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<p>The Activity Logs plugin will record most of the changes that occur in your WordPress blog or multisite network, making it easy for you to keep on track of what everyone is doing, or to catch up on what happened since you last checked in.</p>
<p>It’s a very simple to use plugin (though it offers good extensibility to advanced users and plugin authors): just activate it and the logs will be recorded automatically, and an activity stream will appear on your dashboard.</p>
<p>The Activity Logs plugin keeps track of post, pages, custom post types and comments transitions, settings changes, plugin activations, import, export, user and site management in a simple, seamless way.</p>
<h3>Feedback and Support</h3>
<p>Comments are welcome. You can contact me directly via tbuteler@gmail.com.<br />
If you think you’ve found a bug, or you want to make this plugin better, go to <a href="https://github.com/tbuteler/ck_activity_logs" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.<br />
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Activity Logs

A WordPress plugin which logs and displays relevant activity within your blog or network.

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<p>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.</p>
<p>Monitored actions include (not exhaustive):</p>
<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>
<p>The logged information consists of:</p>
<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>
<p>The <a href="https://bitbucket.org/edward_electric/activity-monitor" rel="nofollow ugc">Activity Monitor has a git repository</a>.</p>
<h4>Security tips</h4>
<p>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:</p>
<ul>
<li>Get a DDOS protection service with an API. There is a plugin to ban IPs via CloudFlare (<em>Send To CloudFlare</em>). 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 <em>Send To Exec</em> plugin.</li>
<li>If you can’t ban users using a script, at least set up the <em>Send To E-mail</em> 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 <em>Send To Exec</em>.</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 <em>Login Failed Username</em> plugin. Ban the IPs that cause the plugin to react.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Custom hooks</h4>
<p>See the <a href="https://pvactivitymonitor.com/doc/dev/" rel="nofollow ugc">developer documentation</a> for relevant info on how to create custom hooks.</p>


Plainview Activity Monitor

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

Activity Logs vs Plainview Activity Monitor