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.

liaison

<p><strong>A lightweight and easy-to-use plugin to secure and monitor your WordPress website.</strong></p>
<p>Have you ever wondered when your website changed — and who did it?<br />
Liaison Site Prober makes it easy to track your WordPress site’s change history and user activities.</p>
<p>With Liaison Site Prober, you can easily monitor:</p>
<ul>
<li>Who logged in, logged out, or attempted (and failed) to log in.  </li>
<li>When a post was published or updated — and by whom.  </li>
<li>When a plugin or theme was activated, deactivated, or modified.  </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Export to CSV</strong> — Quickly export your website’s activity log for auditing or backup purposes.</p>
<p>The plugin tracks:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Posts</strong> – Created, updated, deleted  </li>
<li><strong>Categories</strong> – Created, updated, deleted  </li>
<li><strong>Taxonomies</strong> – Created, updated, deleted  </li>
<li><strong>Comments</strong> – Created, approved, unapproved, trashed, untrashed, spammed, unspammed, deleted  </li>
<li><strong>Users</strong> – Login, logout, failed login, profile updated, registered, deleted  </li>
<li><strong>Plugins</strong> – Installed, updated, activated, deactivated, modified  </li>
<li><strong>Themes</strong> – Installed, updated, deleted, activated, modified (via Editor or Customizer)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Data Storage Isolation</h3>
<p>To keep your WordPress database clean and easy to back up,<br />
all log data is stored in a dedicated custom table, fully isolated from your site’s core content.</p>


Liaison Site Prober

Liaison Site Prober helps you log and track key changes and user actions on your WordPress website — giving you better visibility and security.

Bat Activity Log vs Liaison Site Prober