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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>
</ul>
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.

WPZOOM

User History tracks all changes made to user profiles and displays a complete history log on the user edit page. It also lets admins lock or unlock user accounts, change usernames, monitor login/logout activity, manage active sessions, and search for users by their previous details.
Profile Change Tracking:
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<li>Track Profile Changes – Automatically logs changes to username, email, display name, first/last name, nickname, website, bio, and role</li>
<li>Password Change Logging – Records when passwords are changed (without storing any password data)</li>
<li>See Who Made Changes – Each log entry shows whether the user changed their own profile or if an admin made the change</li>
<li>IP Address Tracking – Records the IP address for each change (can be disabled for GDPR compliance)</li>
<li>Search by Previous Values – Find users on the All Users page by their old email or username</li>
<li>Clear History – Admins can clear the history log for any user</li>
</ul>
Login & Session Monitoring:
<ul>
<li>Login/Logout Tracking – Records successful logins, logouts, and failed login attempts with date, IP address, and browser info</li>
<li>Failed Login Attempts – Track failed login attempts for existing user accounts</li>
<li>Active Sessions – View all active WordPress sessions for any user, including login time, IP address, browser, and expiry</li>
<li>Log Out Everywhere – Destroy all active sessions for a user with one click</li>
<li>Browser & OS Detection – Automatically detects and displays the browser and operating system from the user agent</li>
</ul>
Lock/Unlock User Accounts:
<ul>
<li>Lock User Accounts – Prevent users from logging in by locking their account</li>
<li>Instant Session Termination – Locked users are logged out immediately and all active sessions are destroyed</li>
<li>Application Password Blocking – Locked users cannot authenticate via application passwords (REST API, XML-RPC)</li>
<li>Status Column – See which users are locked at a glance with a status column on the All Users page</li>
<li>Bulk Lock/Unlock – Lock or unlock multiple users at once from the All Users page</li>
<li>Row Actions – Quickly lock or unlock individual users from the All Users list</li>
<li>Locked Users Filter – Filter the All Users list to show only locked accounts</li>
<li>Custom Lock Message – Set a custom message shown to locked users on the login screen (Settings > User History)</li>
<li>WP-CLI Access – Locked users can still be managed via WP-CLI</li>
</ul>
Admin Tools:
<ul>
<li>Change Username – Allows admins to change usernames directly from the user edit page (WordPress normally doesn’t allow this)</li>
<li>Delete User Button – Quick access button to delete a user directly from their profile page</li>
<li>Data Retention – Automatically delete old logs after a configurable number of days (default: 30 days)</li>
<li>Clear All Logs – Bulk delete all history logs for every user from the settings page</li>
</ul>
Privacy & Compliance:
<ul>
<li>IP Tracking Toggle – Enable or disable IP address recording for GDPR compliance (Settings > User History)</li>
<li>Configurable Retention – Set how long logs are kept (1-365+ days, or keep forever)</li>
<li>Automatic Cleanup – Daily cron job removes logs older than the configured retention period</li>
</ul>
Compatibility:
<ul>
<li>Multisite Compatible – Works with WordPress multisite installations, including super admin username changes</li>
<li>Members Plugin Compatible – Correctly tracks role changes when using the Members plugin for multiple role assignments</li>
<li>Migration from Lock User Account plugin – Automatically migrates locked users from the Lock User Account plugin</li>
</ul>
Use Cases:
<ul>
<li>Find customers who changed their email after making a purchase</li>
<li>Track when and who changed user roles</li>
<li>Audit user profile modifications for security</li>
<li>Monitor login activity and detect suspicious access</li>
<li>View and manage active user sessions</li>
<li>Allow username changes without database access</li>
<li>Lock compromised or suspended accounts instantly</li>
<li>Temporarily disable user access without deleting accounts</li>
</ul>

WPZOOM User History – Lock Users & Change Usernames

Track changes made to user accounts, lock/unlock users, change usernames, and monitor login activity.

LogDash Activity Log vs WPZOOM User History – Lock Users & Change Usernames