Title: Perfect system log plugin
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Perfect system log plugin

 *  [pete2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pete2/)
 * (@pete2)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perfect-system-log-plugin/)
 * Anyone heard of any kind of proper system logging plugin for wordpress? I have
   searched but not found any — there are lots of all kinds of statistics plugins
   around that can be done on a webserver-level too, but no plugins that I know 
   of that would utilize wordpress’s action hook system to actually log user activities
   within a system and display them to the administrators at least. Many collaborative
   blogs would benefit one, not least as a poor version control system to see who
   has changed what during last days, and the demand may increase due to new roles
   and capabilities fuctionalities. I guess it would be fairly easy to write for
   somebody who has up-to-date action hook knowledge.
 * Two relevant links could be [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/940](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/940)(
   two years old!) and [http://drupal.org/node/3944](http://drupal.org/node/3944),
   [http://drupal.org/node/300](http://drupal.org/node/300) and perhaps [http://drupal.org/node/11564](http://drupal.org/node/11564)
   even though that is pretty basic and done by many statistics plugins already.

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 *  Thread Starter [pete2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pete2/)
 * (@pete2)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perfect-system-log-plugin/#post-293541)
 * Hola, as I didn’t find any, I developed a system event logging plugin. It’s a
   terrible hack as I’m not a coder, so pls proceed with care. After activation 
   it
    – lists an system event log menu under dashboard (writes log data to wp-content/
   systemlog.txt) with timestamps, acting users and item edit links – sends email
   to admin when anyone saves a draft of a post (speeds publishing of posts in moderated
   blogs)
 * Following texts give a hint of what actions are logged:
    ‘Created new category
   no. xx’ ‘Deleted category no. xx’ ‘Created new comment no. xx’ ‘Received pingback
   comment no. xx’ ‘Received trackback comment no. xx’ ‘Edited comment no. xx’ ‘
   Changed comment no. xx, status: xxx’ ‘Deleted comment no. xx’ ‘Tried to comment
   on closed post no. xx’ ‘Tried to comment on nonexisting post no. xx’ ‘Tried to
   comment on draft no. xx’ ‘Comment flooding triggered, interval xx s’ ‘Created
   new post/page no. xx’ ‘Changed from private to published post no. xx’ ‘Published
   post no. xx’ ‘Published from phone: post no. xx’ ‘Edited post/page no. xx’ ‘Deleted
   post/page no. xx’ ‘Profile change for user xxxx’ ‘User lost password’ ‘Change
   password query mailed to user xxxx’ ‘Password reset for user xxxx’ ‘New user 
   registered: no. xx’ ‘Logged in: xxxx’ ‘Logged out.’ ‘Changed template theme to
   xxxxx’
 * As you can see I implemented pretty much all action hooks that may be worth logging
   and are available to plugins?
 * The code is downloadable from
    >> [http://pastebin.com/470738](http://pastebin.com/470738)(
   tested only on wp 1.5.2 on *nix)
 * Paste it to new some.php file in plugins/ (remember not to leave any enter after
   closing tag in the file), and activate. It may work on most *nix environments(
   uses tail and tac in quite a horrible way to display the log under dashboard 
   as I didn’t put it in the database). On a busy blog just comment away the actions
   you don’t want to log, such as comment_post that would otherwise fill your log.
 * Even though this particular implementation is a terrible hack (I don’t know if
   it even had some security problems), I very much like this kind of system event
   logging functionality on a multi-user blog and would definitely like to see a
   proper implementation in the wordpress core – this is such an improvement to 
   be able to see what really is happening in your blog admin.
 * As I’m not going to mantain this plugin, this forum thread will be the only place
   in the net to announce it now — maybe someone will find it someday and find it
   nice, or get a spark to develop a proper system event logger. I just wanted to
   share this with you.

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