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Noti – Activity Notification (aka Noti) plugin is your single-stop shop for all you need to track any WordPress website activities. And it is completely free.
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A FEW QUICK FACTS
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<li>Noti is completely free of any charges. All the code that runs on your server(s) will always be free. There are no hidden fees, PRO versions, paid add-ons, extensions, etc.</li>
<li>Noti does not capture or send externally any information about your website or how the plugin is used.</li>
<li>Noti does not include advertisements of any kind (no banners, cross-sales pitches, or affiliate links).</li>
<li>Noti functionality is based on the WordPress core concept of actions and filters. So, inherently, it integrates with ALL WordPress plugins, themes, and WordPress core itself.</li>
<li>You can create an infinite number of event types to track or use any existing event types from <a href="https://github.com/vasyltech/noti-event-types" rel="nofollow ugc">the public Github repository</a> that is continuously growing.</li>
<li>It works well on both single and multi-site WordPress websites.</li>
<li>Noti comes with a powerful and flexible conditions library so you can define under which condition(s) to track desired activities.</li>
<li>The initial plugin’s version already includes three different ways to send alerts (via WordPress embedded email function, webhooks and dump logs into a file). More free notification types will be available as the plugin evolves.</li>
<li>Noti is optimized for large-scale websites and comes with the ability to aggregate similar events over a defined period of time. This potentially can reduce DB storage usage by 50% or more.</li>
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NEED A NEW FEATURE? JUST ASK!
Noti is a brand new plugin, so naturally many useful, user-friendly and polished features may be missing. My initial intention was on preparing a solid and healthy foundation. From here it can grow and grow fast.
Pick any new feature or enhancement that you like/need and I will gladly add it in future releases. It literally can be any free or paid feature that is available in other “user monitoring and alerting” plugins and if it requires only my time, I will prioritize it. That is why please <a href="https://mailchi.mp/3a13b922c0bd/getnoti" rel="nofollow ugc">subscribe to the regular email notifications</a> where I will be disclosing new feature releases and announcements.
My only ask for you is to help spread awareness about Noti. More active installations – faster new features will be added.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Noti is based on the WordPress core concept of hooks (actions and filters). When a hook is triggered, it typically carries enough information about the event. That is why 9 out of 10 times it is just a matter of “listening” for certain hooks and storing carried information in DB. Of course, sometimes, you have to take into account certain conditions, enrich information by calling some other function, or even combine data from multiple hooks. The good thing is that Noti allows you to do all this without writing a single line of code.
To be able to “listen” for any hook, you create a new event type and specify with just a few lines of JSON-based configurations the hook you want to listen to, information that you want to capture, and, if needed, conditions under which event should be captured. Configurations may look intimidating at first, so please do not hesitate to reach out to me and I will guide you through the process and help you to define the desired event type.
When the defined event type becomes active, Noti will listen and persist every occurrence of that event in the dedicated database tables in the most efficient manner.
As a bonus feature, you have the ability to subscribe to any specific event type and receive email notifications, configure to send these events to external API (webhooks), or log these events in a separate file. As the plugin evolves and grows in popularity, I’ll be adding more free types of notifications like SendGrid, Mailchimp, Push Notifications, Slack, etc.
WHY IS IT FREE? WHERE IS A CATCH?
Seriously. No catch. No hidden agenda. I wanted to build this product for years and finally, while experiencing quite a bumpy time in my personal life, I found a remedy in building Noti.
I’m a financially independent principal engineer leading a handful of strategic digital products for the biggest digital media company in the Western hemisphere. On another hand, I also maintain one of the most popular user access management plugins, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-access-manager/" rel="ugc">Advanced Access Manager</a> which generates great passive income for me. In short, money is not a priority anymore, so it was time for me to start giving something back.
HOW DOES SUPPORT WORK?
From the extensive experience of managing other digital products (including a few WordPress plugins), I recognize that support does not scale well with just one person in charge. However, I will do my best to answer any questions you may have on the official WordPress forum or on <a href="https://github.com/vasyltech/noti-activity-notification" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>.
Also, you are welcome to contribute to the product with your code, transactions, new event types or help me answer any questions that other folks may have. I’m hoping that over time we will build a strong community around this product and evolve it beyond imagination.
Please also <a href="https://mailchi.mp/3a13b922c0bd/getnoti" rel="nofollow ugc">subscribe to the regular email notifications</a> where I will be disclosing new feature releases and announcements.

Noti – Activity Notification

Totally free, infinitely configurable, and powerful website activity monitoring and alerting plugin for WordPress projects of any scale.

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The modern activity log solution for WordPress
<a href="https://wpadminaudit.com/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=WADA&utm_content=plugin+repo+description" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Admin Audit</a> is the powerful monitoring log plugin for WordPress. 
Site owners and administrators can sleep better at night knowing the plugin keeps track of all site changes, security events, and admin activities.
Ever wondered
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<li>who unpublished a post?</li>
<li>when a plugin was deactivated?</li>
<li>how that strange new admin account appeared?</li>
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The WordPress activity log in WP Admin Audit answers these questions.
Keep track of everything that happens on your WordPress sites to:
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<li>Have a log of every change that’s made</li>
<li>Know about security-relevant activities</li>
<li>Find out who did what and when they did it</li>
<li>Analyze the steps that led to a technical problem</li>
<li>Identify and mitigate automated login attempts by bots</li>
</ul>
<h3>What is being logged?</h3>
The short answer: almost all changes on your WordPress site, but you can decide what is kept in the audit log.
The longer answer: WP Admin Audit has sensors that monitor the changes in your WordPress site and record what actions were performed by which user at which time on which item. A summary of the types of monitored events is below.
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<li>Content: Page and Post changes (e.g. post created/updated/published/unpublished/deleted)</li>
<li>Taxonomy: Changes to Categories and Tags (e.g. tag is created, updated, or deleted)</li>
<li>User: User registration, user profile updates, password resets, user deletions, login, and logout</li>
<li>WordPress: Updates of the WordPress core version, settings updates (general/writing/reading/discussion/media/permalink/privacy settings)</li>
<li>Plugin: Installation, activation, updates, deactivation, and deletion of plugins</li>
<li>Theme: Installation, activation (theme switch), update, and deletion of themes</li>
<li>Media: Media file and data creations, updates, and deletions</li>
<li>Menu: Creation, updates, and deletions of menus</li>
<li>Comment: Comment creations, updates, deletions, and status changes (approved, unapproved, spammed, etc.)</li>
<li>File: File changes via the plugin file editor and theme file editor</li>
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See the complete list of sensors, i.e. <a href="https://wpadminaudit.com/documentation/wp-admin-audit/sensors/event-types/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=WADA&utm_content=plugin+repo+description" rel="nofollow ugc">the event types that are stored in the WordPress activity log</a>.
For every event WP Admin Audit records:
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<li>Event type</li>
<li>Date and time</li>
<li>IP address (the action/event originated from)</li>
<li>Acting user (the user who did the change)</li>
<li>Subject (the item affected e.g. a post the action is done with/to)</li>
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<h3>Features (free)</h3>
Besides the WordPress event log, WP Admin Audit also features:
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<li>Powerful search & filtering: Powerful free-text search as well as filtering by all sorts of categories makes it easy to find the data you are interested in.</li>
<li>Administrator & user audit: Find inactive administrator accounts and review the users’ last login dates. Check on their individual activity log.</li>
<li>Login attempts audit: Monitor logins to be aware of automated (brute-force) attacks and to identify IP addresses for blocking.</li>
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<h3>Features (premium editions)</h3>
Upgrade to the <a href="https://wpadminaudit.com/pricing/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=WADA&utm_content=plugin+repo+description" rel="nofollow ugc">premium editions</a> for the following features:
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<li>Third-party plugin support: Optional extensions help you capture events happening in other WordPress plugins. <a href="https://wpadminaudit.com/extensions/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=WADA&utm_content=plugin+repo+description" rel="nofollow ugc">See our extension directory for more details.</a></li>
<li>Notifications: Select event types or event severity levels (e.g. critical and high) for instant notification via email. You can choose whole user groups (e.g. administrators), individual WordPress users, or selected email addresses.</li>
<li>Offsite archive / Replication: To increase security and for backup purposes, you can forward the events for storage to an external logging provider.</li>
<li>Enforce password changes: You can enable a policy that requires users (with specific user roles) to change their passwords regularly. For example, administrator accounts can be required to change their passwords at least every 90 days.</li>
<li>CSV export: Export events, users, and login attempts to CSV files.</li>
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<a href="https://wpadminaudit.com/feature-comparison/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=WADA&utm_content=plugin+repo+description" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here for more details and for a complete feature list</a>

WP Admin Audit

I just tested this plugin, and it is fantastic. The Search list in the logs works like a charm, besides events, I can search for logs for individual users as well, and also the way we can filter the log is great too !

The only thing that worries me for now, is that in the settings page, when I'm setting the "Keep events for:" is not "registering". After saving the my changes, every other change made on the Settings page, is being shown correctly, but the "keep events for:" field, becomes empty from the number of days I had set it to. The plugin however correctly logs the change, and right now I have it for 1 day. In a day or two perhaps, it will be clear if that part of the settings page actually works.

It would be nice if we could manually delete the logs, and also have the ability to export them...

Update: Looking at the database values, it seems that the correct value to keep the events for is set (1 day in my test case), so it's a matter of displaying the value in the settings page, and not actually setting it. I am also guessing that to manually delete all the data, is to set the setting to delete all the data when the plugin is uninstalled, and then uninstall and reinstall it again, or manually delete the records from the database, which for many users would be a dangerous task...

BTW: Tested on Xampp Localserver, Windows 10, PHP 7.4.x, Chrome Browser, WP 5.9, with many plugins active among them Gutenberg 12.5.0 RC1.

Thanks,
Nick.

Fantastic !

One of the better activity logger out there I must say. Love the list of sensors which I hope will keep growing, and I especially love the event details screen. Keep up the good work!

Love the sensors and event detail!

WP Admin Audit monitors the security-relevant activities on your site, keeps an event log and tells you when something out of the ordinary happens.

Noti – Activity Notification vs WP Admin Audit