Activity History Tracker

Track and monitor all plugin activities on your WordPress site including activations, deactivations, updates, installations, and deletions with detailed logging and user tracking.

This comprehensive plugin activity tracker provides a complete audit trail of all plugin-related actions performed on your WordPress website. Whether you’re a developer, administrator, or site owner, this plugin gives you complete visibility into plugin management activities.

Key Features

• Complete Activity Logging: Automatically tracks plugin activations, deactivations, updates, installations, and deletions
• User Tracking: Records which user performed each action with timestamp information
• Secure Storage: All logs are sanitized and stored securely in your WordPress database
• Easy Filtering: Filter logs by activity type (activation, deactivation, update, etc.)
• Pagination Support: Handle large numbers of log entries with built-in pagination
• User-Friendly Interface: Clean, intuitive admin interface integrated into WordPress plugins page
• Log Management: Clear all logs when needed with confirmation prompts
• Permission Controls: Only users with ‘manage_options’ capability can access logs

What Gets Tracked

The plugin automatically monitors and logs:

• Plugin Activations: When any plugin is activated
• Plugin Deactivations: When any plugin is deactivated
• Plugin Updates: When plugins are updated via WordPress admin
• Plugin Installations: When new plugins are installed
• Plugin Deletions: When plugins are completely removed

Each log entry includes:
– Date and time of the action
– User who performed the action
– Plugin name and version
– Type of action performed

Usage

Viewing Activity Logs

1. Navigate to Plugins > Activity History in your WordPress admin
2. View all plugin activities in a clean, organized table
3. See date/time, user, action type, plugin name, and version for each entry

Filtering Logs

1. Use the dropdown filter to show specific types of activities:
   • All Activities
   • Activations only
   • Deactivations only
   • Updates only
   • Deletions only
   • Installations only
2. Click Filter to apply your selection

Managing Logs

• Clear All Logs: Click the “Clear Logs” button to remove all stored activity data
• Pagination: Navigate through multiple pages of logs using the pagination controls
• Logs are automatically limited to the most recent 1000 entries to maintain performance

Privacy Policy

This plugin stores plugin activity data locally in your WordPress database. No data is transmitted to external servers. All logged information includes:

• Plugin names and versions
• User IDs of administrators who performed actions
• Timestamps of when actions occurred
• Types of actions performed

This data is used solely for providing audit trails of plugin management activities on your website.

Support

For support questions, feature requests, or bug reports, please visit the WordPress.org plugin support forum.

Contributing

This plugin is developed and maintained by Yahya Eddaqqaq. Contributions and feedback are welcome through the WordPress plugin repository.

Automatic Installation

1. Login to your WordPress admin dashboard
2. Go to Plugins > Add New
3. Search for “Activity History Tracker”
4. Click Install Now and then Activate

Manual Installation

1. Download the plugin files
2. Upload the activity-history-tracker folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
3. Go to Plugins page in WordPress admin
4. Find “Activity History Tracker” and click Activate

Post-Installation Setup

1. After activation, go to Plugins > Activity History in your WordPress admin
2. The plugin will automatically start tracking all plugin activities
3. No additional configuration is required – it works out of the box

1.0.0

• Initial release
• Plugin activation/deactivation tracking
• Plugin update tracking
• Plugin installation tracking
• Plugin deletion tracking
• User and timestamp logging
• Activity filtering by type
• Log pagination support
• Secure data storage and sanitization
• Clean admin interface
• Permission-based access control