WP Security Audit Log
Add to ListMonitor activity on your WordPress sites and get clear insights into what’s happening with detailed user and event logging.
Keep WordPress logs of everything that happens on your sites and multisite networks with WP Activity Log to:
- Track user logins and logouts to ensure service level agreements (SLAs) are consistently met
- Record failed login attempts to identify potential security breaches and enhance site security
- Monitor user activity and productivity to promote accountability
- Know what happened before an outage for easier troubleshooting
- Know exactly what all your users are doing
- Ensure compliance with regulations and standards such as GDPR and PCI DSS
- Better manage & organize your site & users
- Easily detect suspicious activity on your WordPress site before it escalates into security issues
WP Activity Log is a complete logging solution, helping hundreds of thousands of administrators and security professionals track changes on their websites thanks to real-time user activity monitoring.
WordPress changes and details WP Activity Log keeps track of
A website activity log is an important tool in improving troubleshooting, compliance, user management, and security.
Get WP Activity Log and keep track of events on your site. The log not only tells you that a post, a user profile, or an object was updated, it also lets you know exactly what changed, when, and includes a user log (by whom) so you always have the information you need.
Below is a summary of the changes that the plugin can keep a record of:
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Post, page and custom post type changes such as status, content changes, title, URL, custom field, and other metadata changes
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Tags and category changes such as creating, modifying or deleting them, and adding or removing them from posts
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Widget and menu changes such as creating, modifying, or deleting them
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User changes such as user created or registered, deleted, or added to a site on multisite network
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User profile changes such as password, email, display name, and role changes
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Access logging such as user login, logout, failed logins, and terminating other sessions
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WordPress core and settings changes such as installed updates, permalinks, default role, URL, and other site-wide changes
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WordPress multisite network changes such as adding, deleting or archiving sites, adding or removing users from sites, etc.
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Plugin and Theme changes such as installing, activating, deactivating, uninstalling, and updating
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WordPress database changes such as when a plugin adds or removes a table
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Changes to WooCommerce Stores & products, Yoast SEO, WPForms, Gravity Forms, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), MainWP and other popular WordPress plugins.
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WordPress site file changes such as new files are added, or existing ones are modified or deleted.
Detailed event logging ensures that for every event that the plugin records, it reports the:
- Date & time (and milliseconds) of when it happened
- User & role of the user who did the change
- Source IP address from where the change happened
- The object on which the change has taken place
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.
Upgrade to WP Activity Log Premium and get even more
The premium edition of WP Activity Log takes WordPress user activity tracking to the next level. It comes bundled with even more features to take your WordPress website administration and security to the next level.
Premium features list
- See who is logged in and their current activities in real-time
- Log off any user at the click of a button
- Generate fully-configurable HTML and CSV reports
- Get email and SMS notifications with important changes (fully configurable)
- Search filters to fine tune the search results and find what you need in seconds
- Store activity log in an external database to improve security and scalability
- Mirror the activity log to logs management systems such as AWS CloudWatch, Loggly, and Papertrail in real-time
- Easily mirror the logs in real-time to business communication systems such as Slack
- Send a copy of your websites’ activity log to a log file on your web server in real-time
- Archive old activity log data to another database for better storage and log management
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 third-party plugin support
All WP Activity Log editions include activity tracking for third-party plugins, including:
- WooCommerce: Keep a log of changes to the WooCommerce store settings, orders, products, coupons, and much more
- Yoast SEO: Keep a log of changes to Yoast SEO settings, on-page SEO in the Yoast SEO meta box, and much more
- WPForms: Keep a log of changes to WPForms settings, forms, form files, entries (leads) and more
- Gravity Forms: Keep a log of changes to Gravity Forms settings, forms, forms settings, entries (leads), and more
- MemberPress: Keep a log of changes to your MemberPress powered website, including plugin settings changes, memberships, payments, subscriptions and other changes that your team does on your website
- bbPress: Keep a log of changes to bbPress forums, topics, bbPress settings and more
- MainWP: Keep a log of MainWP network changes and see the activity logs of all child sites from one central location – the MainWP dashboard
- Advanced Custom Fields: Keep a log of changes to post types, taxonomies, and taxonomy terms
- Redirection: Keep a log of changes to redirections and redirection groups
Other Noteworthy Features
Both free and premium editions of WP Activity Log include a number of non-logging specific features that make the plugin a complete WordPress logging solution. Here is what is included:
Free
- Built-in support for reverse proxies and web application firewalls
- Integration with WhatIsMyIpAddress.com allow you to get all information about an IP address with just a mouse click.
- Limit who can view the WordPress activity log by users or roles
- Settings to enable/disable individual event IDs from the activity log
- Configurable dashboard widget highlighting the most recent critical activity
- Configurable WordPress activity log retention policies
- User avatar is displayed in the events for better recognizability
- And much more!
Premium
Everything that’s included in the Free edition, plus:
- Full WordPress multisite support
- Easily create your custom alerts & notifications to monitor additional functionality
- Import/export plugin settings
- Real-time activity log in WordPress admin toolbar
- And much more!
Free and premium plugin support
If you encounter any issues with the free edition of WP Activity Log, you can post and get help on the WordPress.org support forums. You can also find more technical information and plugin documentation on the Melapress knowledge base.
Premium plugins include a full year of free updates and dedicated one-to-one premium email support. This means you get direct access to our support team who will assist you with any questions or issues related to the plugins.
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Installing WP Activity Log
Install WP Activity Log from within WordPress
- Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
- Search for ‘WP Activity Log’
- Install and activate the WP Activity Log plugin
- Allow or skip diagnostic tracking
Install WP Activity Log manually
- Extract the plugin ZIP file and upload it to the
/wp-content/plugins/
directory - Activate the WP Activity Log plugin from the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Allow or skip diagnostic tracking