Piyush Asthana

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.
<h4>Privacy defaults</h4>
<ul>
<li>External-service features are opt-in.</li>
<li>Geolocation (<code>ip-api.com</code>) is disabled by default (<code>enable_geo = 0</code>).</li>
<li>Outbound webhooks (Slack/Discord/Teams/custom URL) are disabled by default 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>Custom tables — logs live in <code>{prefix}apwpm_activity_logs</code> (not post meta) with indexes for fast queries.</li>
<li>Modern admin UI — dashboard, timeline, filters, search, pagination, exports, dark mode, and keyboard shortcuts.</li>
<li>Security-first — capability checks, REST nonces, prepared SQL, output escaping, and optional sudo mode for destructive actions.</li>
<li>Break detection — spots error spikes and surfaces recent risky changes.</li>
<li>Extensible — 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>
Log custom events from your code:
<pre><code>APWPM_Logger::log( array( 'action_type' => 'my_event', 'description' => 'Something happened' ) );
</code></pre>
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.
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin can connect to third-party services only when you enable the related feature and, for webhooks, when you provide URLs.
<h4>IP geolocation (optional)</h4>
When Enable geolocation 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.
<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>
When webhooks are enabled and URLs are saved in settings, the plugin sends HTTP POST requests to your endpoints (for example Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, or a custom URL) when qualifying events occur.
<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): 
Slack: https://slack.com/terms-of-service , https://slack.com/privacy-policy 
Discord: https://discord.com/terms , https://discord.com/privacy 
Microsoft Teams (Microsoft): https://www.microsoft.com/servicesagreement , https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement</li>
</ul>
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.
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.

ActivityPilot

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

Deryck

LogDash Activity Log is the ultimate solution for tracking activities on your WordPress site. With its comprehensive features and intuitive interface, managing your website’s activity log has never been easier.
Designed with simplicity in mind, LogDash Activity Log allows you to effortlessly monitor and track all actions on your WordPress site, including user logins, content changes, plugin updates, and more. Its user-friendly dashboard gives you instant access to critical information, making it easy to identify and resolve issues quickly.
Whether you’re managing a personal blog or a large corporate website, LogDash Activity Log Plugin is the perfect tool for enhancing your site’s security.
Log everything that happens on you WordPress website to:
<ul>
<li>Gain full visibility: Stay informed about everything happening on your WordPress site, from user logins and content updates to plugin installations and more.</li>
<li>Strengthen site security: Easily spot suspicious behavior before it becomes a security threat with real-time alerts and customizable notifications, providing an added layer of protection for your site.</li>
<li>Boost user productivity: Monitor user activity and identify ways to optimize your site and workflow, leading to increased productivity.</li>
<li>Enhance user accountability: Keep your users accountable with detailed logs of their actions on your site. This helps to promote responsible behavior and reduce errors.</li>
<li>Simplify troubleshooting: Makes it easy to pinpoint the source of errors or issues on your site, enabling you to troubleshoot more efficiently and effectively.</li>
<li>Streamline site management: Make use of shortcuts to gain quick access to modified content, simplifying site administration and reducing complexity.</li>
</ul>
LogDash Activity Log is FREE. You can keep your log events for as long as you need – there’s no restriction on the duration of your logs.
Here’s an overview of the modifications that the plugin is capable of tracking and storing:
<ul>
<li>Core Updates: such as upgrades, downgrades and re-downloads.</li>
<li>Themes: such as downloads, installations, upgrades, activations, theme switch and deletions.</li>
<li>Plugins: such as downloads, installations, upgrades, activations, theme switch and deletions.</li>
<li>Files: such as uploads or every files, including plugins and themes and updates in WordPress theme or plugin editors.</li>
<li>Attachments: Uploads and updates for every attachment.</li>
<li>Posts, Pages and Custom Posts: such as title, content (with quick link to rollback revisions), status, taxonomies and many more.</li>
<li>Settings: such as the Blog Title, Date format and every setting in WordPress.</li>
<li>Categories, Tags and Custom Taxonomies: such as creating, removing, updating and adding values to posts, pages and custom posts.</li>
<li>Users profile changes: such as name, email, role changes (including support for multiple roles) and every profile related data.</li>
<li>User activity: such as failed logins, login, logout and terminating other user sessions.</li>
</ul>
Note: LogDash also support WooCommerce, ACF, LogDash as well a every Custom Post Type. Support will be improved and extended in a Premium version in the future.

LogDash Activity Log

The ultimate solution for tracking activities and security issues on your WordPress site.

ActivityPilot vs LogDash Activity Log