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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>
</ul>
Why Choose InkaTrace?
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<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.

ArielK

Elementor

pojo.me

Yakir Sitbon

Maor Chasen

AN EASY TO USE & FULLY SUPPORTED WORDPRESS ACTIVITY LOG PLUGIN
Want to monitor and track your WordPress website activity? Find out exactly who does what on your WordPress website with this plugin. Activity Log is like an airplane’s black box that logs every action in the WordPress admin, and lets you see exactly what users are doing on your WordPress website.
<ul>
<li>If someone is trying to hack your site</li>
<li>When a post was published, and who published it</li>
<li>If a plugin/theme was activated/deactivated</li>
<li>Suspicious admin activity</li>
</ul>
It’s so essential; you’ll wonder how you ever managed your website without it. The plugin is also lightning fast and works behind the scenes, so it doesn\’t affect site and admin performance. For optimal performance, we built the plugin so that it runs on a separate table in the database.
If you have more than a handful of users, keeping track of who did what is virtually impossible. This plugin solves that issue by tracking what actions were initiated by which users, and displaying it in an easy-to-use and easy-to-filter view on the dashboard of your WordPress site.
New! Introducing Email Logging – Capture all emails sent from your WordPress site for streamlined debugging and compliance. Gain better visibility into email communication, aiding both troubleshooting and record-keeping. This is particularly beneficial for WooCommerce stores, allowing you to easily track sent emails alongside other critical site events.
Export to CSV – Export your Activity Log data records to CSV. Developers can easily add support for custom data formats with our new dedicated Export API.
Data Privacy and GDPR Compliance – We provide the tools to help you adhere to GDPR compliance standards, including Export/Erasure of data via the WordPress Privacy Tools.
<h3>With the Activity Log you can record:</h3>
<ul>
<li>WordPress – Core updates</li>
<li>Posts – Created, updated, deleted</li>
<li>Pages – Created, updated, deleted</li>
<li>Custom Post Type – Created, updated, deleted</li>
<li>Tags – Created, updated, deleted</li>
<li>Categories – Created, updated, deleted</li>
<li>Taxonomies – Created, updated, deleted</li>
<li>Menus – Created, updated, deleted</li>
<li>Media – Created, updated, deleted</li>
<li>Comments – Created, approved, unapproved, trashed, untrashed, spammed, unspammed, deleted</li>
<li>Users – Login, logout, login failed, update profile, registered, deleted</li>
<li>Plugins – Installed, updated, activated, deactivated, changed</li>
<li>Themes – Installed, updated, deleted, activated, changed (Editor and Customizer)</li>
<li>Widgets – Added to sidebar, deleted from sidebar, order widgets</li>
<li>Setting – General, writing, reading, discussion, media, permalinks</li>
<li>Options – Extended custom settings for 3rd party plugins</li>
<li>Export – Exported activity log file</li>
<li>WooCommerce – Track products, orders, customers, and more</li>
<li>bbPress – Forums, topics, replies, taxonomies, and other actions</li>
<li>Emails sent from WordPress site – Sending successful, sending failed</li>
<li>There’s more, of course, but you get the point…</li>
</ul>
For each event recorded by the activity log, the following details are also logged:
<ul>
<li>Date and time of occurrence</li>
<li>User and user role responsible for the change</li>
<li>Source IP address from which the change originated</li>
<li>Affected object where the change occurred</li>
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The plugin doesn\’t require any kind of setup; it works right out of the box (just another reason people love it)!
<h3>Data Storage and Performance Optimization</h3>
In order to ensure optimal performance of your website, all events and logs data are stored in a dedicated custom table within your WordPress database. This approach significantly reduces the impact on your website’s performance, ensuring seamless operation even during peak traffic periods.
<h3>Uninstall Clean-up</h3>
We understand the importance of maintaining a clean and efficient database environment. That’s why our plugin features an uninstall hook that seamlessly removes all traces of its presence from your website when uninstalling. This meticulous clean-up process ensures that your database remains lean and clutter-free even after our plugin has been removed.
With our optimized data storage, thorough logging, and meticulous clean-up process, you can trust that our plugin will enhance the functionality and security of your WordPress site without compromising its performance.
<h3>What users have to say</h3>
<ul>
<li>“Its tools, particularly for data privacy and GDPR compliance, make it indispensable for websites operating within European Union boundaries or dealing with EU citizens’ data” – <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/website/8-best-plugins-tracking-user-activity-wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">HubSpot.com</a></li>
<li>“If you’re after a competent WP security audit log plugin with all the basic features you need, Activity Log is it!” – <a href="https://wpastra.com/plugins/wordpress-activity-log-plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPAstra.com</a></li>
<li>“Activity Log features a remarkably straightforward dashboard interface, providing administrators with an at-a-glance understanding of site interactions” – <a href="https://www.malcare.com/blog/wordpress-activity-log/" rel="nofollow ugc">Malcare.com</a></li>
<li>“Best 10 Free WordPress Plugins of the Month: Keeping tabs on what your users do with their access to the Dashboard” – <a href="https://managewp.com/best-free-wordpress-plugins-july-2014" rel="nofollow ugc">ManageWP.com</a></li>
<li>“Thanks to this step, we’ve discovered that our site was undergoing a brute force attack” – <a href="https://artdriver.com/blog/wordpress-site-hacked-solution-time" rel="nofollow ugc">Artdriver.com</a></li>
<li>“Optimized code – The plugin itself is blazing fast and leaves almost no footprint on the server” – <a href="https://www.freshtechtips.com/2014/01/best-audit-trail-plugins-for-wordpress.html" rel="nofollow ugc">FreshTechTips.com</a></li>
<li>“Activity Log lets you track a huge range of activities. Overall, very easy to use and setup” – <a href="https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/5-best-ways-to-monitor-wordpress-activity-via-the-dashboard" rel="nofollow ugc">ElegantThemes.com</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Contributions:</h3>
Would you like to contribute to this plugin? You’re more than welcome to submit your pull requests on the <a href="https://github.com/pojome/activity-log" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repo</a>. And, if you have any notes about the code, please open a ticket on the issue tracker.

Activity Log – Monitor & Record User Changes

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I want to thank the developer for this plugin which I find very useful and well done. thanks for the work.

Very helpful

Love it! Have it installed on about ~300 sites, no issues except one site that was getting slammed with spam login attempts and the log grew to big to quick but ultimately this plugin helped identify the need to restrict the login url.  

Simple & Lightweight

WP Plugin guidelines state that plugins should not create a top level navigation element in /wp-admin if it's not necessary.

That and the ad for Elementor made for an instant uninstall for me.

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This top rated Activity Log plugin helps you monitor & log all changes and actions on your WordPress site, so you can remain secure and organized.

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