Pastmark can record many kinds of activity in WordPress. This page lists them. You choose which ones are on in User Activity → Events.
What Pastmark saves for each event #
- The date and time (saved in UTC).
- The user who did it, and their roles.
- The IP address and the browser (user agent).
- What happened, and to which item (post, user, plugin and so on).
- The value before and after the change, when there is one.
- The severity: Info, Warning, Error, Critical or Debug.
WordPress events #
| Group | Examples of what is recorded |
|---|---|
| Authentication | Login, logout, failed login, switch user (with the User Switching plugin). |
| Users | New user, profile update, delete, role change, password change, email change, password reset email, application passwords, user custom fields. |
| Content | Posts and pages: create, update, delete, restore, status change, author change, slug, visibility, date, sticky, parent, template and content changes. |
| Comments | New comment, reply, edit, status change, spam, restore, delete. |
| Media | Upload, update, delete, featured image change, site icon change. |
| Plugins | Install, failed install, activate, deactivate, update, delete. |
| Themes | Install, switch, update, delete, theme file edit. |
| Menus | Create, update, delete a menu, update a menu item. |
| Widgets | Widget updates. |
| Settings | Changes to important WordPress settings, and WordPress core updates. |
On multisite networks, Pastmark also records network events. For example: super admin changes, users added to or removed from a site, and network theme changes.
Which settings are recorded #
Pastmark records changes to these settings in Settings:
- Site Title, Tagline, WordPress Address (Site URL), Site Address (Home URL)
- Administration Email Address
- Membership (anyone can register) and New User Default Role
- Timezone, date format, time format, week starts on
- Permalink structure, category base and tag base
- Search engine visibility
- Site language
- Discussion: default comment status, ping status, comment registration and moderation
- Homepage displays, homepage and posts page
- WordPress core automatic updates
What Pastmark does not record #
- Changes to other settings, for example settings of other plugins. Some plugins have their own integration. Read Other plugin integrations.
- Post revisions and auto-drafts.
- Changes in the plugin file editor.
You can also record your own events from code. Read Log your own events.