Having dates on each modification would be a security feature

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    gidmeister · Member ·

    In my dashboard, I can see the latest modifications I made to the site. It might tell me I modified a post on “ecology”, followed by modifying a comment, followed by modifying another post. But the date and time of each modification is missing.
    This would be helpful as a security feature – If my last modification was a week ago, and I see one listed as having happened a day ago, then I know my blog was tampered with.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • ehtis · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    You actually can find out when a particular post was modified, and by whom.

    It’s called Post Revisions and it lists the previous 25 changes made to a post in the old editor. Read more on how to enable and view revisions here.

    You can access the old editor which supports post revisions from Dashboard > WP Admin > Posts.

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    gidmeister · Member ·

    Thanks. Your answer is a big help, but it would also be nice if at a glance, a person could look at the recent revisions list (which does exist, but is for all posts) and see the dates. The reason is this. I looked at your link on “Post Revisions” and to see them, you have to know what post you are interested in, choose it, and then look at revisions. But suppose a hacker altered the text in a post you made a long time ago. You probably could first look at the list of recent changes on the dashboard, and then maybe for the most recent 3 or 4 go to “Post Revisions”, but it would be more convenient to see dates on that list as well.
    But your answer is a solution.

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