John James Jacoby

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<p>WP User Activity is the best way to log activity in WordPress. Activity can be sorted, filtered, and viewed per-user, along with session data for logged in users and IP addresses & user-agents for others.</p>
<p>Activity is broken down into object “Types” and “Actions.” Types are the objects being acted upon, and actions are what is being done to them. If you’re familiar with BuddyPress, this should feel pretty comfortable.</p>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<pre><code>Admin logged in 2 minutes ago.

Admin created the post "Hello World" 33 seconds ago.

Admin created the topic "I need help!" 5 days ago.
</code></pre>
<h4>Available Actions</h4>
<ul>
<li>Attachments (Upload, Edit, Delete)</li>
<li>Comments (Create, Pending, Approve, Unaprove, Trash, Untrash, Spam, Unspam, Delete)</li>
<li>Core (Update, Auto-update)</li>
<li>Exports (Download)</li>
<li>Menus (Create, Update, Delete)</li>
<li>Plugins (Install, Update, Activate, Deactivate, Edit, Delete)</li>
<li>Posts (Create, Update, Delete, Trash, Untrash, Spam, Unspam, Future)</li>
<li>Settings (Update)</li>
<li>Terms (Create, Update, Delete)</li>
<li>Themes (Customize, Install, Update, Activate, Edit, Delete)</li>
<li>Users (Login, Login Failure, Logout, Register, Update, Delete)</li>
<li>Widgets (Update, Delete)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Also checkout</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-chosen/" title="Make long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly." rel="ugc">WP Chosen</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-profiles/" title="A sophisticated way to edit users in WordPress." rel="ugc">WP User Profiles</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-avatars/" title="Allow users to upload avatars or choose them from your media library." rel="ugc">WP User Avatars</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-groups/" title="Group users together with taxonomies & terms." rel="ugc">WP User Groups</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-pretty-filters/" title="Makes post filters better match what's already in Media & Attachments." rel="ugc">WP Pretty Filters</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-media-categories/" title="Add categories to media & attachments." rel="ugc">WP Media Categories</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-authors/" title="Authors for categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms." rel="ugc">WP Term Authors</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-colors/" title="Pretty colors for categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms." rel="ugc">WP Term Colors</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-icons/" title="Families for categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms." rel="ugc">WP Term Families</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-icons/" title="Pretty icons for categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms." rel="ugc">WP Term Icons</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-order/" title="Sort taxonomy terms, your way." rel="ugc">WP Term Order</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-visibility/" title="Visibilities for categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms." rel="ugc">WP Term Visibility</a></li>
</ul>


WP User Activity

Is a great plugin, logs everything in a separate post type

Support third party plugins (Easy Digital Downloads, Woocommerce, etc) could be awesome

Nice work Jhon!



Nice work!

Works fine, integrates with WP User Profile. Missing a way to trash old entries automatically, but no match for a developer to add.

Add auto trashing after x weeks and it's get 5 stars.

Great for logging user activity, yours (admin's) or other users

WP User Activity is the best way to log activity in WordPress. Activity can be sorted, filtered, and viewed per-user, along with session data for logg …

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<p>Activity Monitor tracks all user activity on your blog or network. The activities can be viewed in global table showing activities on the whole network, or locally for just the blog you are currently viewing. The activites can be filtered so that only specific blogs / hooks / IPs / users are displayed.</p>
<p>Monitored actions include (not exhaustive):</p>
<ul>
<li>Comments: approve, held, spam, delete</li>
<li>Custom Post Types:  draft, publish, update, trash, delete</li>
<li>Logins: login, login failed, logout</li>
<li>Pageviews: admin, front-end</li>
<li>Passwords: reset, retrieve</li>
<li>Plugins: activate, deactivate</li>
<li>Pages: draft, publish, update, trash, delete</li>
<li>Posts: draft, publish, update, trash, delete, password</li>
<li>Taxonomies: create, edit, delete</li>
<li>Themes: switched</li>
<li>Updates: WordPress core, plugins, themes</li>
<li>Users: register, delete, profile changes</li>
<li>And more….</li>
</ul>
<p>The logged information consists of:</p>
<ul>
<li>A description of what was logged</li>
<li>Blog</li>
<li>Timestamp</li>
<li>Hook that was triggered</li>
<li>User ID</li>
</ul>
<h4>git</h4>
<p>The <a href="https://bitbucket.org/edward_electric/activity-monitor" rel="nofollow ugc">Activity Monitor has a git repository</a>.</p>
<h4>Security tips</h4>
<p>There are several ways for people to break in to your WordPress installation, or cause trouble by DDOS. Here are some tips on how to use the Activity Monitor and its plugins to help detect problems:</p>
<ul>
<li>Get a DDOS protection service with an API. There is a plugin to ban IPs via CloudFlare (<em>Send To CloudFlare</em>). Other APIs could be supported as the need arises.</li>
<li>If you have another DDOS service, write a script that can ban visitors by IP. Use this script with the <em>Send To Exec</em> plugin.</li>
<li>If you can’t ban users using a script, at least set up the <em>Send To E-mail</em> plugin to inform you of suspicious activity.</li>
<li>Use the Bruteforce Detect plugin to detect when an IP or IPs are trying to guess the admin’s password. Ban the IPs automatically using <em>Send To Exec</em>.</li>
<li>Do not use admin as the username for your administrator account. Instead, use some else and add the admin username to the list of banned usernames in the <em>Login Failed Username</em> plugin. Ban the IPs that cause the plugin to react.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Custom hooks</h4>
<p>See the <a href="https://pvactivitymonitor.com/doc/dev/" rel="nofollow ugc">developer documentation</a> for relevant info on how to create custom hooks.</p>


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