The Activity Log shows a full list of management events that have occurred on your site.
Type of Activities Recorded
The events stored in your site’s Activity Log include:
- Login attempts by registered site users.
- Published or updated posts and pages.
- Comment submission and management activity.
- Plugin installations, updates, and removals.
- Theme installations, updates, and deletions.
- Settings and options modifications.
- See the complete list.
Viewing Your Site’s Activity Log
To view the Activity Log for your site:
- Go to WordPress.com.
- Click My Sites in the top left corner. Select the Jetpack-connected site for which you’d like to see recent activity.
- Click Stats on the left sidebar.
- Click Activity at the top. You’ll now be able to view the recent events recorded for your site.
Only the most recent 1,000 events are displayed in the Activity Log. The timestamp displayed in the Activity Log matches the timezone you’ve set in your site’s settings (configured from Settings — General in your site’s dashboard).
Rewinding Your Site
With Jetpack’s backup functionality, available in all paid Jetpack subscriptions, you can rewind your site to a previous day — or specific event — shown in your Activity Log.
Learn more about combining the power of Jetpack’s backup system and your site’s Activity Log.
Privacy Information
This feature is activated by default. There is currently no way to deactivate this feature.
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Site Owners / Users To deliver this functionality and record activities around site management, the following information is captured: user email address, user role, user login, user display name, WordPress.com and local user IDs, the activity to be recorded, the WordPress.com-connected site ID of the site on which the activity takes place, the site’s Jetpack version, and the timestamp of the activity. Some activities may also include the actor’s IP address (login attempts, for example) and user agent. |
Site Visitors None. |
| Activity Tracked | |
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Site Owners / Users Recorded site management activities include: login attempts/actions, post and page update and publish actions, comment/pingback submission and management actions, plugin and theme management actions, widget updates, user management actions, and the modification of other various site settings and options. See Complete List. |
Site Visitors None. |
| Data Synced (Read More) | |
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Site Owners / Users All core WordPress and Jetpack option/setting update actions are synced. This includes the current and previous state of a site’s options. Successful and failed login attempts (these include IP address and user agent) are synced. |
Site Visitors Successful and failed login attempts, which will include the actor’s IP address and user agent. |
Data Retention
The retention periods for Activity Log data depend on both the activity itself and the site’s plan.
* Activity present in a site’s activity log but not currently shown to the site owner in the UI.
NOTE: at the end of any retention periods outlined above, activity data is moved to long-term storage and is retained indefinitely. Once in long-term storage, activity data will no longer be visible in a site’s Activity Log.
