Feature request: add options for log retention

I also think this would be useful. Or a way to specify which history items are logged and kept.

I just saw this – Clear log
Items in the database are automatically removed after 60 days.

Yes, what I propose is that those 60 days won’t come hardcoded. They should be an option in a dropbox and by default come set to 60 days just for backward compatibility. But I currently am needing up to 6 months of retention for some projects where a lot of developers and editors are involved and you may need to track down what any of them have been doing all this time ??

I just set up an appointment to download the log monthly and will also subscribe via RSS. I would not want 6 months of log on my site, but this gives me a way to archive the history. Auto download to dropbox would be a cool paid feature.

Have you seen this request?

I think combining the two requests would be extremely useful.
As I mention on my example, one could place an auto delete date far into the future (six months or even a year or even disable it altogether), filter the events and delete the redundant ones.
This way you keep a slim db and at the same time can always refer to those nasty IPs that attacked the login page last year. Or even send a copy of the record to your client who is claiming he was not the one who made the changes to “the post” 3 months ago but it was your own technical fault.

Yes, it could be interesting to combine both requests.

I’d also like this feature please. It’s not ideal editing the plugin code which gets over-written each time the plugin is updated. This is far from ideal, it’s terrible, and can so easily be fixed if the plugin author allows it.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by Dan.