Justin Nealey

First Draft Feed is a WordPress block that renders a single post’s revision history as a readable, chronological feed. Each revision is a “moment” — timestamped, with a visual diff showing what changed. Readers follow the evolution of thinking, not just the finished product.
Who is this for?
<ul>
<li>Writers who work in public and want to expose how their thinking evolved.</li>
<li>Readers who want to follow a post’s development over time like a story.</li>
<li>Site owners who want to control which posts expose their drafts and how much history is visible.</li>
</ul>
How it works
Drop the First Draft Feed block onto any post or page. It renders a feed of that post’s revision history, pulled from a custom REST API endpoint that safely surfaces WordPress revision data without requiring authentication.
Each revision card shows:
<ul>
<li>Timestamp — when the revision was saved</li>
<li>Word count delta — e.g. “+ 312 words”</li>
<li>Visual diff — additions and removals highlighted in context, rendered as clean text (no raw HTML diffs)</li>
</ul>
The feed loads oldest-to-newest so readers experience the post as it was written.
Features
<ul>
<li>Per-post opt-in — revisions are only exposed when the author explicitly enables the feed</li>
<li>Author notes — optional context shown at the top of the feed</li>
<li>Three diff styles — inline, split, or summary view</li>
<li>Image tracking — images in revisions are preserved and diffed alongside text</li>
<li>Collapsible cards — readers expand only what interests them</li>
<li>Max revision limit — cap how many revisions appear (1-50)</li>
<li>Toggle individual elements — show or hide diffs, word counts, and timestamps</li>
<li>Block supports — wide/full alignment, background/text color, spacing, and font size</li>
</ul>
<h3>Source Code</h3>
The full source code is available on GitHub:
https://github.com/jnealey88/first-draft-feed

First Draft Feed

Show a post's revision history as a readable, chronological feed.

Thomas Lloancy

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
<ul>
<li>Automatic tracking — no setup required. Every save through the WP file editor is captured.</li>
<li>Git-style diff viewer with side-by-side and line-by-line modes.</li>
<li>Adjustable context lines (0, 3, 5, 10, 20).</li>
<li>Point-in-time file recovery — download any file as it existed at any past revision.</li>
<li>Works with all plugins and all active themes.</li>
<li>Accurate LCS-based diff engine (same algorithm as GNU diff / git) — handles insertions, deletions and replacements correctly.</li>
<li>Fully translatable.</li>
</ul>
Use cases
<ul>
<li>See exactly what changed when something broke.</li>
<li>Verify that no unauthorised changes were made to your plugin or theme files.</li>
<li>Recover a previous version of a file without restoring a full backup.</li>
</ul>

Simple Editor Control


Wordpress editor is very handy, and you can see the difference made when a plugin or theme was edited using that tool. It's my plugin and i like it


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Audit trail and git-style diff viewer for every file change made through the WordPress plugin and theme file editor.

First Draft Feed vs Simple Editor Control