ArielK

Elementor

Yakir Sitbon

pojo.me

Maor Chasen

<p><strong>AN EASY TO USE & FULLY SUPPORTED WORDPRESS ACTIVITY LOG PLUGIN</strong></p>
<p>Want to monitor and track your WordPress website activity? Find out exactly who does what on your WordPress website with this plugin. Activity Log is like an airplane’s black box that logs every action in the WordPress admin, and lets you see exactly what users are doing on your WordPress website.</p>
<ul>
<li>If someone is trying to hack your site</li>
<li>When a post was published, and who published it</li>
<li>If a plugin/theme was activated/deactivated</li>
<li>Suspicious admin activity</li>
</ul>
<p>It’s so essential; you’ll wonder how you ever managed your website without it. The plugin is also lightning fast and works behind the scenes, so it doesn\’t affect site and admin performance. For optimal performance, we built the plugin so that it runs on a separate table in the database.</p>
<p>If you have more than a handful of users, keeping track of who did what is virtually impossible. This plugin solves that issue by tracking what actions were initiated by which users, and displaying it in an easy-to-use and easy-to-filter view on the dashboard of your WordPress site.</p>
<p><strong>New! Introducing Email Logging</strong> – Capture all emails sent from your WordPress site for streamlined debugging and compliance. Gain better visibility into email communication, aiding both troubleshooting and record-keeping. This is particularly beneficial for WooCommerce stores, allowing you to easily track sent emails alongside other critical site events.</p>
<p><strong>Export to CSV</strong> – Export your Activity Log data records to CSV. Developers can easily add support for custom data formats with our new dedicated Export API.</p>
<p><strong>Data Privacy and GDPR Compliance</strong> – We provide the tools to help you adhere to GDPR compliance standards, including Export/Erasure of data via the WordPress Privacy Tools.</p>
<h3>With the Activity Log you can record:</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>WordPress</strong> – Core updates</li>
<li><strong>Posts</strong> – Created, updated, deleted</li>
<li><strong>Pages</strong> – Created, updated, deleted</li>
<li><strong>Custom Post Type</strong> – Created, updated, deleted</li>
<li><strong>Tags</strong> – Created, updated, deleted</li>
<li><strong>Categories</strong> – Created, updated, deleted</li>
<li><strong>Taxonomies</strong> – Created, updated, deleted</li>
<li><strong>Menus</strong> – Created, updated, deleted</li>
<li><strong>Media</strong> – Created, updated, deleted</li>
<li><strong>Comments</strong> – Created, approved, unapproved, trashed, untrashed, spammed, unspammed, deleted</li>
<li><strong>Users</strong> – Login, logout, login failed, update profile, registered, deleted</li>
<li><strong>Plugins</strong> – Installed, updated, activated, deactivated, changed</li>
<li><strong>Themes</strong> – Installed, updated, deleted, activated, changed (Editor and Customizer)</li>
<li><strong>Widgets</strong> – Added to sidebar, deleted from sidebar, order widgets</li>
<li><strong>Setting</strong> – General, writing, reading, discussion, media, permalinks</li>
<li><strong>Options</strong> – Extended custom settings for 3rd party plugins</li>
<li><strong>Export</strong> – Exported activity log file</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce</strong> – Track products, orders, customers, and more</li>
<li><strong>bbPress</strong> – Forums, topics, replies, taxonomies, and other actions</li>
<li><strong>Emails sent from WordPress site</strong> – Sending successful, sending failed</li>
<li>There’s more, of course, but you get the point…</li>
</ul>
<p>For each event recorded by the activity log, the following details are also logged:</p>
<ul>
<li>Date and time of occurrence</li>
<li>User and user role responsible for the change</li>
<li>Source IP address from which the change originated</li>
<li>Affected object where the change occurred</li>
</ul>
<p>The plugin doesn\’t require any kind of setup; it works right out of the box (just another reason people love it)!</p>
<h3>Data Storage and Performance Optimization</h3>
<p>In order to ensure optimal performance of your website, all events and logs data are stored in a dedicated custom table within your WordPress database. This approach significantly reduces the impact on your website’s performance, ensuring seamless operation even during peak traffic periods.</p>
<h3>Uninstall Clean-up</h3>
<p>We understand the importance of maintaining a clean and efficient database environment. That’s why our plugin features an uninstall hook that seamlessly removes all traces of its presence from your website when uninstalling. This meticulous clean-up process ensures that your database remains lean and clutter-free even after our plugin has been removed.</p>
<p><strong>With our optimized data storage, thorough logging, and meticulous clean-up process, you can trust that our plugin will enhance the functionality and security of your WordPress site without compromising its performance.</strong></p>
<h3>What users have to say</h3>
<ul>
<li><em>“Its tools, particularly for data privacy and GDPR compliance, make it indispensable for websites operating within European Union boundaries or dealing with EU citizens’ data”</em> – <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/website/8-best-plugins-tracking-user-activity-wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">HubSpot.com</a></li>
<li><em>“If you’re after a competent WP security audit log plugin with all the basic features you need, Activity Log is it!”</em> – <a href="https://wpastra.com/plugins/wordpress-activity-log-plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPAstra.com</a></li>
<li><em>“Activity Log features a remarkably straightforward dashboard interface, providing administrators with an at-a-glance understanding of site interactions”</em> – <a href="https://www.malcare.com/blog/wordpress-activity-log/" rel="nofollow ugc">Malcare.com</a></li>
<li><em>“Best 10 Free WordPress Plugins of the Month: Keeping tabs on what your users do with their access to the Dashboard”</em> – <a href="https://managewp.com/best-free-wordpress-plugins-july-2014" rel="nofollow ugc">ManageWP.com</a></li>
<li><em>“Thanks to this step, we’ve discovered that our site was undergoing a brute force attack”</em> – <a href="https://artdriver.com/blog/wordpress-site-hacked-solution-time" rel="nofollow ugc">Artdriver.com</a></li>
<li><em>“Optimized code – The plugin itself is blazing fast and leaves almost no footprint on the server”</em> – <a href="https://www.freshtechtips.com/2014/01/best-audit-trail-plugins-for-wordpress.html" rel="nofollow ugc">FreshTechTips.com</a></li>
<li><em>“Activity Log lets you track a huge range of activities. Overall, very easy to use and setup”</em> – <a href="https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/5-best-ways-to-monitor-wordpress-activity-via-the-dashboard" rel="nofollow ugc">ElegantThemes.com</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Contributions:</h3>
<p><strong>Would you like to contribute to this plugin?</strong> You’re more than welcome to submit your pull requests on the <a href="https://github.com/pojome/activity-log" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repo</a>. And, if you have any notes about the code, please open a ticket on the issue tracker.</p>


Activity Log – Monitor & Record User Changes

if i open notification settings of this plugin i get 

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errors

I want to thank the developer for this plugin which I find very useful and well done. thanks for the work.

Very helpful

Love it! Have it installed on about ~300 sites, no issues except one site that was getting slammed with spam login attempts and the log grew to big to quick but ultimately this plugin helped identify the need to restrict the login url.  

Simple & Lightweight

WP Plugin guidelines state that plugins should not create a top level navigation element in /wp-admin if it's not necessary.

That and the ad for Elementor made for an instant uninstall for me.

Instantly showing ads and top level nav

This top rated Activity Log plugin helps you monitor & log all changes and actions on your WordPress site, so you can remain secure and organized.

wpazleen

Sabbir Sam

sambyte

wpxpertise

Function Deck

<p>Activity Guard is a free WordPress plugin that covers four things most plugins charge separately for: a complete activity log, an IP-based security firewall, a plugin vulnerability scanner, and WooCommerce abandoned cart analytics. Alerts go out in real time to Slack, Telegram, or email.</p>
<p>Most activity log plugins stop at logging. Most security plugins don’t touch WooCommerce. Activity Guard does all of it in one dashboard, so you’re not juggling four separate plugins or paying for features that should come standard.</p>
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<p><a href="https://wpazleen.com/notifier-to-slack/" rel="nofollow ugc">Activity Guard Website</a> | <a href="https://wpazleen.com/docs/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a> | <a href="https://wpazleen.com/support/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Support</a></p>
<h3>What Makes Activity Guard Different</h3>
<p>Other free activity log plugins make you upgrade for Slack alerts, security scanning, or WooCommerce tracking. Activity Guard ships all of it for free, including Telegram notifications, IP firewall with emergency session shutdown, plugin CVE scanning, and WooCommerce incomplete-order analytics.</p>
<p>No other free plugin on WordPress.org combines these four in one place:</p>
<ul>
<li>Complete activity log with charts and visual summaries</li>
<li>IP firewall with manual blocking, CIDR ranges, and conditional rules</li>
<li>Plugin vulnerability scanner cross-referencing NVD, WPVulnerability.net, and the WPAzleen private API</li>
<li>WooCommerce analytics including abandoned cart recovery rate tracking</li>
</ul>
<h3>WordPress Activity Log</h3>
<p>Activity Guard records every meaningful change on your site, including the IP address, username, timestamp, and the exact change made. The log covers:</p>
<ul>
<li>User logins, logouts, and failed login attempts</li>
<li>User registrations, role changes, and profile edits</li>
<li>Pages, posts, and custom post types: create, edit, delete, status changes</li>
<li>Plugin and theme activations, deactivations, updates, and deletions</li>
<li>WordPress core settings and configuration changes</li>
<li>Menu, widget, and sidebar modifications</li>
<li>Email delivery tracking (email log)</li>
<li>Form submissions from Contact Form 7, SimpleForm, and others</li>
<li>Admin settings changes and debug log events</li>
<li>Cron job scheduling and background process tracking</li>
<li>Script modification and file change detection</li>
<li>Visitor traffic monitoring with an on/off toggle</li>
</ul>
<p>Visual charts summarize your audit log at a glance. No need to scroll through raw log tables to understand what’s happening on your site.</p>
<h3>Security Firewall and IP Blocking</h3>
<p>Activity Guard actively blocks threats rather than just recording them after the fact.</p>
<ul>
<li>IP blocking by manual entry, CIDR range, or conditional rule</li>
<li>Emergency shutdown: force-logout every active session on your site with one click</li>
<li>Cloudflare Turnstile login protection against bots and brute force attacks</li>
<li>Login rate limiting to stop credential-stuffing</li>
<li>Bot detection and automatic IP blocking</li>
<li>Restrict or fully disable XML-RPC access</li>
<li>Core file integrity scanner to detect unauthorized file changes</li>
<li>File integrity monitoring across plugins and themes</li>
<li>Block TOR network access</li>
<li>Block vulnerability scanner user agents</li>
<li>HTTP security headers: custom, logged, and enforced</li>
<li>WordPress version hiding</li>
<li>404 error tracking and suspicious HTTP request alerts</li>
<li>Admin dashboard visitor tracking</li>
<li>Cron job failure and site downtime monitoring</li>
</ul>
<p>The Emergency Shutdown feature is specific to Activity Guard: one click and every logged-in session on your site ends immediately. Useful when you detect a breach in progress and need everyone out now.</p>
<h3>Plugin Vulnerability Scanner</h3>
<p>Activity Guard scans every installed plugin and theme against multiple vulnerability databases before problems develop:</p>
<ul>
<li>Detect plugins with known CVEs across NVD, WPVulnerability.net, and the WPAzleen private API</li>
<li>Flag outdated plugins not compatible with your WordPress version</li>
<li>Identify abandoned plugins (not updated in over a year)</li>
<li>Warn about plugins with low install counts or poor ratings</li>
</ul>
<p>No other free activity log plugin on WordPress.org includes a built-in multi-database vulnerability scanner.</p>
<h3>WooCommerce Activity Log and Analytics</h3>
<p>Activity Guard logs every WooCommerce event and adds analytics built specifically for store owners.</p>
<p>Order tracking covers status changes, payments, refunds, and cancellations. You also get stock level changes and low-stock events, coupon creation and usage, product pricing edits, billing and shipping address updates, customer registration changes, and real-time shipping status updates.</p>
<p>The abandoned cart and incomplete-order analytics go further than basic logging. The dashboard shows checkout drop-off rates, recovery potential, recovery rate, and how customers interact with their carts before leaving. This helps you understand where revenue is being lost, not just that it was lost.</p>
<p>WooCommerce abandoned cart analytics with recovery rate tracking is included free. No competing free activity log plugin on WordPress.org provides this.</p>
<h3>Slack and Telegram Notifications</h3>
<p>Activity Guard sends alerts the moment a critical event occurs, across four channels:</p>
<ul>
<li>Slack: route alerts to any channel, tag specific users or groups with @mentions</li>
<li>Telegram: real-time activity and security alerts direct to your Telegram chat</li>
<li>Email: configurable per event type</li>
<li>Admin dashboard: in-panel notification view</li>
</ul>
<p>Events that trigger alerts include core file changes, plugin and theme updates (with the username that triggered the update), WooCommerce orders, payments, coupon usage, incomplete order follow-ups, product edits, stock changes, login and registration events, page and post changes, form submissions, and admin settings changes. A daily digest and weekly plugin download summary are also available.</p>
<p>You can schedule notifications for specific times and control exactly which events send alerts.</p>
<h3>Admin and Developer Tools</h3>
<ul>
<li>Maintenance mode toggle from the dashboard</li>
<li>Menu and widget change tracking</li>
<li>Plugin and theme activation and deactivation logs</li>
<li>Script modification detection</li>
<li>HTTP security header change logging</li>
<li>Debug log and fatal error detection</li>
<li>Email log: full delivery history for all outgoing WordPress emails</li>
<li>Contact Form 7 and SimpleForm integration alerts</li>
</ul>
<h3>Who Uses Activity Guard</h3>
<p>WooCommerce store owners use it to track every order, coupon, product change, and shipping event, and to recover revenue with abandoned cart analytics. Site administrators use it to know exactly who changed what, instantly log out suspicious users, and maintain a clean audit trail. Agencies and developers use it to monitor plugin updates, configuration changes, fatal errors, and debug logs across client sites. Security-focused admins use it to block IPs, scan for CVEs, monitor file integrity, and trigger emergency shutdowns. Multi-author sites use it to hold contributors accountable with full user activity logging and role-change tracking.</p>
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<h3>External Services</h3>
<h4>Slack Webhook Integration</h4>
<p>Activity Guard sends notifications to your Slack workspace using a Slack incoming webhook URL that you provide. To set one up:</p>
<ol>
<li>Create a Slack app or use an existing one</li>
<li>Enable Incoming Webhooks in the app settings</li>
<li>Add a webhook to your workspace</li>
<li>Paste the webhook URL into Activity Guard settings</li>
</ol>
<h4>Cloudflare Turnstile</h4>
<p>Activity Guard uses <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/turnstile/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cloudflare Turnstile</a> for login bot protection. See Cloudflare’s <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/turnstile/" rel="nofollow ugc">privacy policy</a> for details.</p>
<h4>Plugin Vulnerability Scanner – Data Sources</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress.org Plugin API: retrieves plugin metadata including latest version, last updated date, rating, and active install count. <a href="https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/" rel="ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li>WPAzleen API: private endpoint for known vulnerabilities by plugin and version. No sensitive data is transmitted. <a href="https://wpazleen.com/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li>WPVulnerability.net: public API for CVE-based vulnerability data. <a href="https://www.wpvulnerability.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li>National Vulnerability Database (NVD): official CVE data from NIST. <a href="https://www.nist.gov/oism/site-privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
<p>All scans run locally using public metadata and vulnerability feeds. Activity Guard does not collect, store, or transmit any personal information during scans.</p>
<h4>Freemius</h4>
<p>Activity Guard uses the <a href="https://freemius.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Freemius</a> SDK for optional telemetry. No data is collected by default. Data collection only starts after you explicitly confirm in the admin notice. See the <a href="https://freemius.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Freemius FAQ</a> for details.</p>
<h4>WPAzleen Settings API</h4>
<p>Loads display settings for the Pro upgrade modal in the plugin admin area.</p>
<p><a href="https://wpazleen.com/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPAzleen Privacy Policy</a></p>
<h3>Source Code</h3>
<p>The source files for all compiled/minified JavaScript and CSS in this plugin are publicly available at:</p>
<p>https://github.com/wpazleen/activity-guard</p>
<p>Build instructions:</p>
<ol>
<li>Clone the repository or direct visit the src directory.</li>
<li>Run <code>npm install</code> in the root to install dependencies.</li>
<li>Run <code>npm run build</code> to compile the JavaScript and CSS assets.</li>
<li>The compiled files are output to <code>build/</code>.</li>
</ol>


Activity Guard – Security Scanner, Activity Log with IP blocking


Excellent plugin and easy to setup thanks for the video.


Original idea and super useful plugin!

WordPress activity log with IP blocking, plugin vulnerability scanner, WooCommerce abandoned cart analytics, and free Slack and Telegram alerts.

Activity Log – Monitor & Record User Changes vs Activity Guard – Security Scanner, Activity Log with IP blocking