Watchman
Watchman is a WordPress plugin which keeps track of revisions for your posts, pages and custom post types as well.
Maintenance 22/1003665d since update
Active installs
10
Downloads
1,733
Reviews
1
Age
11.1y
Tagspostpostspagerevisionsrevision
Plugin info
Total downloads: 1,733
Active installs: 10
Total reviews: 1
Average rating: 5
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 2
Last updated: 12/19/2015 (3665 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 12/11/2014 (11 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 3.6
Tested up to WordPress version: 4.4.34
Minimum PHP version: f
Maintenance & Compatibility
Maintenance score
Possibly abandoned • Last updated 3665 days ago • 1 reviews
22/100
Is Watchman abandoned?
Possibly abandoned (last update 3665 days ago).
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 3.6
Tested up to: 4.4.34
Requires PHP: f
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Description
Following are some of the trivial features:
- Tracks Post Title & Post Content – inherits from WordPress Core
- Controls number of revisions for all post types
- Tracks Post Author
- Tracks Post Date
- Tracks Featured Image
- Tracks Comments for a Post
- Tracks Metadata
- Tracks Terms from Taxonomy
NOTE: Development in progress
Important Links ( Future Links – doesn’t exist right now )
- Project Homepage
- Roadmap
- Documentation
- FAQ
- GitHub – Please mention your wordpress.org username when sending pull requests.
Installation
- Install the plugin from the ‘Plugins’ section in your dashboard (Go to
Plugins > Add New > Searchand search for Watchman). - Alternatively, you can download the plugin from the repository. Unzip it and upload it to the plugins folder of your WordPress installation (
wp-content/plugins/directory of your WordPress installation). - Activate it through the ‘Plugins’ section.
Frequently Asked Questions
Please visit Watchamn’s FAQ page.
Read Watchman Documentation
Review feed
No reviews available
Changelog
Please visit Watchman’s Roadmap page to get some details about future releases.
0.7.1
- Adds Screenshot for #12
0.7
- Fixes #12 – Revision Limit for Individual Posts
- Fixes #14 – User can stop saving revisions for post type with number 0
0.6 December 18, 2015
- Fixes #6 – Track Post Status
- Fixes #7 – Track Post Date
- Fixes #13 – Stops unnecessary revisions getting created
- Adds Settings link in Plugin Row Action
- Fixes few Translation Strings
0.5 December 17, 2015
- Post Author tracking added.
- This update is coming after a long time & I’ve got this breakthrough to track the restricted fields as well.
- So I hope to get more updates soon with proposed features. Kudos!
0.4 December 12, 2014
- Screenshot added
0.3 December 12, 2014
- Plugin title changed
0.2 Decempber 11, 2014
- Watchman Settings introduced
- Revision Limit by Post Type
- Watchman Icon added
0.1 Decempber 03, 2014
- Plugin Scaffolding
- Basic Functionality
- Travis Setup



