Title: Watchman
Author: Udit Desai
Published: <strong>December 11, 2014</strong>
Last modified: December 19, 2015

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Search plugins

This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/watchman.svg)

# Watchman

 By [Udit Desai](https://profiles.wordpress.org/desaiuditd/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/watchman.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/watchman/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/watchman/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/watchman/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/watchman/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/watchman/)

## 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](http://blog.incognitech.in/watchman/)
 * [Roadmap](http://blog.incognitech.in/watchman/roadmap/)
 * [Documentation](http://blog.incognitech.in/watchman/docs/)
 * [FAQ](http://blog.incognitech.in/watchman/faq/)
 * [GitHub](http://github.com/desaiuditd/watchman/) – Please mention your wordpress.
   org username when sending pull requests.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Watchman Settings Page
 * [[
 * Track Post Author in Revisions. User Display Name & User ID of the author is 
   shown.
 * [[
 * Track Post Status in Revisions. Label of Post Status is shown.
 * [[
 * Set Revision Limit for individual posts.

## Installation

 * Install the plugin from the ‘Plugins’ section in your dashboard (Go to `Plugins
   > Add New > Search` and search for Watchman).
 * Alternatively, you can [download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/watchman.zip)
   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.

## FAQ

Please visit [Watchamn’s FAQ page](http://blog.incognitech.in/watchman/faq/).

Read Watchman [Documentation](http://blog.incognitech.in/watchman/docs/)

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Watchman” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Udit Desai ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/desaiuditd/)

[Translate “Watchman” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/watchman)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/watchman/), check out
the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/watchman/), or subscribe 
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/watchman/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/watchman/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

Please visit [Watchman’s Roadmap page](http://blog.incognitech.in/watchman/roadmap/)
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

## Meta

 *  Version **0.7.1**
 *  Last updated **10 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.6 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.4.34**
 * Tags
 * [page](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/page/)[post](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post/)
   [posts](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)[revision](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/revision/)
   [revisions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/revisions/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/watchman/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  1 5-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/watchman/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/watchman/reviews/?filter=4)
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## Contributors

 *   [ Udit Desai ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/desaiuditd/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/watchman/)

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