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MH User Activity Monitor shows in real time which users, visitors, WooCommerce customers and bots are currently active on your WordPress website. The plugin helps administrators identify unusual activity, cart sessions, bot traffic and suspicious requests more quickly, with privacy options such as IP anonymization, data-saving mode and automatic cleanup.
<h4>Live monitoring for WordPress websites</h4>
MH User Activity Monitor displays active sessions directly in the WordPress admin area. Administrators can see which visitors are currently online, whether logged-in users are active, which page types are being viewed and when the last activity occurred.
The overview uses dashboard cards, filters, sorting and live refresh. This makes it easier to distinguish normal visitor activity from unusual access patterns.
<h4>Keep an eye on WooCommerce carts</h4>
When WooCommerce is active, the plugin can display active cart sessions. Depending on the selected setting, it stores and displays only the item count, item count and cart total, or detailed product information.
This can help shop owners see whether customers currently have products in their cart, whether carts are abandoned or whether unusual sessions appear in the checkout area.
<h4>Detect bots and suspicious requests</h4>
The plugin detects known bots, crawlers, SEO tools, AI crawlers, social media preview bots and suspicious request patterns. Examples include requests to login areas, XML-RPC, .env files, .git directories or other typical scanner targets.
The bot and risk indicators are not a firewall and do not replace a dedicated security plugin. They help make suspicious technical traffic more visible and easier to classify.
<h4>Privacy-friendly settings</h4>
Because the plugin processes technical visitor data, it includes several privacy options. New installations use anonymized IP addresses by default. Additional privacy modes such as None, Standard, Data-saving and Strict are available.
Stored URLs and referrers are saved without query parameters so sensitive values such as tokens, email addresses, search terms or tracking parameters are not stored unnecessarily. User-agent, URL and referrer values are also length-limited to reduce the amount of stored data.
Additional options include automatic cleanup via WordPress-Cron, ignored IP rules, CIDR support, WooCommerce cart modes and the ability to disable the frontend ping completely.
<h4>Who is this plugin for?</h4>
The plugin is suitable for operators of WordPress websites, WooCommerce shops, membership areas, booking sites and editorial websites who want a short-term view of what is happening on their website right now.
Typical use cases include:
<ul>
<li>Shop owners want to monitor active carts and checkout sessions.</li>
<li>Administrators want to identify unusual bot traffic or scanners more quickly.</li>
<li>Website operators want to see which pages are currently being visited.</li>
<li>Support teams want to understand short-term technical visitor activity.</li>
<li>Operators of smaller websites want a simple live overview without external tracking services.</li>
</ul>
The plugin is intended for short-term technical monitoring. Site operators should check which data they really need, how long it is stored and whether information must be added to their privacy policy.
<h4>Stability note</h4>
This version is marked as the current stable build. Translations, help texts, screenshots, version metadata and basic PHP/ZIP checks were reviewed again before release.
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 6.2 or newer.</li>
<li>PHP 7.4 or newer.</li>
<li>Tested up to WordPress 7.0.</li>
<li>WooCommerce is optional and only required for cart monitoring.</li>
</ul>

MH User Activity Monitor

Live monitoring for WordPress visitors, users, WooCommerce carts, bots and suspicious requests with privacy-friendly options.

Rick Hellewell

Professional spammers use programs to automate their spamming. The ‘Block Comment Spam Bots’ (BCSB) plugin efficiently blocks their process. No more comment spam!
As no legitimate user will use the professional spammer’s automated process which relies on cURL and WGET commands, real users will never notice the BCSB plugin at work. There are no CAPTCHAS for your visitors to interact with. No silly questions. Just the comment form as designed in any theme.
On the admin side, there are no blacklists, special keys (like Askimet), overloaded spam queues, or overworked databases that store spam comments until you manually delete them.
Install the plugin and that’s it. Invisible, to you and your visitors. The only change you will notice is in your admin area. The list of comments now has a green check next to them. That way you know that comment was made on your website by a real person and was not bypassed by hacking spammers connecting directly to your server.
All that remains is comments made by real people, and while real people can spam, it takes them time and effort. The amount of spam from real people is a lot more manageable than the tsunami from automated spammers, saving you time to concentrate on the important things in life, like your readers, and making connections.
We’ve tested it on multiple websites and it wipes out automated spam completely. If it doesn’t on your site, please let us know.
** Geeky Stuff ** 
…in case you are interested in how it works…
tl;dr – This provides a total and easy solution to comment spam from spam bots.
Comments are processed by the WordPress wp-post-comments.php file. Automated spammers (‘spam bots’) can provide (‘post’) data directly to that page, bypassing any comment processing, by using CURL/WGET commands.
Bypassing the comment form by posting directly (via CURL or WGET commands), is quite easy. Just send the post ID number, and the bot’s fake name and email, and the spammy content. Boom! Comment spam is on your site!
The result is comment spam – and that is not always caught by other comment spam checkers. Even if it is caught by programs such as Akismet, processing that spam takes some server resources, including writing to the database.
This plugin uses several techniques to ‘sense’ a spambot. There are hidden fields that are changed after a delay. There is a delay in displaying the submit button. And it blocks direct access to the WordPress post/processing functions.
The techniques, also used in our standalone “FormSpemmerTrap” (FST) program, and our other anti-spam plugins (like FormSpammerTrap for Comments), are very effective. They use a bit of JavaScript to block spambots – since automated processes via CURL/WGET/etc cannot process JS code.
It’s simple: you install this plugin, activate it, and bot comments will stop. Immediately.
And it doesn’t add any visual impediments to your comments. No reCaptcha things (which many see as a pain). No silly questions (‘what is 2+8’) on the form. Your comment form does not change. Regular users will not notice a difference. But you will. No more spam comments for you!
This is the best solution to block comment spam. We’ve tested it on a site that had 20-40 spam comments a day. With this plugin enabled, the spam comment stopped. Immediately. And there have been none since installing this plugin. ** Not one. Zero.**
The Admin, Comments list page is modified to show a column with a green checkmark icon if the comment was entered by a real person and not a bot. This is an assurance that the comment was not entered via an automated CURL/WGET to the wp-comments-post.php file. A comment that is on the list that does not show the checkmark was done by a bot. But you won’t see those blocked comments with this plugin enabled. They never get into your database. You can hover over the checkmark icon to see the GUID value indicating a person entered the comment.
The plugins ‘Settings’ screen has no settings. You don’t even need to look at the Settings screen. If you do, you’ll see information about the plugin. And there is a CURL command you can use to test the effectiveness of blocking (or not blocking) direct access to the wp-comments-post.php file.
The plugin also adds the hidden GUID field to the comment form after a delay to help block bots that are using the comment form to submit. If the hidden field is not submitted then a bot tried to bypass the comment form. And a short delay happens before the comment submit button is displayed – another bot protection.

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