WordPress 5 Cookbook

How it works...

This plugin supports many of the WordPress core features for logging changes to your site and tracking them through a simple interface. The plugin creates two custom database tables called wp_simple_history and wp_simple_history_contexts. Let's take a look at the functionality of these two tables:

• wp_simple_history: This table contains two columns for storing the date and message for the action/change on the site. Apart from that, it also contains three other columns for storing plugin-specific logging level, occasion ID, and logger name. There are eight different levels for identifying the importance and nature of the change. These levels include Debug, Info, Notice, Warning, Error, Critical, Alert, and Emergency. The logger ...