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InkaTrace for Activity & Audit Log is a practical and lightweight WordPress activity monitoring plugin built for administrators, site managers, developers, agencies, schools, organizations, and businesses that need clear visibility into what is happening inside a WordPress site.
Whether you need a simple activity log for daily monitoring or a more structured audit trail for security review, content oversight, and operational accountability, InkaTrace helps you monitor important user actions, login activity, and system-related changes from one centralized admin interface.
InkaTrace is designed to provide a focused audit workflow without unnecessary complexity. The free edition covers essential monitoring and investigation needs, while the Pro edition expands the workflow with deeper compliance, reporting, export, and retention capabilities.
Free Activity Log Features
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Activity Log Table 
Review WordPress activity in a centralized log table with filters, search, and saved presets for faster daily review.
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Incident Notes 
Add internal notes and basic incident status directly inside log detail so your team can keep investigation context in one place.
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Dashboard Activity Widget 
Monitor recent site activity directly from the WordPress dashboard.
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Failed Login Monitoring 
Track failed login attempts with warning and security-focused severity labels for faster awareness of suspicious patterns.
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Optional Auto-Purge Controls 
Set log retention preferences to help keep the activity database manageable over time.
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Optional IP Geolocation Consent 
Enrich public IP information from the admin area only when explicit consent is enabled.
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Simple Access Control 
Administrators always have access, with an optional editor-view setting for teams that need limited visibility.
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Lightweight Admin Workflow 
Use a focused interface built for practical audit review without overloading the dashboard.
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Pro Edition Expands the Workflow With
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<li>Compliance reports for summary-based audit review.</li>
<li>Forensic timeline for deeper investigation by date, user, IP, and event flow.</li>
<li>Extended retention, archive, and restore workflow for long-term audit history.</li>
<li>More advanced export and investigation workflow for teams that need deeper review.</li>
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Why Choose InkaTrace?
<ul>
<li>Focused and practical for day-to-day WordPress monitoring.</li>
<li>Security-aware workflow for suspicious login and activity review.</li>
<li>Designed for real admin use with filtering, notes, and investigation support.</li>
<li>Flexible enough to start lightweight and grow into deeper audit workflow with Pro.</li>
</ul>
Perfect For
<ul>
<li>Site administrators who need visibility into user and system activity.</li>
<li>Agencies managing client WordPress sites.</li>
<li>Schools and organizations that need accountability logs.</li>
<li>Businesses that want a simple audit trail for WordPress operations.</li>
<li>Teams that need login monitoring and investigation notes without an overly complex system.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
This plugin stores activity log records locally in your WordPress database.
For security auditing purposes, log entries can include: 
* User account information related to the action. 
* IP addresses. 
* User agent / device strings. 
* Log content describing the recorded action.
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin can call external IP geolocation services when an administrator enables IP geolocation consent in Settings and then opens IP details in the Activity Log.
Services used: 
* <code>https://ipapi.co/</code> 
* <code>https://ipwho.is/</code>
Data sent: 
* The visitor IP address stored in the activity log.
Purpose: 
* To display geographic/network context for audit and security investigation.
These requests are optional, only triggered from the admin UI, and never run on front-end page loads.
This plugin also includes an optional support contact form in the admin settings page.
Data sent when an administrator uses the support form: 
* The message subject entered by the user. 
* The message body entered by the user. 
* The optional email address entered by the user. 
* The site URL. 
* The installed plugin version.
Recipient: 
* <code>pt.inkamediautama@gmail.com</code>
Purpose: 
* To receive support requests, bug reports, feature requests, and product feedback initiated by the site administrator.
This request is only sent when the administrator manually submits the support form.

InkaTrace for Activity & Audit Log

Audit and monitor key WordPress activities across users, content, login activity, and system events in one admin log.

Piyush Asthana

ActivityPilot is an activity log and audit-trail plugin for developers, agencies, and security-conscious site owners. Meaningful changes on your site — logins, content edits, plugin and theme operations, role changes, high-impact options, integrations, and more — are stored in a dedicated database table and shown in a modern admin timeline.
<h4>Privacy defaults</h4>
<ul>
<li>External-service features are opt-in.</li>
<li>Geolocation (<code>ip-api.com</code>) is disabled by default (<code>enable_geo = 0</code>).</li>
<li>Outbound webhooks (Slack/Discord/Teams/custom URL) are disabled by default until you enable them and provide destination URLs.</li>
<li>The plugin does not send data to third-party services unless you explicitly enable and configure those features.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Why use this plugin?</h4>
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<li>Custom tables — logs live in <code>{prefix}apwpm_activity_logs</code> (not post meta) with indexes for fast queries.</li>
<li>Modern admin UI — dashboard, timeline, filters, search, pagination, exports, dark mode, and keyboard shortcuts.</li>
<li>Security-first — capability checks, REST nonces, prepared SQL, output escaping, and optional sudo mode for destructive actions.</li>
<li>Break detection — spots error spikes and surfaces recent risky changes.</li>
<li>Extensible — REST API (<code>activitypilot/v1</code>), hooks, custom event registry, and PSR-3 adapter.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Core features</h4>
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<li>Activity logging for logins, posts, plugins, themes, users, roles, and important site options</li>
<li>Timeline view with avatars, severity colors, and structured context</li>
<li>Filters by user, action, object type, severity, date range, status, assignee, and search</li>
<li>CSV and JSON exports; daily retention pruning via cron</li>
<li>Email alerts when break detection finds unusual error activity</li>
<li>Workflow: acknowledge, resolve, snooze, assign, and comment on events</li>
<li>Smart insights: bursts, off-hours access, role escalation, and statistical spikes</li>
<li>Optional rollback for supported change types (sudo-gated)</li>
<li>Analytics heatmap, hour-of-day chart, and top users</li>
<li>Scheduled HTML digest reports (daily, weekly, monthly)</li>
<li>Multisite support with per-site tagging and network overview</li>
<li>Hash-chain integrity verification (optional)</li>
<li>File integrity monitoring, IP throttle, PII redaction, GDPR export/erase helpers</li>
<li>Integrations: WooCommerce, ACF, popular form builders, SEO plugins, page builders</li>
<li>Optional outbound webhooks (Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, generic URL)</li>
<li>WP-CLI: <code>wp apwpm list|count|verify|prune|purge|export|digest|scan-files</code></li>
</ul>
<h4>For developers</h4>
Log custom events from your code:
<pre><code>APWPM_Logger::log( array( 'action_type' => 'my_event', 'description' => 'Something happened' ) );
</code></pre>
Filter hooks include <code>apwpm_skip_log</code>, <code>apwpm_pre_insert_row</code>, and <code>apwpm_register_event_types</code>. The shorter <code>ap_*</code> hook names from earlier builds are still fired for backward compatibility.
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin can connect to third-party services only when you enable the related feature and, for webhooks, when you provide URLs.
<h4>IP geolocation (optional)</h4>
When Enable geolocation is on, the plugin may send the visitor IP address to <a href="http://ip-api.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">ip-api.com</a> to resolve country and city. No API key is required. Results are cached in WordPress transients (about 24 hours). See the <a href="https://ip-api.com/docs/legal" rel="nofollow ugc">ip-api privacy policy</a> for their terms.
<ul>
<li>Data sent: IP address (in the request URL).</li>
<li>When: On log insert for events that include an IP, if geo is enabled and not already set.</li>
<li>Purpose: Display country/city on timeline rows and detect logins from new countries.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Outbound webhooks (optional)</h4>
When webhooks are enabled and URLs are saved in settings, the plugin sends HTTP POST requests to your endpoints (for example Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, or a custom URL) when qualifying events occur.
<ul>
<li>Data sent: Event title, description, severity, site name, and related metadata you configure to receive.</li>
<li>When: After an event is logged that meets your minimum severity threshold.</li>
<li>Purpose: Notify external chat or monitoring systems.</li>
<li>Services/endpoints: Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, or any custom HTTPS endpoint that you explicitly configure.</li>
<li>Terms/privacy (when using those services): 
Slack: https://slack.com/terms-of-service , https://slack.com/privacy-policy 
Discord: https://discord.com/terms , https://discord.com/privacy 
Microsoft Teams (Microsoft): https://www.microsoft.com/servicesagreement , https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement</li>
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Webhook delivery is fully optional and disabled by default. No webhook requests are sent until you enable webhooks and provide at least one destination URL.
The plugin does not include bundled third-party API keys. Geolocation and webhooks are optional and disabled by default until configured by a site administrator.

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