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Simple History 5.18.0

Does Simple History work with WordPress 6.8.3 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-11-04 12:55:21 UTC.

Summary

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Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Simple History

Simple History → History Insights

Simple History → Export

Simple History → Settings

Simple History → Help & Support

Simple History → Get Premium

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.313 s	0.701 s	+0.388 s	3.51 MiB	4.13 MiB	+ 636.01 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.202 s	0.351 s	+0.149 s	3.57 MiB	4.2 MiB	+ 644.56 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.820 s	0.874 s	+0.054 s	6.06 MiB	6.99 MiB	+ 951.59 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.839 s	0.585 s	-0.254 s	3.52 MiB	4.11 MiB	+ 602.86 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.336 s	0.314 s	-0.022 s	3.5 MiB	4.09 MiB	+ 603.01 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.281 s	0.344 s	+0.063 s	3.49 MiB	4.09 MiB	+ 611.2 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.190 s	0.280 s	+0.090 s	3.5 MiB	4.11 MiB	+ 616.47 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.741 s	0.640 s	-0.101 s	6.05 MiB	6.97 MiB	+ 947.03 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.459 s	0.437 s	-0.022 s	3.5 MiB	4.09 MiB	+ 600.13 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.246 s	0.294 s	+0.048 s	3.52 MiB	4.11 MiB	+ 599.16 KiB
/	0.307 s	0.288 s	-0.019 s	3.5 MiB	3.94 MiB	+ 456.03 KiB
Average	0.430 s	0.464 s	+0.034 s	3.98 MiB	4.62 MiB	+ 660.73 KiB

Code Statistics

Note: Third-party libraries and minified JS/CSS files are excluded from these statistics where possible, so the numbers you see here may be lower than those reported by other tools.

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	84.6%	24,045	12,629	133
	CSS	9.8%	2,799	252	9
	Markdown	4.3%	1,233	0	2
	JavaScript	0.9%	249	27	5
	SVG	0.2%	67	0	55
	Bourne Shell	0.2%	45	17	1
Total			28,438	12,925	205

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Additions

Things that the plugin adds to the site. This section is not intended to be comprehensive. The test tool only looks for a few specific types of added content.

Database Tables 2

• wp_simple_history
• wp_simple_history_contexts

Options wp_options 11

• simple_history_db_version
• simple_history_detective_mode_enabled
• simple_history_enable_rss_feed
• simple_history_experimental_features_enabled
• simple_history_install_date_gmt
• simple_history_menu_page_location
• simple_history_rss_secret
• simple_history_show_as_page
• simple_history_show_in_admin_bar
• simple_history_show_on_dashboard
• simple_history_total_logged_events_count

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "simple_history_dashboard_widget": {
            "title": "Simple History",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

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