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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.

jphase

WP Modification History enables a metabox that shows modficiation history by date/time, user, and the values that were modified. The modified values are shown in a diff format so that you can easily see what lines and characters were modified, deleted, added, etc.
Within the settings page, you are able to toggle off/on meta values in the event you don’t want certain things to be tracked when hitting the update button on that post type.
Possible future features:
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<li>Additional settings and display options (AJAX pagination, limit of results per page/metabox, etc.)</li>
<li>Comments and remarks on a particular revision</li>
<li>Email notifications when specific changesets are made</li>
<li>Stats</li>
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WP Modification History

WordPress Modification History adds a metabox that shows modification history on a particular set of post types.

Meta Ledger – Track, compare, and restore post meta Changes vs WP Modification History