Jaroslav Svetlik

<p>Bat Activity Log helps site owners and administrators understand what changed, who changed it, and when it happened.</p>
<p>The plugin records activity across users, content, media, comments, plugins, themes, settings, updates, privacy workflows, and other core WordPress operations. Logs are stored in a custom indexed table for fast filtering and large datasets.</p>
<h4>Key features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Track logins, logouts, failed logins, profile changes, registrations, role changes, and password updates.</li>
<li>Record post, page, media, comment, taxonomy, menu, widget, and settings activity.</li>
<li>Monitor plugin, theme, and WordPress update activity.</li>
<li>Filter logs by event type, action, severity, user, object, IP address, and date range.</li>
<li>Use saved views, quick filters, bulk actions, CSV export, and a structured log detail drawer.</li>
<li>Configure retention cleanup, privacy controls, alert rules, and scheduled reports.</li>
<li>Verify log integrity with a tamper-evident hash chain.</li>
<li>Use WP-CLI commands for stats, cleanup, export, repair, reporting, benchmarking, and integrity verification.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Event coverage</h4>
<p>Bat Activity Log currently covers:</p>
<ul>
<li>User authentication and account events</li>
<li>Content and revision events</li>
<li>Media library activity</li>
<li>Comment activity</li>
<li>Plugin and theme lifecycle events</li>
<li>Core, update, and database upgrade events</li>
<li>Settings, widget, permalink, and menu changes</li>
<li>Privacy request and erasure workflow events</li>
<li>File editor changes</li>
<li>WooCommerce events when WooCommerce is active</li>
<li>Supported form submission events for Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, WPForms, and Elementor Pro Forms</li>
</ul>
<h4>Integrity and privacy</h4>
<p>Each log row includes integrity metadata that can be verified from the Tools screen or WP-CLI. Privacy controls include IP logging toggles, optional IP anonymization, user-agent logging controls, and WordPress personal data exporter and eraser integration.</p>
<h4>WP-CLI examples</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>wp bat-activity-log stats</code></li>
<li><code>wp bat-activity-log cleanup --days=90 --batch-size=2000</code></li>
<li><code>wp bat-activity-log export --file=/tmp/activity-log.csv</code></li>
<li><code>wp bat-activity-log repair</code></li>
<li><code>wp bat-activity-log verify-integrity</code></li>
<li><code>wp bat-activity-log report --days=7 --format=text</code></li>
<li><code>wp bat-activity-log benchmark --iterations=10 --per-page=100</code></li>
</ul>


Bat Activity Log

Track important WordPress activity with detailed audit logs, filters, alerts, reports, and integrity checks.

dmytrokovalenko

<p>Kovalenko Admin Change Audit helps site owners keep an audit trail of important administrative activity in a dedicated owner-only log viewer.</p>
<p>Features include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Login and logout activity logging</li>
<li>Post creation, updates, trash actions, and permanent deletions</li>
<li>Plugin activation, deactivation, and deletion logging</li>
<li>Owner-only log viewer under the Tools menu</li>
<li>Live refresh, filters, sorting, and pagination</li>
<li>Optional second password layer before logs are shown</li>
<li>Configurable timezone with America/Edmonton as the default</li>
<li>Automatic cleanup of expired logs</li>
</ul>
<p>The plugin does not require an external account or third-party service to function.</p>


Kovalenko Admin Change Audit

Records important WordPress activity and provides an owner-only log viewer for monitoring client changes.

Bat Activity Log vs Kovalenko Admin Change Audit