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Activity Logger is a plugin that helps you keep track of all activities carried out by logged-in users, including post/page edits, plugin activations, and more. You can also exclude certain types of updates from being logged and filter logs through an admin interface.
Key Features: 
– Logs post/page creation, updates, deletions, and media uploads. 
– Tracks plugin activation, deactivation, and option updates. 
– Allows excluding specific options from logging via the settings interface. 
– Logs user login, logout, profile updates, and password resets. 
– Supports bulk and individual deletion of logs. 
– Search and filter logs by username, action, post type, or date. 
– Export logs in CSV format. 
– Settings page for defining exclusions (option names or prefixes). 
– Custom admin menu for easy navigation and configuration of logs.
<h3>Roadmap</h3>
Upcoming Features: 
– Improved Reporting: A detailed reporting interface for visualising activity data with charts and graphs. 
– User Roles: Add user-role-based filtering to log activity based on specific user roles. 
– Notifications: Email notifications for specific logged actions (e.g., plugin activation, critical post updates). 
– Advanced Search: Enhanced search functionality with additional filters like IP address, location, and device. 
– Log Retention Settings: Ability to define log retention periods and automatically purge older logs. 
– REST API Support: Adding REST API endpoints to access and manage logs programmatically. 
– Multisite Compatibility: Ensure full multisite compatibility with network-level logging and export functionality.
We welcome feedback and suggestions for new features!

Activity Logger

Logs all activity within the CMS by logged-in users. Allows for user-defined exclusions, filtering, and log exports.

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Activity Monitor tracks all user activity on your blog or network. The activities can be viewed in global table showing activities on the whole network, or locally for just the blog you are currently viewing. The activites can be filtered so that only specific blogs / hooks / IPs / users are displayed.
Monitored actions include (not exhaustive):
<ul>
<li>Comments: approve, held, spam, delete</li>
<li>Custom Post Types: draft, publish, update, trash, delete</li>
<li>Logins: login, login failed, logout</li>
<li>Pageviews: admin, front-end</li>
<li>Passwords: reset, retrieve</li>
<li>Plugins: activate, deactivate</li>
<li>Pages: draft, publish, update, trash, delete</li>
<li>Posts: draft, publish, update, trash, delete, password</li>
<li>Taxonomies: create, edit, delete</li>
<li>Themes: switched</li>
<li>Updates: WordPress core, plugins, themes</li>
<li>Users: register, delete, profile changes</li>
<li>And more….</li>
</ul>
The logged information consists of:
<ul>
<li>A description of what was logged</li>
<li>Blog</li>
<li>Timestamp</li>
<li>Hook that was triggered</li>
<li>User ID</li>
</ul>
<h4>git</h4>
The <a href="https://bitbucket.org/edward_electric/activity-monitor" rel="nofollow ugc">Activity Monitor has a git repository</a>.
<h4>Security tips</h4>
There are several ways for people to break in to your WordPress installation, or cause trouble by DDOS. Here are some tips on how to use the Activity Monitor and its plugins to help detect problems:
<ul>
<li>Get a DDOS protection service with an API. There is a plugin to ban IPs via CloudFlare (Send To CloudFlare). Other APIs could be supported as the need arises.</li>
<li>If you have another DDOS service, write a script that can ban visitors by IP. Use this script with the Send To Exec plugin.</li>
<li>If you can’t ban users using a script, at least set up the Send To E-mail plugin to inform you of suspicious activity.</li>
<li>Use the Bruteforce Detect plugin to detect when an IP or IPs are trying to guess the admin’s password. Ban the IPs automatically using Send To Exec.</li>
<li>Do not use admin as the username for your administrator account. Instead, use some else and add the admin username to the list of banned usernames in the Login Failed Username plugin. Ban the IPs that cause the plugin to react.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Custom hooks</h4>
See the <a href="https://pvactivitymonitor.com/doc/dev/" rel="nofollow ugc">developer documentation</a> for relevant info on how to create custom hooks.

Plainview Activity Monitor

Real-time monitoring of users, content, functionality, appearance, security, and updates.

Activity Logger vs Plainview Activity Monitor