Jaroslav Svetlik

Bat Activity Log helps site owners and administrators understand what changed, who changed it, and when it happened.
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.
<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>
Bat Activity Log currently covers:
<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>
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.
<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.

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.

Bat Activity Log vs LogDash Activity Log