[Plugin: Audit Trail] CAUTION!

  • Resolved uxdesign

    (@uxdesign)


    13 years, 10 months ago

    Audit Trail is a very dangerous plug in because EVERY time ANYONE saves ANY EDIT, Audit Trail inserts a new record in your database to copy the entire post. So, for example, if you have a single page or post that has been simply saved 20 times (including auto saves), you will have 21 full copies of the post in your db for that single page or post! Therefore those using Audit Trail will adversely affect db/WP performance. Except, perhaps, for those very very low activity WP sites. The “exclude users” feature does NOT work (values submitted are not saved in db for some reason). And there is NO db cleanup if you deactivate or remove the plugin; you will have to do it all MANUALLY via phpMyAdmin or other db admin method. It sort of works but I suggest great _CAUTION_ and absolute certainty that Audit Trail is necessary for your site (rogue users?), BEFORE install/activation.

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  • Thread Starter uxdesign

    (@uxdesign)

    Follow up: having “manually” cleaned up the database and removed all plugin files, I find it continues to “log” (clone entire posts) every saved edit! BIZARRE!!
    Did I mention the need for extreme caution when using this plugin?? Yes, EXTREME….

    Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    To follow up here, none of the above was true – uxdesign was in fact referring to WordPress post revisions.

    Thread Starter uxdesign

    (@uxdesign)

    True, that. Also true: the exclude user feature does not work (isn’t stored), for myself and others who’ve posted same. If I could still edit my first entry above that is what it would now say.

    And based on Audit Trail’s own plug-in description, perhaps it is clear why I thought it, and not WP itself, is entering the records: “Audit Trail is a plugin to keep track of what is going on inside your blog. It does this by recording certain actions (such as who logged in and when) and storing this information in the form of a log. Not only that but it records the full contents of posts (and pages) and allows you to restore a post to a previous version at any time.” Which is what WP Post Rev’s feature does. More accurate would be to describe Audit Trail as adding a diff/comparison and edit high-lighting (also useful) feature to WP’s own Post Revisions feature? I’d say so, yes.

    Forgive me for taking the description literally, and not knowing about wP>2.6 Post Rev’s feature before hand, please.

    the exclude user feature does not work (isn’t stored), for myself and others who’ve posted same.

    This feature seems to work for me. I exclude Admin from my activity log. Admin’s user ID is “1”.

    I entered a “1” followed by a comma ( 1, ) in the exclusion field and it seems to save just fine. It also seems to be excluding the Admin activity as anticipated… So, just in my own personal experience, it seems to be working okay.

    Thread Starter uxdesign

    (@uxdesign)

    Great tip! Will give it a try. Thanks.

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