Activity Guard – Real Time Notifier to Slack, Mail for System & User Activity Logs, Forum Tracker and Security

Description

Activity Guard is the ultimate WordPress plugin for tracking user and system activity log, monitoring WooCommerce events, vulnerability scan and securing your site in real-time. With instant notifications via Slack and email, it empowers admins to respond quickly to critical events and ensure site security.

🛍️ Perfect for:

• Enhancing Website Security: Quickly identify and block unauthorized access.
• Admin Management: Track system and multiple users with a detailed activity log.
• Developer Tools: Monitor plugin and theme changes, error log seamlessly.
• Real-Time activity log: Track realtime changes to posts, pages, users, themes, plugins, and more.

• WooCommerce Monitoring: Get real-time updates on sales, orders, stock changes and many more.

  • Stock Notifications
  • Incomplete Order Alerts
  • Coupon Usage Tracking
  • Sales Updates

• Advanced Security Features:

  • IP Blocking – Manual, CIDR notation and Conditional
  • Emengency Shutdown panel to forcefully kickout
  • Cloudflare turnstile for login security
  • Create an HTTP security header layer
  • Protect HTTP headers and WP version
  • Disable Themes & Plugins Editor page
  • Allowed file permission and tracker
  • Monitor WordPress Core file integrity
  • Bot Detection
  • Disable XML-RPC
  • Monitor website visitors
  • File Integrity Monitoring
  • Track Excessive 404 Errors
  • Block vulnerability scanner
  • Blocking TOR network access
  • Monitor Admin area visitors
  • Rate-Limiting Login Attempts
  • Suspicious HTTP Request Alerts
  • Website Cron & Downtime alerts

• Plugin Security Scanner:

  • Automatically scans your entire site plugins, themes, and core files for known vulnerabilities.
  • Detects outdated or vulnerable plugins
  • Flags abandoned plugins (not updated in over a year)
  • Verifies compatibility with your WordPress version
  • Alerts for low install counts and poor ratings

Website | Documentation | Tutorials | Setup video

📈 Why Choose Activity Guard over any other Activity Log Plugin?

Activity Guard is your comprehensive solution for WordPress activity monitoring. With robust security features, WooCommerce integrations, and real-time alerts, it offers unparalleled functionality compared to other plugins.

• Graphical Insights: Visualize activity logs with an intuitive graph view for quick analysis.
• Real-Time Alerts: Receive Slack and email notifications instantly for critical events.
• User-Friendly Interface: Modern UI with easy-to-use controls for all admin levels.
• Unique Features: Advanced options such as file integrity monitoring, bot detection, IP blocking, and more.

Don’t just take our word for it – try Activity Guard yourself and experience the difference!

🔝 Additional Features

Activity & Security

🐞 Plugin Security Scanner: Scan your entire WordPress site including plugins, themes, and core files for potential vulnerabilities. This tool performs a comprehensive series of automated security checks and offers actionable recommendations to enhance your site’s security.

• Detects outdated and vulnerable plugins
• Flags plugins abandoned for over a year
• Verifies compatibility with your current WordPress version
• Alerts for plugins with low active install counts
• Reviews plugin ratings for potential red flags
• Cross-checks known issues against multiple vulnerability databases

⚠️ Activity Log: Instantly track all WordPress actions and user activities.

🔐 Login Event & IP Alerts: Get real-time notifications for logins, logouts, and authentication failures (with IP & location details).

🔄 User Role Change Notification: Receive alerts when a user’s role is modified.

🚫 User Deletion Alert: Know immediately when a user is deleted.

🔐 Lost Password & Reset Notification: Monitor password recovery attempts and changes.

🚪 Force Logout Active Users: Instantly terminate any active user session for security.

Updates & Notifications

🧩 Plugin/Theme Update Alerts: Get notified on Slack and via activity log when plugins or themes are updated (with updater details).

📲 Sales Notification: Instant alerts when a sale occurs.

💸 Coupon Usage Notification: Receive notifications when a coupon code is used.

⏰ Abandoned Order Reminder: Follow up on incomplete orders to recover lost sales.

✏️ Product Editor Notification: Stay updated on any changes to your product listings.

🚚 Shipping Status Updates: Receive real-time shipping status alerts.

📬 Billing & Shipping Address Notification: Get notified on any modifications to customer addresses.

🌟 Daily Review & 🆘 Daily Support Alerts: Get daily Slack notifications for new reviews and support queries.

📊 Weekly Plugin Download Report: Receive a weekly summary of plugin download statistics.

📑 Page/Post & Taxonomy Alerts: Know when pages, posts, or taxonomies are created, updated, or deleted.

🎛 Support Channel Review: Monitor plugin support queries and user reviews.

🖱 Plugin Activation/Deactivation Alert: Receive alerts when plugins are turned on or off.

📲 Login/Registration Alerts: Track new user registrations and login/logout events.

📈 Site Health Notification: Stay informed about critical site health issues.

📉 Product Stock Alerts: Get notified when a product is low on stock or out of stock.

📑 Comment Moderation Notification: Monitor new comments, approvals, declines, or deletions.

💻 Website Health Score: View a real-time rating of your site’s overall health.

🚪 Theme Activation/Deletion Alerts: Receive alerts for theme activations, deletions, or installations.

Security Enhancements

🤖 Manual & Conditional IP Blocker: Manually block specific IPs or automatically block IPs after repeated failed login attempts.

⚙️ Unwanted Script Modification Alert: Detect unauthorized changes to your website’s scripts.

🚧 Advanced Error Log Panel & Error Notifications: Access detailed error logs and get real-time error alerts.

🐞 Enable Debug Mode: Activate debugging mode directly from your site.

🦠 Suspicious HTTP Request Monitoring: Detect SQL injections, XSS attacks, directory traversal, and more.

🦾 Admin Page Access Alerts: Monitor unauthorized attempts to access admin pages.

🈲 Rate-Limiting Login Attempts: Automatically block users after multiple failed login attempts.

⛔ 404 Error Tracking: Get alerted when an IP generates excessive 404 errors.

🦠 Malicious File Upload Detection: Monitor file uploads and block disallowed formats (only allow approved types like image/jpeg, image/png, application/pdf, etc.).

💯 WordPress Core File Integrity: Track modifications to critical core files (e.g., .htaccess, wp-config.php).

🚸 Bot Traffic Detection: Detect and block suspicious bots (e.g., over 200 requests per minute from a single IP).

🛜 Hide WP Version & Remove X-Powered-By: Enhance security by concealing WordPress and PHP version details.

💳 Disable Themes & Plugins Editor: Prevent unauthorized code changes directly from the admin dashboard.

✉️ Email Logging: Capture and monitor all outgoing emails from your site.

🚨 Visitor Traffic List: Log and review detailed visitor traffic data.

⚙️ Integration Alerts: Get instant notifications from forms (e.g., Contact Form 7, FormFlow) when submissions occur.

Additional Administrative & Security Tools

🛠 Easy Maintenance Mode Panel: Quickly toggle maintenance mode on or off.

⚙️ Settings General Modification Alert: Receive alerts for any changes on the General Settings page.

🧭 Navigation Menu Events: Get notified on creation, updates, or deletion of navigation menus.

🗑️ Widget Management Alerts: Know when widgets are added, updated, or deleted.

🔐 Protect HTTP Headers & WP Version: Secure your site by protecting HTTP headers and concealing your WordPress version.

⛔ Disable XML-RPC: Prevent unauthorized access and brute-force attacks.

🔐 Create an HTTP Security Header Layer: Add an extra layer of security with custom HTTP headers.

🌐 Blocking TOR Network Access: Restrict access from TOR networks to reduce anonymous threats.

🛑 Block Vulnerability Scanners: Prevent common vulnerability scanners from probing your site.

Secure your WordPress site and stay informed with Activity Guard – your all-in-one solution for real-time monitoring and activity logging.

Documentation & Support

• Website
• Documentation
• Tutorials
• Setup Video

External services

Slack Webhook Integration

Notifier to Slack allows you to send notifications of all active actions directly to your Slack workspace using Slack webhooks. This feature enables real-time monitoring of plugin activities.

🔧 Webhook Configuration

The plugin uses the Slack incoming webhook URL you provide to send notifications to your Slack channel.

To set up an incoming webhook for your Slack workspace:

1. Create a new app or use an existing one
2. Activate Incoming Webhooks for your app
3. Add a new webhook to your workspace
4. Copy the webhook URL and paste it into the plugin settings

Cloudflare Turnstile

Notifier to Slack also uses Cloudflare Turnstile to enhance security and prevent spam. For more details, please refer to Cloudflare’s privacy policy.

Plugin Security Scanner

This component checks for known vulnerabilities in installed WordPress plugins by analyzing various public and private data sources. It runs a series of automated security checks and provides recommendations.

Features

• Detects outdated plugins
• Flags abandoned plugins (not updated in over a year)
• Checks WordPress version compatibility
• Warns about low install counts
• Analyzes plugin ratings
• Checks against multiple vulnerability databases

Data Sources

• WordPress.org Plugin API
  Used to retrieve plugin metadata such as latest version, last updated date, rating, active installs, etc.
  📄 Privacy Policy

• FunctionDeck API (/wp-json/wpx/v1/plugin-vulnerabilities)
  Custom API endpoint to fetch known vulnerabilities for specific plugins and versions.
  📄 No sensitive data is transmitted. Private API — complies with plugin author’s data policy. Privacy Policy

• WPVulnerability.net
  Public API used to retrieve CVE-based vulnerability data for WordPress plugins.
  📄 Privacy Policy

• National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
  Checks against known CVEs using official NVD data.
  📄 Privacy Policy

Activity Guard does not collect, store, or transmit any sensitive or personal information to performed the scan. All scans and checks are performed locally using public plugin metadata and vulnerability sources.

Freemius

Activity Guard an renamed version of Notifier to Slack utilizes the Freemius SDK to collect limited telemetry data, only upon the user’s explicit confirmation. This data helps us troubleshoot issues efficiently and improve our product for a better user experience.

🔐 Key Points:

1. No Data Collected by Default
   The Freemius SDK does not collect any data by default. Data collection only begins when the user consents via the admin notice displayed in the plugin interface.

2. User Confirmation Required
   Integration of the Freemius SDK does not automatically enable data collection. Data is only gathered after users confirm their consent.

3. Purpose of Data Collection
   The collected data is used solely to enhance the user experience, resolve issues more effectively, and improve the plugin’s functionality.

For more details about Freemius and its data practices, please visit their FAQ page.

Additionally, you can review Functiondeck’s privacy policy for further information.