More config options to reduce DB size?

I’m going to use this plugin to keep alert me when and what my clients are doing to edit their sites. I’m using the RSS feature to get the alerts, so really only need maybe the last 7 days of activity.

Having an option to change the default of 60 days would be simpler than having to go to the settings page and click the clear log button on each site.

That could potentially be a large help.

The best solution in my view would be to move to a file-based solution, but I know that’s a total rewrite with its own issues, and so not really realistic.

The size of the database table for the plugin will depend on how much activity your site has. So small site, not much activity = smaller db. Large size, lots of activity = larger db usage.

If you want to limit the number of days the log i stored you can change this using a filter. Add this to your functions.php or similar:

// Clear items that are older than a 7 days (i.e. keep only the most recent 7 days in the log)
add_filter('simple_history/db_purge_days_interval', function ($days) {
    $days = 7;
    return $days;
});

This and more examples in the examples.php file:
https://github.com/bonny/WordPress-Simple-History/blob/30728f1561a36ee50820aa266e2d07a3a61c1354/examples/examples.php#L231-L237

Thanks, that’s really useful.

I looked at the github examples, but didn’t see how I can disable logging “Found an update for plugin…” and “Updated plugin…” Since I have auto updates turned on for most of my sites, 95% of the history logs are just notification of these updates. Makes it hard to find the signal buried in the noise.

How can I disable logging all update messages?

If you don’t want any plugin updates you can skip the loading of the plugin logger. Something like this should work:

// Skip loading of plugin logger
add_filter('simple_history/logger/load_logger', function ($load_logger, $oneLoggerFile) {

    if (in_array($oneLoggerFile, array('SimplePluginLogger'))) {
        $load_logger = false;
    }

    return $load_logger;
}, 10, 2);

See more examples in the examples file:
https://github.com/bonny/WordPress-Simple-History/blob/66b8c7f94c8acae7a93d131e223561c29d247a37/examples/examples.php#L168-L177