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.

Krishna Kant Chourasiya

Ram Ratan Maurya

<p>Stalkfish is a no setup plugin that will monitor and log all the site activity, error and crashes without bloating your database. All the errors and activity logs are stored in your Stalfish account, and can be accessed via the Stalkfish dashboard without compromising your site privacy.</p>
<p>Unlike alternative plugins, Stalkfish does not require any configuration, and is compatible with most recent WordPress versions. We provide a dedicated monitoring system for your site, and a dashboard to view and manage activity for all your WordPress sites, in once place.</p>
<h3>Why use an activity logging and monitoring plugin?</h3>
<p>Don’t you hate it when you have no clue when something on your site changed, and you have no idea why? Stalkfish helps you keep track of all your site activity, and you can see what’s going on in a single place. This helps you locate when a particular action was performed on your site.</p>
<h3>Benefits of Stalkfish</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Track any activity:</strong> Stalkfish will monitor all the activities on your site, and log it to Stalkfish server with contextual data that will help you locate what has changed.</li>
<li><strong>Track errors:</strong> Stalkfish would automatically track all errors on your site and alert you as needed.</li>
<li><strong>Share event data:</strong> Easily creating public links that can be shared with others. You may set a range of expiry dates for the link, and the link will be automatically deleted after the expiry date.</li>
<li><strong>Get alerts for important events:</strong> Create contextual alerts and get notified when something specific happens on your site.</li>
<li><strong>Unlimited sites:</strong> Stalkfish gives you unlimited sites to monitor in a decent dedicated dashboard.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Get Started with Stalkfish</h3>
<p><a href="https://stalkfish.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Stalkfish</a> is a SaaS product, and we offer a free plan for personal use. You can record upto 500 events per month for free, ideal if you’re trying the plugin or using it on small sites and still feel secure.</p>
<h3>What activities are tracked?</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Posts, Pages and Custom Post Types</strong> – Log all the activities/events associated including metadata and custom fields</li>
<li><strong>Taxonomies</strong> – Log any and all changes from creation to attachment in posts and CPTs.</li>
<li><strong>Comments</strong> – Log all the comment updates from status changes to spamming.</li>
<li><strong>Users</strong> – Log all user logins to any profile changes.</li>
<li><strong>Media & Library</strong> – Log all the media uploads to attachment in posts and CPTs.</li>
<li><strong>Settings</strong> – Log all setting updates from general to privacy.</li>
<li><strong>Customizer</strong> – Log any and all WordPress Customizer changes including theme modifications.</li>
<li><strong>Plugins and Themes</strong> – Log all theme and plugin installations to uninstalls.</li>
<li><strong>Widgets</strong> – Log any and all sidebar changes to widget updates.</li>
<li><strong>Classic Editor and Block (Gutenberg) Editor</strong> – Log all the editor updates from post creation to deletion.</li>
<li><strong>WordPress Core Updates</strong> – Log WordPress core updates from manual to auto.</li>
<li><strong>Multisite</strong> (Coming Soon) – Log network wide site updates from adding them to removal.</li>
</ul>
<p>That’s not it! We’re working around the clock to improve your experience and add more useful activity logging.</p>
<h4>Privacy</h4>
<p>Stalkfish is a SaaS (software as a service) connector plugin that uses a custom API to log all the site activity. We only store event data on Stalkfish server which do not include any sensitive data, and we do not share your data with anyone. We do record user’s IP who performs an activity to give you a better insight of action’s origin. Respecting your privacy is our top-most priority.</p>


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