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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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</ul>
Pro Edition Expands the Workflow With
<ul>
<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>
</ul>
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.

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<h4>Adminify Activity Logs: Free WordPress User Activity Log</h4>
Adminify Activity Logs records every change made inside the WordPress dashboard. Who did what, when, and from which IP. Built for site owners and agencies who want a clean audit trail without paying for a premium tier or installing a heavy security suite. Everything in this readme is in the free plugin. No locked filters, no upsell modal, no nag screens.
➡️ <a href="https://wpadminify.com/activity-logs?&utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=adminify-activity-logs" rel="nofollow ugc">Explore More</a> | 📖 <a href="https://wpadminify.com/docs/activity-logs/al-installation?utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=adminify-activity-logs" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a> | 💬 <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/adminify-activity-logs/" rel="ugc">Support</a>
Why run a WordPress activity log
If you don’t know who deactivated that plugin or deleted that post, you can’t tell a mistake from a security incident. Activity logs answer who-did-what-when. Any WordPress site with more than one person in the dashboard eventually needs one. Agency builds, membership sites, and multi-author blogs all run into the same problem: someone made a change, nobody owns up, and you spend an afternoon working out what happened. An audit trail saves that afternoon.
<h4>What Adminify Activity Logs does that the others don’t</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wpadminify.com/activity-logs?utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=adminify-activity-logs" rel="nofollow ugc">Free with no Pro tier upsell</a>: Every filter, every retention setting, and every detail view ships in the free plugin. Other activity log plugins lock IP tracking or longer retention behind a paid plan.</li>
<li><a href="https://wpadminify.com/activity-logs?utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=adminify-activity-logs" rel="nofollow ugc">Real-time logging</a>: Activities appear in the log as soon as they happen. No cron, no batch delay.</li>
<li><a href="https://wpadminify.com/activity-logs?utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=adminify-activity-logs" rel="nofollow ugc">IP address tracking</a>: Each entry records the source IP. Useful when you’re investigating a login or a change you didn’t expect.</li>
<li><a href="https://wpadminify.com/activity-logs?utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=adminify-activity-logs" rel="nofollow ugc">Time, role, user, component, and action filters</a>: Narrow the log by time frame (today, yesterday, week, month), user role, specific user, WordPress component (Post, Plugin, Theme, etc.), or action type (Updated, Deleted, Activated).</li>
<li><a href="https://wpadminify.com/activity-logs?utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=adminify-activity-logs" rel="nofollow ugc">Configurable retention</a>: Default is 30 days. Bump it up if you need a longer compliance window. Bring it down if database size is tight.</li>
<li><a href="https://wpadminify.com/activity-logs?utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=adminify-activity-logs" rel="nofollow ugc">Searchable records</a>: Find a specific change by user, action, or keyword without scrolling.</li>
<li><a href="https://wpadminify.com/activity-logs?utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=adminify-activity-logs" rel="nofollow ugc">Multisite compatible</a>: Works across WordPress network installations.</li>
<li><a href="https://wpadminify.com/activity-logs?utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=adminify-activity-logs" rel="nofollow ugc">Built by Pixar Labs</a>: Same team that ships WP Adminify, Admin Bar Editor, Master Addons, and Loginfy.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Detailed Feature Breakdown</h4>
What gets logged for every entry
<ul>
<li>Date: Timestamp when the action happened.</li>
<li>Author: Username of the person who did it.</li>
<li>IP Address: Source IP for location tracking.</li>
<li>Type: Category of the action (post update, plugin installation, etc.).</li>
<li>Label: Short description of the activity.</li>
<li>Action: Specific operation (edited, deleted, added, etc.).</li>
<li>Description: Detailed explanation of the activity.</li>
<li>Delete control: Remove individual log entries with one click.</li>
</ul>
Time-frame filters
<ul>
<li>All time</li>
<li>Today</li>
<li>Yesterday</li>
<li>Week</li>
<li>Month</li>
</ul>
Role-based filters
View activities by user role: Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor, Subscriber, Customer, Shop Manager, Guest, plus any custom roles registered on the site.
User filters
<ul>
<li>All users</li>
<li>Specific users (select individual users to track)</li>
</ul>
Component filters
Track activities tied to specific WordPress components:
<ul>
<li>Attachments</li>
<li>Comments</li>
<li>Options</li>
<li>Plugin</li>
<li>Post</li>
<li>Taxonomy</li>
<li>Theme</li>
<li>User</li>
</ul>
Action types tracked
<ul>
<li>Activated</li>
<li>Added</li>
<li>Approved</li>
<li>Created</li>
<li>Deactivated</li>
<li>Deleted</li>
<li>Installed</li>
<li>Trashed</li>
<li>Unapproved</li>
<li>Updated</li>
</ul>
Configuration options
<ul>
<li>Data Retention: Adjust the “Data Store for” value (default 30 days).</li>
<li>Search & Filter: Filter logs by user, action, or keyword via the search bar.</li>
</ul>
Common use cases
<ul>
<li>Security investigation: Spot unauthorized access attempts and unusual activity.</li>
<li>Accountability: Know who did what and when across the site.</li>
<li>Troubleshooting: Trace recent changes when something breaks.</li>
<li>Compliance: Keep an audit trail for regulatory requirements (GDPR, HIPAA, internal policy).</li>
<li>Team transparency: Track contributions across multi-author sites.</li>
<li>Disaster recovery: See what changed in the hours before a problem occurred.</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://wpadminify.com/activity-logs?utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=adminify-activity-logs" rel="nofollow ugc">⚡ Upgrade to Adminify Pro</a> to get the full Adminify Pro suite. 60+ admin customization features beyond activity logging: white labeling, menu editor, dashboard widgets, login customizer.

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Track every change in your WordPress dashboard. Free user activity log with role, time, component, and action filters. No setup, no paid tier.

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