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Simple History 5.16.0

Does Simple History work with WordPress 6.8.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-09-02 15:07:34 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	0.321 s	0.710 s	+0.389 s	3.51 MiB	4.19 MiB	+ 700.13 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.215 s	0.428 s	+0.213 s	3.57 MiB	4.26 MiB	+ 709.05 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.851 s	1.029 s	+0.178 s	6.06 MiB	7.05 MiB	+ 1013.52 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.810 s	0.622 s	-0.188 s	3.52 MiB	4.17 MiB	+ 666.98 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.249 s	0.361 s	+0.112 s	3.5 MiB	4.15 MiB	+ 667.13 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.290 s	0.386 s	+0.096 s	3.49 MiB	4.15 MiB	+ 675.33 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.193 s	0.338 s	+0.145 s	3.5 MiB	4.17 MiB	+ 680.59 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.789 s	0.661 s	-0.128 s	6.05 MiB	7.04 MiB	+ 1008.95 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.451 s	0.610 s	+0.159 s	3.5 MiB	4.15 MiB	+ 664.26 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.274 s	0.370 s	+0.096 s	3.52 MiB	4.17 MiB	+ 663.29 KiB
/	0.332 s	0.358 s	+0.026 s	3.5 MiB	4.01 MiB	+ 525.22 KiB
Average	0.434 s	0.534 s	+0.100 s	3.98 MiB	4.68 MiB	+ 724.95 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	83.6%	22,723	11,940	131
	CSS	10.1%	2,755	251	9
	Markdown	5.1%	1,396	0	3
	JavaScript	0.9%	249	27	5
	SVG	0.2%	66	0	54
Total			27,189	12,218	202

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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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