How do I find a history of my deletions, edits, etc., without a plug-in?

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  vagabondwithfamily · Member · May 12, 2015 at 7:24 am

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  My ex is claiming I libeled her in a blog post (not true), but she claims to the court that I deleted the post on a certain date last fall. Is there a way to find a list showing a history of deleted posts, when they were made, etc.?

  I know I can go to a particular post and find any historical revisions I’ve made, but since I never did such a thing, I have no blog posting name to search for in the first place. That’s why I’d like to show a simple history of all post edits/changes/deletions.

  I am using a simple version of WP, so I cannot install any plug-ins (having already downloaded a history plug-in, but later finding out I cannot do that since I don’t have the WP.org account).

  Is there another way to do this?

  Thanks!

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  alexjgustafson · Member · May 12, 2015 at 6:04 pm

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  Hi there,

  You mentioned the revision history of specific posts, but that’s the only history stored of your posts and their edits. Even if a post did exist and was deleted, once the trash was emptied (happens automatically every 30 days) the revision history goes with it.

  Even with a history plugin, I believe this would only work when you have the history plugin installed before such incidents allegedly occur.

  There are some cached views of your site at the Internet Archive:

  http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://vagabondwithfamily.wordpress.com/

  Is that helpful at all?

  -Alex G.

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  vagabondwithfamily · Member · May 12, 2015 at 11:22 pm

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  Thank you, Alex G.

  I thought there might be a list of all history having taken place, something that shows all activity on one screen (instead of revisions for each post). Shot in the dark!

  Yes, I used WayBackMachine last night, which shows the posts I’d had on 10/15/14 and after, and even a few months before in August. However, her claim is that a post I made on 10/14 of that year was put up and removed (which doesn’t really make sense if she’s labeling it as libel [though it doesn’t exist because no such post was made]–because if it were only up for that day or less, who the hell read it?

  Anyway, Alex, sorry for the vent! ; )

  Happy blogging!