WP Activity LogbyMelapress

THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE & EASY TO USE WORDPRESS ACTIVITY LOG PLUGIN

Keep an activity log of everything that happens on your WordPress and WordPress multisite with the WP Security Audit Log plugin to:

• Ensure user productivity
• Ease troubleshooting
• Know exactly what all your users are doing
• Better manage & organize your WordPress site
• Easily spot suspicious behavior before there are security problems.

WP Security Audit Log is the most comprehensive real time user activity and monitoring log plugin. It helps thousands of WordPress administrators and security professionals keep an eye on what is happening on their websites. It is also the most highly rated WordPress activity log plugin and have been featured on popular sites such as GoDaddy, ManageWP, Pagely, Shout Me Loud and WPKube.

Note: All WordPress logging functionality is FREE. Features such as reports, email notifications & search are available in the Premium Edition.

Maintained & Supported by WP White Security

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WordPress Changes & Details the Plugin Keeps a Log Of

As a comprehensive & complete WordPress activity log solution WP Security Audit Log does not just tell you that a post, a user profile, or an object was updated. It keeps a log of what was changed within the post, profile or object.

Below is a summary of the changes that the plugin can keep a record of:

• Post, Page and Custom Post Type changes such as status, content changes, title, URL, date and custom field changes

• Tags and Categories changes such as creating, modifying or deleting them, and adding or removing them from posts

• Widgets and Menus changes such as creating, modifying or deleting them

• User changes such as user created or registered, deleted or added to a site on multisite network

• User profile changes such as password, email, display name and role changes

• User activity such as login, logout, failed logins and terminating other sessions

• WordPress core and settings changes such as installed updates, permalinks, default role, URL and other site-wide changes

• WordPress multisite network changes such as adding, deleting or archiving sites, adding or removing users from sites etc (activity logs for multisite networks).

• Plugins and Themes changes such as installing, activating, deactivating, uninstalling and updating them

• WordPress database changes such as when a plugin adds or removes a table

• Changes on WooCommerce Stores & Products, Yoast SEO, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), MainWP and other popular WordPress plugins.

• WordPress site file changes such as new files are added, or existing ones are modified or deleted.

For every event that the plugin keeps a log of it also reports the:

• Date & time (and milliseconds) of when it happened,
• User & role of the user who did the change,
• Source IP address from where the change happened.

Refer to WordPress Activity Log Events for a complete list of all the changes the WP Security Audit Log can keep a record of.

Extend the Functionality of the WP Security Audit Log Plugin

Upgrade to WP Security Audit Log Premium to:

• See who is logged,
• See what everyone is doing in real time,
• Log off any user with just a click,
• Generate HTML and CSV reports,
• Export the activity log in CSV (ideal for integrations),
• Get notified via email of important changes,
• Get instant SMS message notifications of critical site changes,
• Search the activity log using text-based searches,
• Use built-in filters to fine tune the searches,
• Store activity log in an external database to improve security,
• Mirror the WordPress activity logs to Slack, Papertrail, Syslog and other central log management and collaboration solutions,
• Configure archiving and mirroring of logs.

See our premium features page for more detailed information.

Free and Premium Support

Support for the WP Security Audit Log plugin on the WordPress forums is free.

Premium world-class support is available via email to all WP Security Audit Log Premium customers.

Note: paid customers support is always given priority over free support. Paid customers support is provided via one-to-one email and over the phone. Upgrade to Premium to benefit from priority support.

Other Noteworthy Features

WP Security Audit Log plugin also has a number of features that make WordPress and WordPress multisite monitoring and auditing easier, such as:

• Built-in support for reverse proxies and web application firewalls
• Full WordPress multisite support
• Easily create your custom alerts to monitor additional functionality
• Developer tools including the logging of all HTTP GET and POST requests
• Integration with WhatIsMyIpAddress.com so you can get all information about an IP address with just a mouse click
• Limit who can view the WordPress activity log by either users or roles
• Limit who can manage the plugin by either users or roles
• Configurable WordPress dashboard widget highlighting the most recent critical activity
• Configurable WordPress security audit trail data retention
• User avatar is shown in the alerts for better recognizability
• Enable or disable any security alerts
• and much more…

Refer to the WordPress activity log plugin datasheet for a complete list of features.

As Featured On:

• GoDaddy
• Kinsta
• Pagely
• Shout Me Loud
• The Dev Couple
• WPKube
• WPLift
• WP SmackDown
• SourceWP
• Techwibe
• KevinMuldoon.com
• Cloudways
• Collective Ray
• MyWPExpert
• BlogVault
• Firewall.cx
• Design Wall
• Tidy Repo
• Monster Post
• The Darknet
• WebEmpresa
• KitPloit
• EHacking

WordPress Security Audit Log in your Language!

We need help translating the plugin and the WordPress Security Alerts. Please visit the WordPress Translate Project to translate the plugin and drop us an email on [email protected] to get mentioned in the list of translators below.

• Italian translation by Leonardo Musumeci
• Brazilian Portuguese by Hudson Santos
• German translation by Mourad Louha
• Brazilian Portuguese translation by Hudson Santos
• Spanish translation by the WP Body team
• French translations by Denis Moscato

Activity Log Extensions

• Activity Log for MainWP: This extension allows you to keep a log of MainWP network changes and to view the activity logs of all child sites from one central location – the MainWP dashboard.

Related Links and Documentation

• What is a WordPress Activity Log?
• List of WordPress Activity Log events
• WordPress Multisite Features
• WP Security Audit Log and Reverse Proxy and WAFs Support
• WP Security Audit Log Database Documentation
• Official WP Security Audit Log Plugin Website
• Activity logs for MainWP

Install WP Security Audit Log from within WordPress

1. Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
2. Search for ‘WP Security Audit Log’
3. Install and activate the WP Security Audit Log plugin
4. Allow or skip diagnostic tracking

Install WP Security Audit Log manually

1. Upload the wp-security-audit-log directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the WP Security Audit Log plugin from the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Allow or skip diagnostic tracking