Keep a comprehensive log of user and system changes that take place on your WordPress website with the the #1 user-rated activity log plugin.
Keep an activity log of everything that happens on your WordPress sites and multisite networks with the WP Activity Log plugin to:
WP Activity Log is the most comprehensive real-ime user activity and monitoring log plugin. It helps hundreds of thousands of WordPress administrators and security professionals keep an eye on what is happening on their websites and is the most highly-ated activity log plugin for WordPress.
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As a comprehensive and thorough activity log solution for WordPress, WP Activity Log not only tells you that a post, a user profile, or an object was updated, it also lets you know exactly what was changed within the post, the user profile, or the object.
Below is a summary of the changes that the plugin can keep a record of:
Post, page and custom post type changes such as status, content changes, title, URL, custom field, and other metadata changes
Tags and categories changes such as creating, modifying or deleting them, and adding or removing them from posts
Widgets and menus changes such as creating, modifying, or deleting them
User changes such as user created or registered, deleted, or added to a site on multisite network
User profile changes such as password, email, display name, and role changes
User activity such as login, logout, failed logins, and terminating other sessions
WordPress core and settings changes such as installed updates, permalinks, default role, URL, and other site-wide changes
WordPress multisite network changes such as adding, deleting or archiving sites, adding or removing users from sites etc (activity logs for multisite networks).
Plugins and Themes changes such as installing, activating, deactivating, uninstalling, and updating
WordPress database changes such as when a plugin adds or removes a table
Changes on WooCommerce Stores & products, Yoast SEO, WPForms, Gravity Forms, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), MainWP and other popular WordPress plugins.
WordPress site file changes such as new files are added, or existing ones are modified or deleted.
For every event that the plugin records it also reports the:
Refer to WordPress activity log event IDs for a complete list of all the changes WP Activity Log can keep a record of and a detailed explanation of what change every event ID represents.
The premium version of WP Activity Log comes bundled with even more features to take your WordPress website administration and security to the next level.
With the premium edition of WP Activity Log, you get:
Refer to the WP Activity Log plugin features and benefits page to learn more about the benefits of upgrading to WP Activity Log Premium.
WP Activity Log can keep also a detailed log of changes that happen on third-party plugins, including:
Refer to activity logs for third party WordPress plugins for a complete list of all the plugins WP Activity Log can keep a log of.
On top of the comprehensive activity log, WP Activity Log also has a number of non-logging specific features that make it a complete WordPress logging solution, such as:
Premium world-class support for WP Activity Log is free via email or through the WordPress support forums.
Note: Paid customer support is given priority and is provided via one-to-one email. Upgrade to Premium to benefit from priority support.
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You can find more detailed information about WP Activity Log and its benefits in the links below
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directoryThe WordPress activity logs from where the site administrator can see all the user and site changes.
See who is logged in to your WordPress and manage users sessions with Users Sessions Management in the Premium edition.
The plugin settings from where site administrator can configure generic plugin settings such as reverse proxy support, who can manage the plugin etc.
Use the event Inspector to see more technical details about each event in the activity log, such as the session ID and UserAgent string.
Configuring WordPress email and instant SMS alerts with the Email & SMS Notifications module in the Premium edition.
Search in the WordPress activity log with the use filters to fine tune the search results.
The Enable/Disable events section from where Administrators can disable or enable activity log events.
The Activity Log Viewer of a Super Admin in a WordPress multisite network installation alllows the admin to view the logs from all the network, or filter the logs of a specific site.
WP Activity Log is integrated with the built-in revision system of WordPress, thus allowing you to see what content changes users make on your WordPress posts, pages and custom post types. For more information read Keep Record of All WordPress Content Changes
Mirror the WordPress activity log to an external solution such as Syslog or Papertrail to centralize logging in the Premium edition, to ensure logs are always available and cannot be tampered with in the unfortunate case of a hack attack.
Use the plugin settings to exclude objects from the logs, configure automatic pruning of events, which timestamp to be shonw in the logs and much more. The plugin is fully confirable.
Generate any type of statistics reports from the actiivty log with the Premium edition. You can see statistics such as number of newly registered users, number of user profile changes, number of logins, different IP addresses per user, and much more.
Use the Premium edition to also export any activity log data to an HTML report or CSV file. CSV files are the most widely supported format and can easily be read, parsed and imported in third party systems.
No, the free version does not limit the data the plugin collects. The preium version adds additional features such as extensive log filtering options, external database/log management service integration, user session management, and much more.
You can keep the log data for as long as you want to, with no limits whatsoever placed on data retention. You can keep the log data forever if you want to.
No, the plugin does not send any log data to us whatsoever. The only data we recieve is license data from the premium edition of the plugin.
We update the plugin fairly regularly to ensure the plugin continues to run in tip-top shape while adding new features from time to time.
WP Activity Log will not slow down your website. Each release is tested before release to ensure it works in the best way possible. Having said that, you need to make sure your WordPress web server has adequate resources to manage the load of your website.
Please refer to our support pages for all the technical and product documentation.
Improvements
Updated the text of some of the events listed in the Enabled/Disable events section.
Refer to the complete plugin changelog for more detailed information about what was new, improved and fixed in previous version updates of WP Activity Log.