Description

CoreActivity is a free plugin for monitoring and logging various activities of the WordPress powered website. The plugin is highly modular, with events registered and controlled by multiple Components.

Currently, plugin has 26 components with a total of 127 events, with direct integration with 12 popular plugins.

WordPress Core Components

Attachments (3 events)
Comments (2 events)
Errors (6 events)
Notifications (4 events)
Options (7 events)
Plugins (5 events)
Posts (3 events)
Terms (3 events)
Themes (2 events)
Users (18 events)
WordPress (5 events)

WordPress Network Only Components

Multisite Network (15 events)
Sitemeta (7 events)

CoreActivity Internal Component

Internal (4 events)

Third-party Plugins Components

bbPress (3 events)
BuddyPress (4 events)
Contact Form 7 (3 events)
DebugPress (9 event)
Duplicate Post (1 event)
Forminator (1 event) / v1.4
GD Forum Manager (4 event) / v1.4
Gravity Forms (6 events)
Jetpack (2 events)
SweepPress (3 event)
User Switching (4 events)
WooCommerce (3 events) / v1.1

Geo Location of IPs

The plugin can locate where the IP making the request is coming from. There are currently three methods available, with more coming in the future:

Online via GeoJS.io website
IP2Location Local Database
MaxMind GeoLite2 Local Database

To use IP2Location, you need to have account on IP2Location, to get the download token, and getting the Lite versions of the database is free. To use MaxMind GeoLite2, you need to have MaxMind account, and the license for downloading the files, it is free for the GeoLite2 database files. Plugin supports use of all Lite databases for both providers, and using the provided token it can keep the database updated on a weekly basis.

More Features

Instant Notifications
Daily Digest Notifications
Weekly Digest Notifications
Log Cleanup Tools
Auto Log Cleanup
Log Live Updates
Define Exceptions

Home and GitHub

Learn more about the plugin: CoreActivity Website
Contribute to plugin development: CoreActivity on GitHub

Screenshots

Plugin Dashboard
Events Control Panel
Log Panel
Log filtered by Component
Log Panel Settings
List of Events

Installation

General Requirements

PHP: 7.3 or newer

PHP Notice

Plugin doesn’t work with PHP 7.2 or older versions.

WordPress Requirements

WordPress: 5.5 or newer

WordPress Notice

Plugin doesn’t work with WordPress 5.4 or older versions.

Basic Installation

Plugin folder in the WordPress plugins should be coreactivity.
Upload coreactivity folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
Plugin adds a new top level menu called ‘CoreActivity’ inside Tools.
Check all the plugin settings before using the plugin.

FAQ

Where can I configure the plugin?: Open the newly added top level CoreActivity panel, and there you will find the ‘Settings’ page.
How is the events detection working?: Plugin uses a system of filters and actions in WordPress (and supported plugins) to hook and process information and log events based on that. If the changes to the website are done by direct database manipulation via queries or custom functions that don’t use established procedures, plugin can’t detect such events.
How are the log entries stored?: Plugin creates three new database tables where all events are registered, and all the events logged.
How much the logging process slows down the website?: If you have all events enabled, the plugin will add 150+ hooks into various elements of WordPress and plugins. That is not too much when compared to 3000+ hooks WordPress runs on average, so it will not have a big impact on WordPress performance. And, it is a good idea to disable events you don’t need to use.
Will coreActivity work if the cache plugin is used?: Yes. But, since cache plugins are bypassing WordPress to serve cached response, some events will be affected when the cached response is returned. To learn more, check out this article: CoreActivity and Cache Plugins.
How precise GEO Location is?: If the database for GEO location is regularly updated, locating the IP to the country is most likely close to 100% precise. When it comes to more detailed location within the country, that is not always precise, and it depends on the country.

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Contributors & Developers

“coreActivity: Activity Logging plugin for WordPress” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Milan Petrovic

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Changelog

1.4 (2023.11.15)

New: component: GD Forum Manager plugin, with 4 events
New: component: Forminator plugin, with 1 event
New: logs panel view support for the object by ID or name
New: store statistics for each event on the daily base
New: filter events by the plugin it originated from
Edit: optimized logs panel views processing and matching
Edit: log item dialog view updated rendering for expandability
Edit: improved Event view display for the Logs panel
Edit: Dev4Press Library 4.4 Beta
Fix: several small issues with the Live Logs updates
Fix: object filtering for logs panel was unfinished
Fix: notifications property not found for new events

1.3 (2023.11.06)

New: geolocation with the use of MaxMind GeoLite2 database
New: MaxMind GeoLite2 support for weekly downloading of Lite database
New: option to hide the Object column from the Logs
New: plugin dashboard widget for the GEO Location information
New: component DebugPress expanded with two new events
New: logs panel option to filter by country based on geolocation
New: logs panel popup dialog with overview of all event data split in tabs
Edit: changes in the order for some columns on the log panel
Edit: expanded SweepPress sweeping job logged data
Edit: various improvements to the Logs panel styling
Edit: improved method for running the GEO Location database update
Edit: Dev4Press Library 4.4 Beta
Fix: initial GEO Location database update is not triggered properly

1.2 (2023.10.30)

New: database: logs table has new country_code column
New: logging: options for logging country code and other location information
New: geolocation settings: choose between online and IP2Location database
New: geolocation with the use of IP2Location database
New: IP2Location support for weekly downloading of Lite database
New: registered weekly maintenance background job
Edit: Dev4Press Library 4.4 Beta
Fix: logs override filtering not working properly always
Fix: all CRON handlers registered as filters and not actions
Fix: weekly digest scheduled to run each day

1.1 (2023.10.16)

New: component: WooCommerce plugin, with 3 events
New: notifications component: support for WooCommerce WC_Email logging
New: logs panel action to stop logging some of the object type by value
New: logs panel metadata column as alternative to the metadata row
New: logs panel with added views for context and method
New: tool for bulk control of events notifications status
New: more settings related to object types exclusions
Edit: sitemeta component: default object type is now sitemeta
Edit: many improvements to the Logs class for expandability
Edit: few improvements to the base Component class
Edit: few improvements to the Logs table and rendering
Edit: Dev4Press Library 4.4
Fix: logs filtering in some cases not working properly
Fix: some events not always obeying exclusion conditions
Fix: few issues with the content terms relationship change event

1.0.5 (2023.10.05)

Edit: Dev4Press Library 4.3.5
Fix: admin pages header IP display may be broken if IP is unknown

1.0.4 (2023.10.03)

Edit: more changes related to PHPCS and WPCS validation
Edit: Dev4Press Library 4.3.4

1.0.3 (2023.09.26)

Edit: more changes related to PHPCS and WPCS validation
Edit: Dev4Press Library 4.3.3

1.0.2 (2023.09.25)

Edit: Dev4Press Library 4.3.2

1.0.1 (2023.09.20)

Edit: more changes related to PHPCS and WPCS validation
Edit: Dev4Press Library 4.3.1

1.0 (2023.09.06)

First official release