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WP Admin Audit

by brandtoss · WordPress.org page · Website

v1.2.17 Tested up to WP 7.1 PHP 7.0+

WP Admin Audit has 1,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 15,229 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on August 22, 2026, tested up to WordPress 7.1.

WP Admin Audit at a glance

Active installs
1,000+
Total downloads
15,229
Downloads, last 30 days
available after 30 days of tracking
30-day growth
tracking since September 4, 2026

Is WP Admin Audit well maintained?

Support threads resolved
No open threads
nothing waiting on the WordPress.org forum
WordPress compatibility
Current
tested up to WordPress 7.1, the current release is 7.1

Features

The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.

  • Third-party plugin support: Optional extensions help you capture events happening in other WordPress plugins. See our extension directory for more details
  • Notifications: Select event types or event severity levels (e.g. critical and high) for instant notification via email. You can choose whole user groups (e.g.…
  • Offsite archive / Replication: To increase security and for backup purposes, you can forward the events for storage to an external logging provider
  • Enforce password changes: You can enable a policy that requires users (with specific user roles) to change their passwords regularly. For example…
  • CSV export: Export events, users, and login attempts to CSV files

WP Admin Audit reviews and ratings

6 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.

3.7 out of 5

6 reviews

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  • Crashed Websites

    My God, I really wanted this to work because I needed to track what the users where doing but out of five cites I've installed it on, it has crashed three. That is over 50% failure so its time to search for an alternative.

    wadm
  • The plugin could not be enabled because it caused a critical error

    The plugin could not be enabled because it caused a critical error.

    pawelboc
  • Great and helpful support

    The plugin gives us as a company good insight on what is causing errors on our website by tracking plugin updates. With one of our plugin we actually got a fatal error with WP admin but the team was very responsive and came with a quick update to solve it.

    rridder
  • Wonderful

    Are you wondering how to take control of your WP site? Search no more, this is the plugin that you need; it makes what you need, the way you need. <clap>, <clap>

    HenryGR
  • Love the sensors and event detail!

    One of the better activity logger out there I must say. Love the list of sensors which I hope will keep growing, and I especially love the event details screen. Keep up the good work!

    Bowo
  • Fantastic !

    I just tested this plugin, and it is fantastic. The Search list in the logs works like a charm, besides events, I can search for logs for individual users as well, and also the way we can filter the log is great too ! The only thing that worries me for now, is that in the settings page, when I'm setting the "Keep events for:" is not "registering". After saving the my changes, every other change made on the Settings page, is being shown correctly, but the "keep events for:" field, becomes empty from the number of days I had set it to. The plugin however correctly logs the change, and right now I have it for 1 day. In a day or two perhaps, it will be clear if that part of the settings page actually works. It would be nice if we could manually delete the logs, and also have the ability to export them... Update: Looking at the database values, it seems that the correct value to keep the events for is set (1 day in my test case), so it's a matter of displaying the value in the settings page, and not actually setting it. I am also guessing that to manually delete all the data, is to set the setting to delete all the data when the plugin is uninstalled, and then uninstall and reinstall it again, or manually delete the records from the database, which for many users would be a dangerous task... BTW: Tested on Xampp Localserver, Windows 10, PHP 7.4.x, Chrome Browser, WP 5.9, with many plugins active among them Gutenberg 12.5.0 RC1. Thanks, Nick.

    nick6352683

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Details

WP Admin Audit monitors the security-relevant activities on your site, keeps an event log and tells you when something out of the ordinary happens.

The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.

Tags

  • Activity Log
  • audit log
  • audit trail
  • security audit log
  • user log

More from brandtoss

Version
1.2.17
Last updated
Aug 22, 2026
First published
Feb 1, 2022
Requires WordPress
5.5
Tested up to
7.1
Requires PHP
7.0
Pricing
Free on WordPress.org

WP Admin Audit FAQ

What does WP Admin Audit do?

According to its WordPress.org readme, WP Admin Audit offers Third-party plugin support: Optional extensions help you capture events happening in other WordPress plugins. See our extension directory for more details, Notifications: Select event types or event severity levels (e.g. critical and high) for instant notification via email. You can choose whole user groups (e.g., Offsite archive / Replication: To increase security and for backup purposes, you can forward the events for storage to an external logging provider, Enforce password changes: You can enable a policy that requires users (with specific user roles) to change their passwords regularly. For example and CSV export: Export events, users, and login attempts to CSV files.

How many active installs does WP Admin Audit have?

WordPress.org reports 1,000+ active installs for WP Admin Audit as of September 7, 2026.

Is WP Admin Audit still maintained?

Yes. The last release was on August 22, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Is WP Admin Audit free?

WP Admin Audit is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.