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PermaLogger is a comprehensive WordPress activity logging plugin that tracks user actions and system events in your WordPress admin area. All events are logged locally and can be synced to the PermaLogger external service for immutable storage and analysis using blockchain technology.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>User Login Tracking – Monitor successful and failed login attempts</li>
<li>Profile Updates – Track changes to user profiles including password changes</li>
<li>Email Changes – Log when users update their email addresses</li>
<li>Dashboard Movement – Track page navigation within the WordPress admin</li>
<li>Post & Page Tracking – Monitor creation, updates, deletions, and status changes</li>
<li>Content Diff Tracking – Optional git-style diffs showing exact content changes</li>
<li>Admin Hooks – Comprehensive tracking of all WordPress admin hooks (optional)</li>
<li>Local Database Storage – All logs stored in your WordPress database</li>
<li>API Sync – Automatic syncing to external PermaLogger service</li>
<li>Log Viewer – Built-in interface to view and filter logs</li>
<li>Pagination & Filtering – Easy navigation through your activity logs</li>
</ul>
<h4>Use Cases</h4>
<ul>
<li>Security auditing and compliance</li>
<li>Debugging user-reported issues</li>
<li>Monitoring content changes</li>
<li>Tracking admin activity</li>
<li>Compliance with data regulations</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy & Data</h4>
PermaLogger logs user actions including usernames, IP addresses, and timestamps. The plugin can sync this data to an external service (PermaLogger.com) if you provide an API key. You should inform your users about this tracking in your privacy policy.
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 5.0 or higher</li>
<li>PHP 7.0 or higher</li>
<li>bitcoinapi.io API key (get one at https://bitcoinapi.io)</li>
</ul>
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to the BitcoinAPI external service to sync and store WordPress activity logs. This connection is required for the plugin’s core functionality of providing immutable, blockchain-based log storage.
What is sent: 
* User activity data including usernames, user IDs, email addresses, IP addresses 
* Timestamps of actions performed 
* Details of WordPress actions (login attempts, profile updates, email changes, page/post modifications, admin navigation, etc.) 
* Request data associated with tracked events
When is data sent: 
* Data is sent automatically when the temporary log file reaches 100KB in size 
* Each batch contains all logged events since the last sync 
* Syncing only occurs if you have provided a valid API key
Service Information: 
* Service Provider: BitcoinAPI 
* Service Used: Log Storage and Blockchain Timestamping 
* API Endpoint: https://bitcoinapi.io/api/ 
* Terms of Service: https://bitcoinapi.io/terms 
* Privacy Policy: https://bitcoinapi.io/privacy
Important Notes: 
* All logs are stored locally in your WordPress database regardless of API sync status 
* You must provide a valid API key from https://bitcoinapi.io for external syncing to occur 
* Without an API key, the plugin will still log events locally but will not sync externally 
* Users should be informed about this data transmission in your site’s privacy policy
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
PermaLogger logs user activity on your WordPress site. The following data is collected:
<ul>
<li>Username and user ID</li>
<li>Email address</li>
<li>IP address</li>
<li>Timestamp of actions</li>
<li>Details of actions performed (page visits, content changes, etc.)</li>
</ul>
If you provide an API key, this data is transmitted to BitcoinAPI external service via HTTPS (bitcoinapi.io). Make sure to disclose this data collection in your site’s privacy policy and obtain necessary user consent.
<h3>Support</h3>
For support, feature requests, or bug reports, please visit: 
* Plugin Support Forum: (will be available after plugin approval) 
* Documentation: https://bitcoinapi.io/docs 
* Website: https://bitcoinapi.io 
* Contact: support@bitcoinapi.io
<h3>Credits</h3>
Developed by BitcoinAPI 
https://bitcoinapi.io

PermaLogger

Track all hookable actions in the WP-Admin area and log them to PermaLogger's external service for comprehensive activity monitoring.

webheadcoder

What happens if WP-Cron stops working?
WordPress, Themes, and Plugins would never know if a new version is out. You could login to your website everyday for months, and never see any notices about updates. If you’re not careful you’ll soon have an out of date WordPress installation susceptible to hackers. Scheduled posts would never get published, auto drafts never deleted… you get the picture. Your website would crumble up and die.
Use Woocommerce? Subscriptions? Customers would never get billed again! Sessions would never be deleted. Scheduled sales would never appear. Your website would become bloated while giving away subscriptions for one time payments.
WP-Cron is important. So make sure it keeps working.
Think of this plugin as insurance, but free. WordPress, plugins, themes, and servers are all moving parts that can be updated at anytime. You can’t guarantee any of these changes won’t break your website in some way. While it’s not likely WP-Cron will stop working, if it does, you better know about it.
Every 24 hours this plugin automatically checks to see if WP-Cron is still able to run. Obviously, it does not depend on WP-Cron. Instead it sets its own transients that expire over 24 hours. Whenever the transient expires it checks to make sure WordPress can run WP-Cron. If an unexpected error occurs the you’ll get an email.
In addition to checking if WP-Cron CAN run, this plugin now logs all hooks running with WP-Cron and if they fail or complete. You’ll be able to see what ran, when it ran, how long it took, and if it completed.
For your convenience The WP-Cron Status Checker is displayed on your WordPress admin dashboard. The status page is accessible through the Tools -> WP Cron Status side menu.
Know when WP-Cron doesn’t complete
When a WP-Cron hook fails you’ll get notified soon after. A hook “fails” when it takes longer than 5 minutes to complete. You’ll get an email within 24 hours (or based on the plugin’s settings) to notify you of any failures.
Sometimes a plugin runs some code that abruptly exits the process and there is no way of knowing when it stopped. WP-Cron Status Checker does it’s best to detect this type of code. If it’s caught, the elapsed time is not recorded and you’ll see “N/A” with an “Incomplete” status. Other times when it’s caught you’ll see an “Exit” status which is considered complete. <a href="https://webheadcoder.com/wp-cron-status-checker/" rel="nofollow ugc">Please see the plugin page for more on completion statuses.</a>
PRO Version 
The PRO version removes the 3 log limit and lets you choose to keep logs longer and email more frequently. Please see more on the plugin page: <a href="https://webheadcoder.com/wp-cron-status-checker/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://webheadcoder.com/wp-cron-status-checker/</a>

WP-Cron Status Checker

I know I created this plugin, but I am also using it and it has warned me WP Cron stopped working.  I'm not sure what the error was.  WP Cron just stopped working for a short while and then started working the next day right before I contacted the web host.

Caught an error

I debug WordPress websites for a living and a stopped, paused or failed cron is often a problem. I use this plugin to help in the process. Thanks to the dev!

One request. At first, it was very hard to find where to find the status (it's a widget on the dashboard btw). It would be helpful if this was mentioned somewhere in the description of the plugin (unless its there already and I missed it). 

Cheers!

Very handy tool in my debug tool kit

This is an easy way to check if WP-cron is enabled and jobs are actually running. Don't let the relatively low number of active installations mislead you, I suspect many people may use this plugin just like I did - install it just to check WP-cron is doing ok, then remove the plugin again.

My only criticism is that I had expected to be able to view the WP-cron status on this plugin's settings page, instead I had to look for it in the Dashboard.

Good tool to check WP-cron


I installed by mistake, intending to use a simple tool to monitor and log WP-Cron activity. It appears, this is now another freemius plugin which seems to me to be a bait, because description and screenshots are not accurate and up to date.



To use this plugin is now required to give all your personnal data or to register/subscribe. This shouldn't be required for such limited functionality plugin. An unnecessary and intrusive step for something as simple as viewing cron logs



Thankfully, better alternatives exist. Installed by mistake, uninstalling by will.


Almost a bait because it requires personnal data

If WP-Cron runs important things for you, you better make sure WP-Cron always runs!

PermaLogger vs WP-Cron Status Checker