Title: What The WP?
Author: Will West
Published: <strong>June 13, 2015</strong>
Last modified: February 5, 2018

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# What The WP?

 By [Will West](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tsewlliw/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/what-the-wp.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/what-the-wp/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/what-the-wp/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/what-the-wp/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/what-the-wp/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/what-the-wp/)

## Description

Logs important WordPress lifecycle events like post status changes and plugin activation.

Enhances `WP_DEBUG` mode with extra information about actions taken.

Automatically sends events to New Relic

## Installation

 1. Upload `what-the-wp.zip` via the `upload` tab in WordPress admin
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## FAQ

  Installation Instructions

 1. Upload `what-the-wp.zip` via the `upload` tab in WordPress admin
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

  Where are my error logs?

Depends on your system. Great places to start are `/var/log/apache2/$VHOST.error.
log` and `/var/log/nginx/$VHOST.error.log`.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“What The WP?” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Will West ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tsewlliw/)

[Translate “What The WP?” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/what-the-wp)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/what-the-wp/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/what-the-wp/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/what-the-wp/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/what-the-wp/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.5

 * updated compat
 * added user lifecycle events

#### 0.4

 * confirmed compat with 4.4 core
 * fixed bug handling theme updates

#### 0.3

 * handle bulk plugin and theme upgrades as multiple events
 * make event auditing pluggable via wtwp_audit_event action
 * always collect current user ID

#### 0.2

 * audit upgrade events
 * send audit events to newrelic if available

#### 0.1

 * its alive

## Meta

 *  Version **0.5**
 *  Last updated **8 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.2.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.9.29**
 * Tags
 * [audit](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/audit/)[devops](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/devops/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/what-the-wp/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Will West ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tsewlliw/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/what-the-wp/)

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