Wp Activity Log

WP Activity Log (formerly WP Security Audit Log) is a comprehensive monitoring and security auditing plugin built for WordPress webmasters, agencies, security teams, and business owners. It provides real-time logging of user logins, content edits, plugin/theme updates, core file changes, system setting modifications, and WooCommerce store activities. Designed to improve accountability and regulatory compliance (such as GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS), the plugin offers detailed event logs containing user information, roles, exact timestamps, and source IP addresses. With built-in real-time email/SMS alert options, active session monitoring, external database storage support, and configurable log retention rules, it acts as an essential security log layer for any WordPress site.

Main Features

• Real-time activity logging — Record over 200+ site events including content changes, page publishing, user profile edits, file uploads, and background updates.
• Comprehensive event metadata — Capture exact timestamps, user accounts, user roles, source IP addresses, and specific URLs modified per event.
• WooCommerce & extension tracking — Detailed activity tracking for WooCommerce stock changes, product updates, order status shifts, price modifications, and payment gateway edits.
• Active user session management — View all logged-in users in real time, inspect active session locations/devices, and terminate unauthorized or suspicious user sessions with a single click.
• Real-time SMS & email notifications — Configure immediate notifications based on custom severity rules (e.g., failed logins, file changes, user role escalations).
• External database & archive storage — Offload audit logs to external MySQL databases, AWS CloudWatch, Logstash, or Syslog servers to maintain performance and data security.
• Search, filter & report generation — Advanced search filters to locate specific events quickly and export PDF/CSV audit reports for client reporting or compliance audits.
• Third-party plugin integration — Native event logging support for popular plugins such as Yoast SEO, MainWP, WPForms, Gravity Forms, Elementor, and BBPress.

Benefits

• Enhances site security & forensics — Quickly identify unauthorized access, suspicious behavior, and malicious user edits before major security breaches occur.
• Increases team accountability — Maintains a clear audit trail across multi-author sites, agencies, and client environments to see exactly who made specific changes.
• Ensures regulatory compliance — Helps websites meet strict compliance standards (GDPR, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, ISO) by keeping verifiable activity logs.
• Speeds up troubleshooting — Instantly locate when and where site errors, broken layouts, or setting misconfigurations were introduced by reviewing historic logs.
• Optimizes database performance — Archiving and external database options keep the primary WordPress database lean while retaining long-term audit histories.

Who is it suitable for?

• WordPress agencies & freelancers managing client websites needing accountable event tracking and change history visibility.
• E-commerce store owners maintaining WooCommerce sites that require strict monitoring of order modifications, inventory changes, and checkout settings.
• Enterprise & corporate portals needing compliance-level security audit logs, external database archiving, and multi-user tracking.
• Membership & multi-author blogs keeping track of contributor submissions, editor approvals, and subscriber account activity.