Gary Kovar

Kellen Mace

Have you ever activated a WordPress plugin, then had to hunt around the admin sidebar trying to find the new menu items the plugin added? Or maybe after looking for them, you found out that the new plugin didn’t even add any menu items at all. Show Plugin Menu Items on Activation solves that problem by pointing out exactly which new menu items have been added to the admin sidebar every time a plugin is activated.
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<li>If 1, 2 or 3 menu items were added, admin pointers will be displayed to point out the newly added menu items.</li>
<li>If 4 or more menu items were added a “Many new plugin menu items were added.” notice will be displayed at the top of the screen.</li>
<li>If no new menu items were added, a “No new plugin menu items were added.” notice will be displayed at the top of the screen.</li>
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Show Plugin Menu Items on Activation

Works like a charm!

Identify any newly added menu items on plugin activation.

Andrew Skochelias

Pavlo Kotula

WordPress changelog – logs any uploads, updates, installations/uninstallations, activations/deactivations of themes, plugins and WordPress core. 
It could be helpful to easily find out the moment when something went wrong with your site and quickly fix the issue.
The plugin logs such actions: 
* Theme installation 
* Theme update 
* Theme activation 
* Theme deactivation 
* Theme removal 
* Plugin installation 
* Plugin update 
* Plugin activation 
* Plugin deactivation 
* Plugin removal 
* Translation update 
* WordPress update 
* WordPress reinstall

WordPress Changelog

It is a very handy plugin in a case when there a lot of people are working on the project. So you can track when and what was updated or installed. And with help of this plugin, you can quickly find out what caused any issues.

Useful plugin

WordPress changelog - logs any uploads, updates, installations/uninstallations, activations/deactivations of themes, plugins and WordPress core.

Show Plugin Menu Items on Activation vs WordPress Changelog