Login History

Login history provides full visibility to all login attempts on your site. Capture detailed information for every login attempt.

Login History Features

• Full, comprehensive login history
• Records both successful and failed login attempts
• Captures any error messages shown for failed login attempts
• Adds a Last Login column to the users page in the admin area
• Login history is fully searchable by username or IP address
• Login history can be filtered according to login outcome
• Modern, elegant and easy to use plugin

Login history provides essential visibility to all login attempts and greatly assists in troubleshooting security issues or login problems.

A record of user logins is a key component of many security standards and governance policies.

The login history page provides the following information for each login attempt:

• Date and time of login attempt
  Shown in your local timezone
• IP address
  Of the device that attempted to login
• IP location
  The geographic location of the connecting device
• Device type
  e.g. Windows, Mac, iPhone etc.
• Username
  The username that was used to login
• Result code
  e.g. success, incorrect_password
• Message
  The error message that was displayed to the user (if any)

Login history is a modern, lightweight plugin that will not impact the performance of your site. GDPR Compliant.

Last Login

Login to the admin area of your site and select ‘Users’ from the left sidebar.

A last login time for each user is shown in the ‘last login’ column.

Login history

In the sidebar of the ‘Users’ section there will be a new link for ‘Login history’. Select this page to view the login history.

You can also view the login history for a single user by clicking the ‘Login history’ link displayed in the ‘Users’ table.

Using the WordPress dashboard

• Navigate to ‘Plugins’ in the WordPress dashboard.
• Click on ‘Add new’ to add a new plugin.
• Search for ‘login history’
• Click ‘Install Now’
• Click the ‘Activate’ link when your download has completed.

Uploading via the WordPress Dashboard

First, download the Login History plugin file to your computer.

• Navigate to ‘Plugins’ in the WordPress dashboard.
• Click on ‘Add new’ to add a new plugin.
• Click on ‘Upload Plugin’ at the top of the page.
• Click ‘Choose File’
• Select login-history.zip from your computer
• Click ‘Install Now’
• Click the ‘Activate’ link when your download has completed.

1. 

   The login history page showing detailed information about login attempts.

2. 

   The Users page with added link to show a login log on a per user basis.

2.1.2

• Added last login functionality

2.1.1

• Minor bug fixes and improvements

2.1.0

• Initial release to WordPress.