limit Login Attempts – The plugin Limit Login Attempts is old
    and has not been updated for 4 years. However it still has +1 million installs, so many users will benefit from
    Simple History logging login attempts, lockouts, and configuration changes made in the plugin Limit Login Attempts.

  • Redirection – The redirection plugin manages url redirections, using a nice GUI. Simple History will log redirects and groups that are created, changed, enabled or disabled and also when the global plugin settings have been modified.

  • Duplicate Post – The plugin Duplicate Post allows users to clone posts of any type. Simple History will log when a clone of a post or page is done.

  • Beaver Builder – The plugin Beaver Build is a page builder for WordPress that adds a flexible drag and drop page builder to the front end of your WordPress website. Simple History will log when a Beaver Builder layout or template is saved or when the settings for the plugins are saved.

Plugin authors can add support for Simple History in their plugins using the logging API. Plugins that have support for Simple History includes:

What users say

300+ five-star reviews speak to the reliability of this plugin.

  • «So far the best and most comprehensive logging plugin»@herrschuessler

  • «The best history plugin I’ve found»Rich Mehta

  • «Custom Logs Are Crazy Awesome!»Ahmad Awais

  • «Amazing activity logging plugin»digidestination

  • «Fantastic plugin I use on all sites»Duncan Michael-MacGregor

  • «Useful Quick View of Activity»Dan O

  • «The best Activity Plugin»Rahim

  • «The best free history plugin ever»abazeed

  • «It is a standard plugin for all of our sites»Mr Tibbs

RSS feed with changes

Using the optional password protected RSS feed you can keep track of the changes made on your website using your favorite RSS reader.

Comes with WP-CLI commands

For those of you who like to work with the command line there are also some WP-CLI commands available.

  • wp simple-history list – List the latest logged events.

Example scenarios

Keep track of what other people are doing:
«Has someone done anything today? Ah, Sarah uploaded
the new press release and created an article for it. Great! Now I don’t have to do that.»

Or for debug purposes:
«The site feels slow since yesterday. Has anyone done anything special? … Ah, Steven activated ‘naughty-plugin-x’,
that must be it.»

API so you can add your own events to the audit log

If you are a theme or plugin developer and would like to add your own things/events to Simple History you can do that by using the function SimpleLogger() like this:

`

info(«This is a message sent to the log»);

// A bit more advanced: log events with different severities
SimpleLogger()->info(«User admin edited page ‘About our company'»);
SimpleLogger()->warning(«User ‘Jessie’ deleted user ‘Kim'»);
SimpleLogger()->debug(«Ok, cron job is running!»);
}
?>
`

See the documentation for examples on how to log your own events and how to query the log, and more.

Add-ons available

WooCommerce Logger: Enhance your site’s tracking with comprehensive logs for WooCommerce orders, products, settings, and coupons. Read more.

Extended Settings: Extend the settings of Simple History with more options and settings. Read more.

Contribute at GitHub

Development of this plugin takes place at GitHub. Please join in with feature requests, bug reports, or even pull requests!
https://github.com/bonny/WordPress-Simple-History

Sponsor this project

If you like this plugin please consider donating to support the development.

You can donate using PayPal or you can become a GitHub sponsor.

There is also some add-ons that you can buy to support the development of this plugin and get some extra features.

Capturas

  • The log view + it also shows the filter function in use - the log only shows event that are of type post and pages and media (i.e. images & other uploads), and only events initiated by a specific user.

  • The Post Quick Diff feature will make it quick and easy for a user of a site to see what updates other users have done to posts and pages.

  • When users are created or changed you can see details on what have changed.

  • Events have context with extra details - Each logged event can include useful rich formatted extra information. For example: a plugin install can contain author info and a the url to the plugin, and an uploaded image can contain a thumbnail of the image.

  • Click on the IP address of an entry to view the location of for example a failed login attempt.

  • See even more details about a logged event (by clicking on the date and time of the event).

  • A chart with some quick statistics is available, so you can see the number of events that has been logged each day. A simple way to see any uncommon activity, for example an increased number of logins or similar.

FAQ

Can I add my own events to the log?

Yes. See the Developer Documentation.

¿Es posible excluir usuarios del registro?

Yes, you exclude users by role or email using the filter simple_history/log/do_log.

See the hooks documentation for more info.

For how long are events stored?

Los eventos en el registro se almacenan durante 60 días por defecto. Los eventos anteriores a este serán eliminados.

This can be modified using the filter simple_history/db_purge_days_interval or using the Simple History Extended Settings add-on.

Reseñas

7 de enero de 2024 3 respuestas
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
24 de diciembre de 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!
28 de noviembre de 2023
Great plugin! Clean and simpler (not simple)!
21 de noviembre de 2023
This is simply a great plugin. Plug the RSS feed into a RSS reader, and you can monitor multiple sites for activity in one place. Great work!!
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Registro de cambios

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.

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.