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WP Security Audit Log

By WP White Security

Description

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

WP White Security builds high-quality niche WordPress security & admin plugins such as Password Policy Manager for WordPress, a plugin with which you can ensure all your users use strong passwords.

Browse our list of WordPress plugins that can help you better manage and improve the security of your WordPress websites and users.

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:

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 support@wpwhitesecurity.com to get mentioned in the list of translators below.

Activity Log add-ons for third party plugins

  • Activity Log for MainWP: This MainWP 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.
  • Activity Log add-on for WPForms: Install this add-on with the WP Security Audit Log to keep a log of changes in WPForms plugin, forms, form files, entries (leads) and more.

Related Links and Documentation

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

Screenshots

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    The WordPress activity logs from where the site administrator can see all the user and site changes.
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    See who is logged in to your WordPress and manage users sessions with Users Sessions Management
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    The plugin settings from where site administrator can configure generic plugin settings such as reverse proxy support, who can manage the plugin etc.
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    The WordPress audit trail settings from where you can configure automatic pruning of alerts, which timestamp should be used, how many 404 requests should be logged and more.
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    Configuring WordPress email and SMS alerts with the Email & SMS Notifications module
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    Search in the WordPress security audit log with the use filters to fine tune the search results.
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    The Enable/Disable events section from where Administrators can disable or enable activity log events.
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    The Audit Log Viewer of a Super Admin in a WordPress multisite network installation with the Site selection drop down menu.
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    WP Security Audit Log is integrated with the built-in revision system of WordPress, thus allowing you to see what content changes users make on your WordPress posts, pages and custom post types. For more information read Keep Record of All WordPress Content Changes
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    Mirror the WordPress activity log to an external solution such as Syslog or Papertrail to centralize logging, ensure logs are always available and cannot be tampered with in the unfortunate case of a hack attack.
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FAQ

Support and Documentation

Please refer to our Support & Documentation pages for all the technical information and support documentation on the WP Security Audit Log plugin.

Reviews

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Upgraded to Premium and never looked back

April 20, 2020
I had this running for a quite some time and got tired of manually going through the database to see if a logged in user had visited a specific post or not. So I upgraded just for that, but man I got a whole lot more. There's a daily summary mail pointing out highlights, like changed code (nice!) as well as a list of IP's that tried to log in but failed. It's a daily reminder that there's quite a few people out there trying to wreak havoc on your site. And now they also have a free 2FA plugin that I have running for a week or so and had no issues with it so far. I'm going to promote the hell out of 2FA for all our users and I'm really happy these guys made implementation so easy. Get this plugin, upgrade to premium and don't forget the 2FA plugin. These guys deserve it, and so do you.
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Flexible Plugin with Great Customer Service

April 9, 2020
We recently started a trial of this plugin, and subsequently purchased, as it provided virtually everything we were looking for, in particular, a full audit trail of page views and change events. Customer service response times were very fast, and useful (no scripted answers!). Further, I appreciate the flexibility the plugin provides in terms of reducing log pollution, and easily filtering by person, event, etc - AND allowing you to store the auditing data elsewhere (this doesn't need to be on the fastest storage, we can happily store our logs on a larger external database, which makes a whole lot of sense, and I love that they allow this!) Highly recommended, would buy again.
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Does exactly what it says on the tin.

March 31, 2020
I needed a way to track when users were logged in multiple times from different locations, and this worked well. There's clearly a lot of development work put in, and it's really flexible. Super easy to use, too.
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Must have for professionals

March 30, 2020
If you need to know what is going on under the hood - this is your audit and logging plugin. Tracks everything and more including Woocommerce & Co.
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Did not think I needed it – glad I have it

March 12, 2020
I started with just wanting to see who was logged onto the website, mainly for development purposes. Then decided I would like to see who was doing what for the purpose of maintenance and updates. That all works fantastic. What I was not prepared for was to find out that my website was under attack. Had I not installed this plugin I would never have known that until too late. The support on this plugin has been really good. I have now installed a WAF and security plugin.
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Contributors & Developers

“WP Security Audit Log” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

“WP Security Audit Log” has been translated into 4 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “WP Security Audit Log” into your language.

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Changelog

4.0.3 (2020-04-16)

Release notes: Update 4.0.3 – New bbPress add-on & improved WooCommerce activity logs

  • BREAKING CHANGE

    • Individual add-ons (pre 2018) will not be supported anymore.

  • New features

  • New activity log event IDs

    • 9105: The stock quantity of a product was changed due to an order.
    • 9085: The WooCommerce setting “Selling location(s)” was changed.
    • 9086: List of excluded countries to sell to in WooCommerce was changed.
    • 9087: List of countries to sell to in WooCommerce was changed.
    • 9088: The WooCommerce setting “Shipping location(s)” was changed.
    • 9090: The WooCommerce setting “Default custom location” was changed.
    • 9091: The “Cart page” in the WooCommerce settings was changed.
    • 9092: The “Checkout page” in the WooCommerce settings was changed.
    • 9093: The “My Account page” in the WooCommerce settings was changed.
    • 9094: The “Terms & conditions page” in the WooCommerce settings was changed.

Refer to the activity logs for WooCommerce for more details on WooCommerce support.

  • Improvements

    • Drastically improved the coverage of the WooCommerce activity log sensor.
    • WooCommerce sensor now detects changes done from the new interface (WooCommerce Admin).
    • Event 9029 (WooCommerce store base location change) now reports both the old and new address.
    • Updated WooCommerce sensor to detect all the changes in the tax options (event IDs 9078 – 9081).
    • Changed the event type from “Modified” to “Renamed” in the events where in which the object is renamed.
    • “Plugins” is reported instead of a username when a change is done automatically by a plugin.
    • Improved the activity logs external database connection test during connection setup.
    • Removed obsolete code which was only used in previous versions from the defaults.php file.
    • Improved event ID 2055 (deleted custom field) so it is not reported when a custom field is deleted autoamtically due to the post being deleted.
    • Removed redundant filters wsal_event_type_text and wsal_event_object_text.
    • Moved 10 plugin settings to the WordPress options table as part of the plugin improvement project.
    • External database connector now reports actual MySQL error for improved troubleshooting.
    • All the changes done to a bbPress forum or topic are reported, even when done at the same time.

  • Bug fixes

    • Event ID 8808 not firing when Cornerstone article setting is enabled or disabled in a post.
    • Event ID 9066 not firing when the expiry date of a WooCommerce coupon is changed.
    • Plugin reporting event ID 2001 instead of 5019 when a plugin automatically creates posts.
    • Fixed a minor compatibility issue in the Hide plugin functionality (support ticket).
    • Event ID 9063 reported instead of event ID 9071 when reporting a WooCommerce coupon change.
    • Events ID 1005 (multiple sessions detected) and 1007 (user terminated another user’s session) were only working when frontend sensor was enabled.
    • Activity logs view buttons link to first site on network instead of network dashboard on multisite network.
    • Error reported when the role property was undefined.
    • Fixed a PHP 7.3 compatibility issue (support ticket).

Please refer to the complete plugin change log for more detailed information about what was new, improved and fixed in previous versions of the WP Security Audit Log plugin.

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