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Simple History 5.20.0

Does Simple History work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-12-02 21:59:08 UTC.

Summary

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Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Simple History

Simple History → History Insights

Simple History → Export & Tools

Simple History → Settings

Simple History → Help & Support

Simple History → Get Premium

Test site – Just another WordPress site

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Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.523 s	0.529 s	+0.006 s	3.78 MiB	4.43 MiB	+ 672.84 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.381 s	0.504 s	+0.123 s	3.78 MiB	4.47 MiB	+ 705.84 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.825 s	0.901 s	+0.076 s	6.31 MiB	7.3 MiB	+ 1014.38 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.475 s	0.426 s	-0.049 s	3.74 MiB	4.37 MiB	+ 643.04 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.355 s	0.329 s	-0.026 s	3.71 MiB	4.34 MiB	+ 647.75 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.539 s	0.550 s	+0.011 s	3.7 MiB	4.34 MiB	+ 655.95 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.339 s	0.348 s	+0.009 s	3.72 MiB	4.36 MiB	+ 660.9 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.711 s	0.704 s	-0.007 s	6.3 MiB	7.28 MiB	+ 1007.42 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.452 s	0.352 s	-0.100 s	3.71 MiB	4.34 MiB	+ 643.94 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.340 s	0.351 s	+0.011 s	3.73 MiB	4.36 MiB	+ 643.84 KiB
/	0.451 s	0.329 s	-0.122 s	4.12 MiB	4.66 MiB	+ 559.27 KiB
Average	0.490 s	0.484 s	-0.006 s	4.24 MiB	4.93 MiB	+ 714.11 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	81.9%	25,891	13,809	141
	CSS	10.8%	3,412	304	9
	Markdown	5.6%	1,766	0	3
	JavaScript	1.3%	423	84	7
	SVG	0.3%	92	0	63
	Bourne Shell	0.1%	45	17	1
Total			31,629	14,214	224

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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 4 lines

[02-Dec-2025 21:59:38 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 21:59:38 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 21:59:48 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 21:59:48 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131

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