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Meta Ledger automatically tracks all post meta changes for posts, custom post types, and WooCommerce products. It stores a versioned history, allows field-level diffs, and provides a restore option. Designed for developers, high-performance, and WordPress standards.
Perfect for tracking product prices, custom fields, metadata changes, and any post meta modifications with complete audit trails.
<h4>Key Features</h4>
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<li>Automatic Tracking: Hooks into WordPress meta functions to automatically track all meta changes</li>
<li>Version History: Complete history of all meta changes with timestamps, user information, and action types</li>
<li>Field-Level Diffs: View side-by-side comparisons of old and new values</li>
<li>Restore Functionality: Restore any meta field to a previous version with one click</li>
<li>Source Tracking: See which file and line triggered each meta change, including changes from Meta Ledger UI</li>
<li>Inline Editing: Edit meta values directly from the admin interface</li>
<li>REST API: Developer-friendly REST API endpoints for programmatic access</li>
<li>WP-CLI Support: Command-line tools for viewing and restoring meta versions</li>
<li>Performance Optimized: Configurable retention policies, batching, and efficient database storage</li>
<li>WooCommerce Compatible: Works seamlessly with WooCommerce products</li>
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Meta Ledger – Track, compare, and restore post meta Changes


I've been developing WooCommerce sites for years and debugging meta field problems was always painful - either var_dump everywhere or digging through the database manually.



What I really like:




Source tracking shows exactly which file/line changed the meta (huge for finding rogue plugins)



Side-by-side diff view makes it easy to spot what changed



One-click restore saved me twice already when a bulk edit went wrong



WP-CLI support is a nice touch for staging/production workflows




Clean code, follows WP standards, lightweight. This should be in every developer's toolkit.


Finally a proper way to debug meta field issues.

Automatically track all post meta changes with versioned history, field-level diffs, and restore functionality.

Ben Balter

This plugin will work, “as is”, out of the box, but assumes some level of CSS and developer customization to adapt to your site’s specific needs.
Styles can be overridden via your theme’s style.css
Functionality can be overridden via your theme’s functions.php
”Examples”
Don’t display metabox on “product” post type:
<pre><code>add_filter( 'display_custom_fields', 'bb_no_product_metabox' ); function bb_no_product_metabox( $true, $post ) { if ( $post->post_type == 'product' ) return false; return true; } </code></pre>
Don’t display the product_id metakey
<pre><code>add_filter( 'dcf_postmeta', 'bb_no_product_id' ); function bb_no_product_id( $postmeta ) { unset( $postmeta['product_id'] ); return $postmeta; } </code></pre>
Don’t display metabox title
<pre><code>add_filter( 'dcf_heading', '__return_false' ); </code></pre>
Display metabox below content (rather than floated to the right)
<pre><code>add_filter( 'dcf_before_content', '__return_false' ); </code></pre>

Display Custom Fields

Inserts a Wikipedia-like metabox into posts with all the post's associated custom fields and taxonomy terms.

Meta Ledger – Track, compare, and restore post meta Changes vs Display Custom Fields