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WP Modification History

By Jeff Hays (jphase)

Description

WP Modification History enables a metabox that shows modficiation history by date/time, user, and the values that were modified. The modified values are shown in a diff format so that you can easily see what lines and characters were modified, deleted, added, etc.

Within the settings page, you are able to toggle off/on meta values in the event you don’t want certain things to be tracked when hitting the update button on that post type.

Possible future features:

  • Additional settings and display options (AJAX pagination, limit of results per page/metabox, etc.)
  • Comments and remarks on a particular revision
  • Email notifications when specific changesets are made
  • Stats

Screenshots

  • The metabox that displays modification history in a diff format

Installation

  1. Drop unzipped folder into wp-content/plugins/wp-mod-history and activate the plugin via the plugins admin page.

  2. Alternatively, just install the plugin from the plugins admin page by searching for “WP Modification History”

FAQ

Where do I see the modification history?

By default, modification history will be tracked on posts of post_type “post” whenever a change has been made. This means you’ll need to change something (the title, the content, or some custom post meta) and click Update. Once a change has been made, you should see a metabox appear towards the bottom of the edit post screen that will outline the changes that were made.

Why was this written?

This was written initially as a work project to show editorial staff who changed what and when they changed it. This was later modularized and developed into a stand alone plugin for your convenience.

Reviews

ERRORS: 450 GetUser, “Updating Failed, “Publishing Failed”…

Gatonnya 30, 2019
Ok... I give it three stars because it worked for a while. Once WP updated to v5 it started giving errors when trying to create New Page(s)... When trying to do ANYTHING with modification or manipulation of the page it would just start kicking out errors and look like it was saving and publishing. Didn't work. Found that this plug-in was not only incompatible with v5 with the troubleshooting that was done, but... had to be disabled in order to get a New Page saved within WordPress theme. Now that's just weird. So... long story short... no changed to this app in 3 years, incompatible with Wordpress v5 and above, will take you forever to find the problem for the errors above if you are using this plug-in. Good day...
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  • Added core functionality and metabox to display modification history.

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