Piyush Asthana

<p>ActivityPilot is an activity log and audit-trail plugin for developers, agencies, and security-conscious site owners. Meaningful changes on your site — logins, content edits, plugin and theme operations, role changes, high-impact options, integrations, and more — are stored in a dedicated database table and shown in a modern admin timeline.</p>
<h4>Privacy defaults</h4>
<ul>
<li>External-service features are <strong>opt-in</strong>.</li>
<li>Geolocation (<code>ip-api.com</code>) is <strong>disabled by default</strong> (<code>enable_geo = 0</code>).</li>
<li>Outbound webhooks (Slack/Discord/Teams/custom URL) are <strong>disabled by default</strong> until you enable them and provide destination URLs.</li>
<li>The plugin does not send data to third-party services unless you explicitly enable and configure those features.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Why use this plugin?</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Custom tables</strong> — logs live in <code>{prefix}apwpm_activity_logs</code> (not post meta) with indexes for fast queries.</li>
<li><strong>Modern admin UI</strong> — dashboard, timeline, filters, search, pagination, exports, dark mode, and keyboard shortcuts.</li>
<li><strong>Security-first</strong> — capability checks, REST nonces, prepared SQL, output escaping, and optional sudo mode for destructive actions.</li>
<li><strong>Break detection</strong> — spots error spikes and surfaces recent risky changes.</li>
<li><strong>Extensible</strong> — REST API (<code>activitypilot/v1</code>), hooks, custom event registry, and PSR-3 adapter.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Core features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Activity logging for logins, posts, plugins, themes, users, roles, and important site options</li>
<li>Timeline view with avatars, severity colors, and structured context</li>
<li>Filters by user, action, object type, severity, date range, status, assignee, and search</li>
<li>CSV and JSON exports; daily retention pruning via cron</li>
<li>Email alerts when break detection finds unusual error activity</li>
<li>Workflow: acknowledge, resolve, snooze, assign, and comment on events</li>
<li>Smart insights: bursts, off-hours access, role escalation, and statistical spikes</li>
<li>Optional rollback for supported change types (sudo-gated)</li>
<li>Analytics heatmap, hour-of-day chart, and top users</li>
<li>Scheduled HTML digest reports (daily, weekly, monthly)</li>
<li>Multisite support with per-site tagging and network overview</li>
<li>Hash-chain integrity verification (optional)</li>
<li>File integrity monitoring, IP throttle, PII redaction, GDPR export/erase helpers</li>
<li>Integrations: WooCommerce, ACF, popular form builders, SEO plugins, page builders</li>
<li>Optional outbound webhooks (Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, generic URL)</li>
<li>WP-CLI: <code>wp apwpm list|count|verify|prune|purge|export|digest|scan-files</code></li>
</ul>
<h4>For developers</h4>
<p>Log custom events from your code:</p>
<pre><code>APWPM_Logger::log( array( 'action_type' => 'my_event', 'description' => 'Something happened' ) );
</code></pre>
<p>Filter hooks include <code>apwpm_skip_log</code>, <code>apwpm_pre_insert_row</code>, and <code>apwpm_register_event_types</code>. The shorter <code>ap_*</code> hook names from earlier builds are still fired for backward compatibility.</p>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin can connect to third-party services <strong>only when you enable the related feature</strong> and, for webhooks, when you provide URLs.</p>
<h4>IP geolocation (optional)</h4>
<p>When <strong>Enable geolocation</strong> is on, the plugin may send the visitor IP address to <a href="http://ip-api.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">ip-api.com</a> to resolve country and city. No API key is required. Results are cached in WordPress transients (about 24 hours). See the <a href="https://ip-api.com/docs/legal" rel="nofollow ugc">ip-api privacy policy</a> for their terms.</p>
<ul>
<li>Data sent: IP address (in the request URL).</li>
<li>When: On log insert for events that include an IP, if geo is enabled and not already set.</li>
<li>Purpose: Display country/city on timeline rows and detect logins from new countries.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Outbound webhooks (optional)</h4>
<p>When webhooks are enabled and URLs are saved in settings, the plugin sends HTTP POST requests to <strong>your</strong> endpoints (for example Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, or a custom URL) when qualifying events occur.</p>
<ul>
<li>Data sent: Event title, description, severity, site name, and related metadata you configure to receive.</li>
<li>When: After an event is logged that meets your minimum severity threshold.</li>
<li>Purpose: Notify external chat or monitoring systems.</li>
<li>Services/endpoints: Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, or any custom HTTPS endpoint that you explicitly configure.</li>
<li>Terms/privacy (when using those services):<br />
Slack: https://slack.com/terms-of-service , https://slack.com/privacy-policy<br />
Discord: https://discord.com/terms , https://discord.com/privacy<br />
Microsoft Teams (Microsoft): https://www.microsoft.com/servicesagreement , https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement</li>
</ul>
<p>Webhook delivery is fully optional and disabled by default. No webhook requests are sent until you enable webhooks and provide at least one destination URL.</p>
<p>The plugin does not include bundled third-party API keys. Geolocation and webhooks are optional and disabled by default until configured by a site administrator.</p>


ActivityPilot

Track, visualize, and analyze admin and user activity in a timeline UI with break detection, workflows, REST API, and exportable audit logs.

Milan Petrovic

<p>CoreActivity is a free plugin for monitoring and logging various activities of the WordPress powered website. The plugin is highly modular, with events registered and controlled by multiple Components.</p>
<h4>Quick Introduction Video</h4>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JCukiRMWjeA?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<p>Currently, plugin has 28 components with a total of 182 events, with direct integration with 12 popular plugins.</p>
<h4>WordPress Core Components</h4>
<ul>
<li>Attachments (3 events)</li>
<li>Comments (5 events)</li>
<li>Errors (6 events)</li>
<li>Notifications (4 events)</li>
<li>Options (7 events)</li>
<li>Plugins (9 events)</li>
<li>Posts (6 events)</li>
<li>Privacy (10 events)</li>
<li>Terms (6 events)</li>
<li>Themes (6 events)</li>
<li>Users (21 events)</li>
<li>WordPress (8 events)</li>
<li>REST API (8 events)</li>
</ul>
<h4>WordPress Network Only Components</h4>
<ul>
<li>Multisite Network (15 events)</li>
<li>Sitemeta (7 events)</li>
</ul>
<h4>CoreActivity Internal Component</h4>
<ul>
<li>Internal (4 events)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Third-party Plugins Components</h4>
<ul>
<li>bbPress (6 events)</li>
<li>BuddyPress (4 events)</li>
<li>Contact Form 7 (3 events)</li>
<li>DebugPress (9 event)</li>
<li>Duplicate Post (1 event)</li>
<li>Forminator (1 event)</li>
<li>GD Forum Manager (4 event)</li>
<li>Gravity Forms (6 events)</li>
<li>Jetpack (2 events)</li>
<li>SweepPress (11 event)</li>
<li>User Switching (4 events)</li>
<li>WooCommerce (6 events)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Geo Location of IPs</h4>
<p>The plugin can locate where the IP making the request is coming from. There are currently three methods available, with more coming in the future:</p>
<ul>
<li>Online via GeoJS.io website</li>
<li>IP2Location Local Database</li>
<li>MaxMind GeoLite2 Local Database</li>
</ul>
<p>To use IP2Location, you need to have an account on IP2Location, to get the download token, and getting the Lite versions of the database is free. To use MaxMind GeoLite2, you need to have MaxMind account, and the license for downloading the files, it is free for the GeoLite2 database files. Plugin supports use of all Lite databases for both providers, and using the provided token it can keep the database updated on a weekly basis.</p>
<h4>More Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Instant Notifications</li>
<li>Daily Digest Notifications</li>
<li>Weekly Digest Notifications</li>
<li>IP WhoIs Information</li>
<li>Request Device Detection</li>
<li>Users login, logout, online tracking</li>
<li>Log Cleanup Tools</li>
<li>Auto Log Cleanup</li>
<li>Log Live Updates</li>
<li>Define Exceptions</li>
</ul>
<h4>Home, Documentation and GitHub</h4>
<ul>
<li>Learn more about the plugin: <a href="https://www.dev4press.com/plugins/coreactivity/" rel="nofollow ugc">CoreActivity Website</a></li>
<li>Plugin Knowledge Base: <a href="https://www.dev4press.com/kb/coreactivity/" rel="nofollow ugc">CoreActivity Support</a></li>
<li>Contribute to plugin development: <a href="https://github.com/dev4press/coreactivity" rel="nofollow ugc">CoreActivity on GitHub</a></li>
</ul>


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