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WP Activity Log
The ultimate digital paper trail for your WordPress site.
HealthyGrowing
94/100
Users value the deep logging and responsive support despite some limitations in the free version.
Active installs
~350,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 300k+
Rating
4.7★
480 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+134%
Growing fast
1,331 → 3,112 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +134% in the last year
1,331/day a year ago→3,112/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWP Activity Log is well-regarded as a comprehensive site-monitoring and security tool for WordPress, praised especially for its detailed logging and responsive support, with the only notable caveat being a gap in free-tier logging coverage compared to some alternatives.
What people like
- +Responsive, attentive support team that engages with user issues and follows up×9
- +Detailed, comprehensive activity logs covering logins, user actions, content changes, plugin/theme updates, and database changes×5
- +Useful for managing and auditing multiple sites and collaborators×3
- +Serves as a practical security tool, including detection of brute-force and failed login attempts×2
- +Premium version offers enterprise-friendly features such as Composer support and AWS CloudWatch integration
- +Free version is functional and well-designed on its own×2
Common complaints
- −Failed login attempts were not logged in at least one user's setup, where a competing plugin (Simple History) handled this correctly
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.62★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 23%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 480 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-06-01★★★★★Awesome team behind a great productnickwells041-shot
- 2026-04-14★★★★★Very Useful Plugin with Great Supportheadsdont
- 2026-03-18★★★★★Useful plugin with great supportikoberg1-shot
- 2026-03-13★★★★★Great plugin and excellent supportgiugent1-shot
- 2026-02-26★★★★★Very good and efficient supportbru09
- 2026-02-18★★★★★Great supportluthermax
- 2026-02-17★★★★★Very good pluginDarkNova
- 2026-02-17★★★★★I like it!jrpstonecarver
- 2026-02-11★★★★★Great plugin and excellent supportJithin T
- 2026-01-23★★★★★Great plugin for keeping track of changesskht
Releases
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the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
4,103
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
1,797
Prior 7-day baseline
2,178
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
33,638
Mean release-day peak (30d)
28,083
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
+128.3%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
11%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.83
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
89%
5★ share in analyzed sample
23%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-23%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.68 → 4.62★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered