Introducing Activity

A complete record of everything that happens on your site.

October 30, 2018

Filipe Varela

Knowing what’s going on behind the scenes of your site is key to engagement and security.  Who published a post? What comments need to be approved? When was a plugin activated or deactivated? What images were added to a specific page?

Now, there’s a new tab in WordPress.com where you can see all your site’s activity outlined in an organized, readable way: It’s called Activity, because monitoring your site should be as simple as possible.

Activity shows you a chronological list of all the changes and updates to your site. It’s useful for site owners who want to keep an eye on the big picture of their site, as well as for admins on larger sites with multiple contributors.

Activity shows you things like:

  • Published or updated posts and pages.
  • Comment submission and management activity.
  • Settings and options modifications.
  • Login attempts by registered site users.
  • Plugin installations, updates, and removals.
  • Theme switches, installations, updates, and deletions.
  • See the complete list of activities for WordPress.com and Jetpack sites.

Head to Activity right now, and you’ll be able to see your site’s 20 most recent changes and updates. On WordPress.com or Jetpack sites with a paid plan you’ll see events from the last 30 days, and if you have the Business or Professional plan respectively, you’ll see events from the last year.

All sites with a paid plan have the added ability to filter activities by type and time range so you can quickly find the information you’re looking for.

To keep things scannable, sequential events of the same type are grouped in a single item — expand it to see details for all of the collected actions.

Activity is also a great place for Jetpack subscribers to investigate site downtime or bugginess. See what changes happened around the time of the issue, and use the details to focus your troubleshooting and get back up and running, fast.

You can also view your list of activities on the WordPress mobile apps.

Stay up to date on the latest theme and plugin updates

For sites with plugins and uploaded themes, keeping them up to date and knowing what was updated when are key to security and stability. Activity not only shows you all the details in one place, but lets Jetpack and WordPress.com Business plan subscribers update themes and plugins directly from the Activity tab.

We’re constantly striving to be better

Give Activity a try on your sites and let us know if you have any feedback — we’d love to hear it! Please leave a comment below or open an issue in our GitHub repository.

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  1. faeriefiles53 Oct 30th at 4:18 pm

    Thanks for the information. I appreciate all you do.

    Liked by 23 people

  2. Tomas Oct 30th at 4:47 pm

    Looks interesting. Loaded it and saw something that could maybe get a bit of attention: I made a post containing galleries of pictures loaded from an external site. I added a caption to many of them, which means each caption is listed as separate image edit. Maybe this could be grouped up the same way as the upload is (listing “12 attachments uploaded) to something like “12 attachments updated”?

    Liked by 22 people

    • Filipe Varela Oct 30th at 5:16 pm

      Thanks for giving Activity a spin, Tomas! The scenario you mention is most certainly a great example of activities that should be grouped. We’ll add it to our list of improvements. We appreciate your feedback.

      Liked by 14 people

  3. whippetwisdom Oct 30th at 5:53 pm

    Thank you for this, it looks very useful and yes, if the Alt text and Description entries per photograph can be grouped, that would be brilliant.

    Liked by 16 people

  4. Kate Oct 30th at 5:57 pm

    You know what would really help? My wordpress website loading in less than 10 minutes on a fast & secure connection, so I can post a short post asap. WordPress really going from bad to worse these days – despite fast connection, I had to read your self-promoting crap and still need to wade through screens I don’t need until I can post an item which should be up within a minute after logging in.

    Liked by 17 people

  5. nundinee Oct 30th at 6:10 pm

    Thanks 👍

    Liked by 12 people

  6. Rafael Pinto Oct 30th at 8:32 pm

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    Liked by 10 people

  7. lutfiyarawat Oct 30th at 9:56 pm

    Thanks for this information….much appreciated

    Liked by 8 people

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    Wonderful feature and User Experience. Thank you WordPress!

    Liked by 5 people

  9. jeremyjameshongkong Oct 31st at 12:44 am

    Updated the tried this, it’s comprehensive for sure. Good to track what’s going on. Thank you

    Liked by 4 people

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    Liked by 6 people

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    Liked by 6 people

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  15. nikahdestiny Oct 31st at 9:46 am

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    Liked by 6 people

  16. Biblicon Oct 31st at 11:04 am

    Good idea, I like it. NOT `awesome’, I hate that horrible ugly word, but on the contrary very good, an excellent idea. Congratulations.

    Liked by 6 people

  17. nyamwezi Oct 31st at 12:57 pm

    Thanks for the update and as always, for the great service:-)

    Liked by 8 people

  18. insomniacafied Oct 31st at 3:09 pm

    Thank you so much! I personally found it so much helpful since i just started

    Liked by 4 people

  19. blesspetro Oct 31st at 6:00 pm

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    Liked by 5 people

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    Liked by 7 people

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    Yet, I still cannot find a way to block the spammy blogs. I am a paid subscriber, yet I feel I have no control, despite adding countless keywords in the comment moderation queue. No. If WordPress can’t implement something as simple as a block button, I’m out. WordPress is too infiltrated with spam.

    Liked by 7 people

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    Liked by 5 people

  23. amyaglow Oct 31st at 8:19 pm

    Thank you

    Liked by 5 people

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    Liked by 5 people

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    Liked by 5 people

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    Liked by 5 people

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    Liked by 6 people

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    Liked by 6 people

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    Liked by 6 people

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    Liked by 6 people

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    Liked by 6 people

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    Thanks for sharing

    Liked by 5 people

  33. deepanilamani Nov 3rd at 6:40 pm

    Thank you for letting us know of the latest theme and plug in details 🙂

    Liked by 7 people

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    Liked by 6 people

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    Liked by 7 people

  36. Lillith Lette Nov 6th at 6:32 am

    Love It! Thanx WordPress!

    Liked by 7 people

  37. Tomas Nov 6th at 2:05 pm

    Just an idea I got now when I was looking back on something: in the ‘Conversations’ section of WP Reader, could we get an option to sort the posts by when -I- commented, instead of when -anyone- last commented on a post?

    Liked by 9 people

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