wplog is a system logging plugin for WordPress.

Currently the plugin is in early development. Bugs may be frequent and things might break down badly if used. Use this plugin in production only if you're ready encounter bugs and missing features.

Logs all kinds of changes in the WordPress system:

• Option value changes
• Authentication
• Posts (including custom post types and meta changes)

More to come.

wplog comes bundled with a $wpdb logger, which keeps logs in a custom database table.

Third party log endpoints are quite easy to create, and only defining a class, a logging method and registering the logger to wplog is needed to make it work (more documentation on this later when the API is finished).

Custom log events can be created to keep log of your customized WP installations (more documentation on this when the API is finished).

During development phase: clone this repo to your wp-plugins directory and run the following inside it

$ composer install && npm install
$ gulp

and then activate in wp-admin. By default the plugin will use the $wpdb logger.

The plugin requires a PHP 7 system. This means WP 4.4 and upwards is supported.

The plugin features code which should update it directly from GitHub releases. If you encounter problems during updates, please create an issue so we can take a look.

Remove the plugin inside wp-admin. If you want to just "delete" it, remove the plugin directory and dispose of the {$prefix}_wplog database table.

If you've used custom log endpoints, you will need to handle removing the data from those endpoints yourself if you uninstall this plugin.

If you decide to keep the logged data as is, and reinstall this plugin later, no conflicts should occur with old and new data.

• Documentation.
• Plain file logging endpoint to plugin core.
• A way to actually view the logs generated using the core endpoints.
• A way to make external logging service logs viewable in wp-admin.
• Define global and endpoint specific settings which should be customizeable.

• Create issues at the issue tracker.
• Send pull requests for fixes and features.

Once the plugin is more mature, we're going to start keeping a list of good logging endpoints that third parties have created.

GPLv3+, see LICENSE.md.