InkaTrace for Activity & Audit Log

Description

InkaTrace for Activity & Audit Log is a practical and lightweight WordPress activity monitoring plugin built for administrators, site managers, developers, agencies, schools, organizations, and businesses that need clear visibility into what is happening inside a WordPress site.

Whether you need a simple activity log for daily monitoring or a more structured audit trail for security review, content oversight, and operational accountability, InkaTrace helps you monitor important user actions, login activity, and system-related changes from one centralized admin interface.

InkaTrace is designed to provide a focused audit workflow without unnecessary complexity. The free edition covers essential monitoring and investigation needs, while the Pro edition expands the workflow with deeper compliance, reporting, export, and retention capabilities.

Free Activity Log Features

• Activity Log Table
  Review WordPress activity in a centralized log table with filters, search, and saved presets for faster daily review.

• Incident Notes
  Add internal notes and basic incident status directly inside log detail so your team can keep investigation context in one place.

• Dashboard Activity Widget
  Monitor recent site activity directly from the WordPress dashboard.

• Failed Login Monitoring
  Track failed login attempts with warning and security-focused severity labels for faster awareness of suspicious patterns.

• Optional Auto-Purge Controls
  Set log retention preferences to help keep the activity database manageable over time.

• Optional IP Geolocation Consent
  Enrich public IP information from the admin area only when explicit consent is enabled.

• Simple Access Control
  Administrators always have access, with an optional editor-view setting for teams that need limited visibility.

• Lightweight Admin Workflow
  Use a focused interface built for practical audit review without overloading the dashboard.

Pro Edition Expands the Workflow With

• Compliance reports for summary-based audit review.
• Forensic timeline for deeper investigation by date, user, IP, and event flow.
• Extended retention, archive, and restore workflow for long-term audit history.
• More advanced export and investigation workflow for teams that need deeper review.

Why Choose InkaTrace?

• Focused and practical for day-to-day WordPress monitoring.
• Security-aware workflow for suspicious login and activity review.
• Designed for real admin use with filtering, notes, and investigation support.
• Flexible enough to start lightweight and grow into deeper audit workflow with Pro.

Perfect For

• Site administrators who need visibility into user and system activity.
• Agencies managing client WordPress sites.
• Schools and organizations that need accountability logs.
• Businesses that want a simple audit trail for WordPress operations.
• Teams that need login monitoring and investigation notes without an overly complex system.

Privacy

This plugin stores activity log records locally in your WordPress database.

For security auditing purposes, log entries can include:
* User account information related to the action.
* IP addresses.
* User agent / device strings.
* Log content describing the recorded action.

External Services

This plugin can call external IP geolocation services when an administrator enables IP geolocation consent in Settings and then opens IP details in the Activity Log.

Services used:
* https://ipapi.co/
* https://ipwho.is/

Data sent:
* The visitor IP address stored in the activity log.

Purpose:
* To display geographic/network context for audit and security investigation.

These requests are optional, only triggered from the admin UI, and never run on front-end page loads.

This plugin also includes an optional support contact form in the admin settings page.

Data sent when an administrator uses the support form:
* The message subject entered by the user.
* The message body entered by the user.
* The optional email address entered by the user.
* The site URL.
* The installed plugin version.

Recipient:
* pt.inkamediautama@gmail.com

Purpose:
* To receive support requests, bug reports, feature requests, and product feedback initiated by the site administrator.

This request is only sent when the administrator manually submits the support form.