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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?
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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>
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Perfect For
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<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>
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<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.

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:
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<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:
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<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>
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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.

InkaTrace for Activity & Audit Log vs LogDash Activity Log