Descrição
Simple Editor Control silently records every file change made through the WordPress built-in plugin editor and theme editor. For each save it stores the diff, the editor who made it, and the timestamp — giving you a full, browsable history.
Features
- Automatic tracking — no setup required. Every save through the WP file editor is captured.
- Git-style diff viewer with side-by-side and line-by-line modes.
- Adjustable context lines (0, 3, 5, 10, 20).
- Point-in-time file recovery — download any file as it existed at any past revision.
- Works with all plugins and all active themes.
- Accurate LCS-based diff engine (same algorithm as GNU diff / git) — handles insertions, deletions and replacements correctly.
- Fully translatable.
Use cases
- See exactly what changed when something broke.
- Verify that no unauthorised changes were made to your plugin or theme files.
- Recover a previous version of a file without restoring a full backup.
Capturas de tela
Instalação
- Upload the plugin to
/wp-content/plugins/simple-editor-control/. - Activate through Plugins Installed Plugins.
- Go to Tools Simple Editor Control to see the audit trail.
- Start editing plugin or theme files through the WP file editor — changes are captured automatically.
Perguntas frequentes
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Does it work with the Gutenberg block editor?
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Simple Editor Control hooks into the WP file editor (plugin-editor.php / theme-editor.php), not the post editor. It is unrelated to Gutenberg.
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Are changes tracked if I edit files via FTP or SSH?
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No. Only changes made through the WordPress admin file editor are tracked.
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Is the full file stored for every revision?
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No. Only the first save stores the full file content (snapshot). Subsequent saves store only the diff, keeping the database footprint small.
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Can I delete the history?
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Yes. Deactivating the plugin preserves your history. To remove it entirely, delete the plugin — an uninstall hook will drop the database table.
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What happens on very large files?
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The LCS diff engine works well on files up to a few thousand lines. For very large files (> ~3,000 lines with low similarity), a fast-path algorithm is used that treats the change as a full replacement.
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Registro de alterações
4.1.0 (11-May-2026)
Fixed: Initial Revision Logic: Added a specific case to handle the first-ever revision using the stored snapshot. This allows the diff to display correctly even when no prior history exists in the database.
4.0.1 (11-May-2026)
- Blunderman Syndrome: Fixed incorrect table name reference (sec_revisions).
4.0.0 “Reborn” (11-May-2026)
- Architectural Shift: Complete migration from file_modifications to the new sec_revisions table. Old data is deprecated in favor of a robust LCS-based diff system.
- Security (Hardened): All AJAX endpoints now strictly require nonce validation + manage_options capability.
- Security (Hardened): File download no longer exposes raw content without authentication.
- Security (Hardened): Bulletproof path traversal prevention on snapshot reads.
- Security (Hardened): Strict $wpdb->prepare() usage and esc_sql() on all table interpolations.
- Fixed: Replaced old diff engine with a high-precision LCS (Longest Common Subsequence) algorithm — accurate insertions and deletions tracking.
- Fixed: File content stored as raw PHP text, not HTML-encoded — no more decode/encode round-trip corruption.
- Fixed: load_plugin_textdomain() deprecated second parameter removed.
- Improved: New two-panel admin UI — sidebar plugin list, timeline, and professional diff viewer.
- Improved: Diff viewer powered by diff2html with real-time syntax highlighting.
- Improved: Context line count and view mode (side-by-side/inline) switchable live without page reload.
- Improved: Revision list grouped by file with download-at-revision button per entry.
- Improved: Performance optimization with wp_cache_get/set on revision list queries.
- Improved: All enqueued scripts/styles pass plugin version for cache busting.
- Removed: Standalone ajax/get_plugin_details.php (replaced by proper wp_ajax_ actions).
- Removed: REST API route (replaced by wp_ajax_ actions with nonce + capability check).
- i18n: All strings translatable; JS strings passed through wp_localize_script().
3.0.1
- Minor fixes.