Fixes JavaScript error capture on cached sites, where every report was silently rejected.\nAlso stops installing the PHP error handler on sites that never connected, and names the\nvisitor data a JS error report carries. Recommended for all sites.<\/p>","0.4.0":"
Adds plugin-install, theme-update and watched-option change detection, and corrects the\ndata-collection disclosure to list WooCommerce\/EDD commerce data. Option values are never\ntransmitted. Recommended for all sites.<\/p>","0.3.1":"
Fixes WooCommerce\/EDD order, refund, and failed-payment tracking, which never registered\non the usual plugin load order. Recommended for all WooCommerce and EDD sites.<\/p>","0.3.0":"
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ChangeTrace watches your WordPress and WooCommerce site for meaningful changes and\nerrors and sends them to the ChangeTrace service (a cloud dashboard at\nhttps:\/\/app.change-trace.com), where they are correlated against metrics to surface\nthe most likely cause of a movement, with evidence.<\/p>\n\n
This plugin is the on-site agent. It does nothing until you connect it: you paste a\nsite token generated in the ChangeTrace dashboard, and only then does the plugin begin\nsending data to the ChangeTrace API.<\/p>\n\n
What it collects (once connected):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n All error payloads are PII-stripped<\/strong> (emails, credentials, form values, card numbers)\nand size-capped before they are queued and sent. Events are held in a bounded local queue\nand sent in batches (roughly every 5 minutes) with retry\/backoff.<\/p>\n\n Performance:<\/strong> collection is event-driven and adds no scheduled work beyond two WP-Cron\njobs (an hourly heartbeat and a 5-minute queue flush). The queue is a single non-autoloaded\noption capped at 500 events. The plugin does not measure page speed on your server \u2014 page\nperformance is measured by ChangeTrace from outside, so nothing runs in your visitors'\nbrowsers except the small sampled JavaScript error handler.<\/p>\n\n A ChangeTrace account is required.<\/strong> ChangeTrace is a third-party SaaS. See the\n\"External services\" section below for exactly what is sent and where.<\/p>\n\n This plugin connects to the ChangeTrace service to send monitoring data. This connection\nis required for the plugin to do anything, and only starts after you connect the plugin\nwith a site token from the ChangeTrace dashboard.<\/p>\n\n Services used<\/strong><\/p>\n\n What data is sent, and when<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Your site token is stored on your site and only ever sent to the API as an Authorization\nheader; the API stores only a hash of it. No data is sent before you connect.<\/p>\n\n This service is provided by ChangeTrace. By connecting your site you agree to their terms\nand privacy policy:<\/p>\n\n Advanced: the API, dashboard, privacy, and terms URLs can be overridden in Yes. ChangeTrace is a hosted service. The plugin is the on-site agent and needs a site\ntoken from https:\/\/app.change-trace.com to do anything.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. Nothing leaves your site until you paste a valid site token and connect. See the\n\"External services\" section for what is sent afterward.<\/p><\/dd>\n Error payloads are PII-stripped (emails, credentials, form values, card numbers) and\nsize-capped before being queued and sent. The baseline snapshot contains software\nversions and plugin\/theme names, not visitor data.<\/p>\n\n A front-end JavaScript error is the one event that carries anything about a visitor: the\nbrowser's user-agent string and the address of the page the error happened on, with the\nquery string stripped. No form values, cookies or identifiers are read.<\/p>\n\n Commerce events carry order totals, currency, payment method and order status, plus the\norder id \u2014 never customer names, addresses, emails, phone numbers or line items. Fields a\ncustomer typed into checkout are discarded outright rather than filtered.<\/p>\n\n Watched-option values are never transmitted; only the option name and a shape summary.<\/p><\/dd>\n Collection is event-driven and the handlers are wrapped so a collector error can never\nbreak a page, a checkout or a purchase. Work on the request path is limited to appending\nto a bounded local queue. Sending happens on WP-Cron, not during a page view. Frontend\nJavaScript error capture is sampled (about 25% of page loads, capped at 5 errors per load).<\/p>\n\n The plugin does not measure page speed on your server; page performance is measured by\nChangeTrace from outside your hosting.<\/p><\/dd>\n Deactivate the plugin, or disconnect the site from the ChangeTrace connect screen. You\ncan also delete the plugin; it cleans up its stored token and options on uninstall.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. Define \n
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site_tok_<\/code>), and paste it into the connect screen.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\nwp-config.php<\/code>\nvia CHANGETRACE_API_BASE_URL<\/code>, CHANGETRACE_APP_URL<\/code>, CHANGETRACE_PRIVACY_URL<\/code>, and\n CHANGETRACE_TERMS_URL, or via the matching changetrace_*<\/code> filters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do I need a ChangeTrace account?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does the plugin send any data before I connect it?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Is personal data sent to ChangeTrace?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does the plugin slow my site down?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
How do I stop sending data?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Can I point the plugin at a self-hosted or staging environment?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
CHANGETRACE_API_BASE_URL<\/code> (and optionally CHANGETRACE_APP_URL<\/code>) in\n wp-config.php.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\n0.4.1 - 2026-10-02<\/h4>\n\n
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plugin_installed<\/code> event. Previously a\nplugin that appeared on disk without being activated was absorbed silently into the\nbaseline and could never be offered as a possible cause.<\/li>\noption_changed<\/code>): permalink structure, siteurl, home, active plugins, template,\nstylesheet, blog_public, core auto-update policy, and WooCommerce payment gateway\nsettings. Only the option NAME and a summary of its shape (type, size\/length and a\nshort one-way hash) are sent \u2014 never the option's value, because several of these hold\nlive API keys. No other option is monitored.<\/li>\nincludes\/Support\/Event_Types.php<\/code>) and\ncompared against the ChangeTrace API's own registry by an automated check, so the\nplugin cannot ship a type the service does not understand.<\/li>\n0.3.1 - 2026-09-21<\/h4>\n\n
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