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This plugin hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
WP User Activity
By John James Jacoby
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Description
WP User Activity is the best way to log activity in WordPress. Activity can be sorted, filtered, and viewed per-user, along with session data for logged in users and IP addresses & user-agents for others.
Activity is broken down into object “Types” and “Actions.” Types are the objects being acted upon, and actions are what is being done to them. If you’re familiar with BuddyPress, this should feel pretty comfortable.
Examples
Admin logged in 2 minutes ago.
Admin created the post "Hello World" 33 seconds ago.
Admin created the topic "I need help!" 5 days ago.
Available Actions
Attachments (Upload, Edit, Delete)
Comments (Create, Pending, Approve, Unaprove, Trash, Untrash, Spam, Unspam, Delete)
Core (Update, Auto-update)
Exports (Download)
Menus (Create, Update, Delete)
Plugins (Install, Update, Activate, Deactivate, Edit, Delete)
Posts (Create, Update, Delete, Trash, Untrash, Spam, Unspam, Future)
Settings (Update)
Terms (Create, Update, Delete)
Themes (Customize, Install, Update, Activate, Edit, Delete)
Users (Login, Login Failure, Logout, Register, Update, Delete)
Widgets (Update, Delete)
Also checkout
WP Chosen
WP User Profiles
WP User Avatars
WP User Groups
WP Pretty Filters
WP Media Categories
WP Term Authors
WP Term Colors
WP Term Families
WP Term Icons
WP Term Order
WP Term Visibility
Screenshots
The log
Edit activity
Installation
Download and install using the built in WordPress plugin installer.
Activate in the “Plugins” area of your admin by clicking the “Activate” link.
No further setup or configuration is necessary.
FAQ
Does this work with custom post types & taxonomies?
Yes. It will work perfectly with all post-types & taxonomies that define their own labels. Ones that don’t are mocked using the post type ID.
Can I create custom activity types & actions?
Yes. The autoloader can be filtered, so adding new object types is as simple as:
add_filter( 'wp_get_default_user_activity_types', function( $types = array() ) {
$types[] = 'Your_New_Type'; // class that extends WP_User_Activity_Type
return $types;
} );
The WP_User_Activity_Type_Taxonomy class is a good example to start with, if you’d like to create your own actions. It registers simple create/update/delete methods, with easy to understand messages & integrations.
Does this create new database tables?
No. It uses the WordPress custom post-type and metadata APIs.
Does this modify existing database tables?
No. All of the WordPress core database tables remain untouched.
Where can I get support?
Forums: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-user-activity/
Where can I find documentation?
http://github.com/stuttter/wp-user-activity/
Reviews
clutters the wp_posts database
ebuege
September 15, 2021
as @pavelword says on August 30, 2021
I don´t write reviews often, and almost never negative ones. But this plugin is coded in such a way that it logs the user activity into the wp_posts table. The same table, that you want to have as clean as possible will end up absolutely taken over by this plugin. Question to the developer: why doesn´t your plugin use separate table? To understand: I inherited a wordpress instance, where the wp_posts database grew to be over 250 MB, of the 575.652 entries were 560.000 entries generated by this plugin! This will of course affect the overall speed. It has taken me hours to find why my wp_posts table is so bloated. for anyone searching: this plugin adds new rows into the following table: wp_posts column: post-type entry: activity
my review: After installing that plugin and I write a .httpdocs to block ousite logins at wp-admin folder it cant works. everyday hundreds of activity I think the developer use th secret user names to show us activity works fine.. I THINK NO
clutters the wp_posts database
pavelword
August 30, 2021
I don´t write reviews often, and almost never negative ones.
But this plugin is coded in such a way that it logs the user activity into the wp_posts table. The same table, that you want to have as clean as possible will end up absolutely taken over by this plugin.
Question to the developer:
why doesn´t your plugin use separate table?
To understand:
I inherited a wordpress instance, where the wp_posts database grew to be over 250 MB, of the 575.652 entries were 560.000 entries generated by this plugin!
This will of course affect the overall speed.
It has taken me hours to find why my wp_posts table is so bloated.
for anyone searching:
this plugin adds new rows into the following table:
wp_posts
column:
post-type
entry:
activity
Great for logging user activity, yours (admin’s) or other users
Knut Sparhell
November 12, 2020
Works fine, integrates with WP User Profile. Missing a way to trash old entries automatically, but no match for a developer to add.
Add auto trashing after x weeks and it’s get 5 stars.
Can’t delete activity log
artmaxi
August 16, 2017
My DB has now 900 MB of this plugin entries, and there is no way to delete records
keeps me in track
faospark
April 25, 2017
often than not i forget the activity that i did especially when working on a multisite. this helps a lot and also very very fast and uses wp’s native UI and even language where in my boss can actually understand. so this one i think is a must use
very fast
Mike V. Gorbunov
April 5, 2017
According to my Plugin Performance Profiler tests it’s the fastest log plugin.
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Contributors & Developers
“WP User Activity” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.Contributors
John James Jacoby
Stuttter
“WP User Activity” has been translated into 6 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “WP User Activity” into your language.Interested in development?
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Changelog
2.2.0
Fix filtering by user
Fix compatibility with WP User Profiles
Fix untrashing individual items
Fix an incompatibility with ACF
2.1.0
Fix user not being linked to “Logout” action
2.0.2
Add escaping to admin area row output
Return IDs in useful places for easier extending
1.1.0
Remove all actions from transition_post_status to avoid infinite loops
1.0.0
Official public release
Add support for “pending” comments
Improved mu-plugins location support
0.2.0
Support for User Profiles 0.2.0
0.1.10
Add missing action for ‘plugin delete’
0.1.9
Support for WP User Profiles 0.1.9
0.1.8
Fix conflict causing widgets not to save
0.1.7
Fix list-table issue causing fatal errors
0.1.6
Prevent user profile activity from leaking out
0.1.5
Update column names
Add support for WP User Profiles
0.1.4
Improve compatibility with other plugins
0.1.3
Add menu humility filter
Improve capability checks
0.1.2
Improve admin styling
Add metadata callbacks
0.1.1
Improve admin styling
0.1.0
Initial release
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Version 2.2.0
Last updated 4 months ago
Active installations 200+
WordPress version
5.2 or higher
Tested up to 5.8.13
PHP version
7.2 or higher
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Stuttter
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