Audit Trail
by John Godley · Admin & Utilities
Also makes 11 other plugins · 2.1M+ installs across the portfolio →
Audit Trail is a plugin to keep track of what is going on inside your blog by monitoring administration functions.
41 health vs 54 average across 3,790 Admin & Utilities plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Long abandoned. No update in 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.35, well behind 6.8.
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 3196 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
528
now · peak 532
Directory rank vs rivals
wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Update activity
How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
9.7y ago
latest release · v1.3
9
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 83% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “10K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2015-03-19 · 1,479 observations
Estimated value
What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.
Est. annual revenue
Est. acquisition value
No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price.
Details
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ Lembit Kivisik10.6y ago
As the title says: simple and useful.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ mageguild11.9y ago
Good idea, but all it shows is that a user saved a post. It does not say which page or what was changed.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ phatjay12.7y ago
Author is using load_textdomain instead of load_plugin_textdomain function. This may break behavior of WordPress, because some filters and actions won’t be executed anymore.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ phatjay12.7y ago
Author is using load_textdomain instead of load_plugin_textdomain function. This may break behavior of WordPress, because some filters and actions won’t be executed anymore.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ toddleweb12.7y ago
Easy to get going quickly and monitors most things needed for a membership site. Like that its multisite and kept current to the latestWP release.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ phatjay12.7y ago
Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home/www/example.com/wp-content/plugins/audit-trail/models/auditor.php on line 337 Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home/www/example.com/wp-content/plugins/audit-trail/models/auditor.php on line 240 NUFF SAID!
Read on wp.org ↗
Latest updates
via wp.org changelogRecent releases and news for this plugin
- — Version 1.3 Switch to JSON when saving data Fix creation of database on activation 1.3
- — Version 1.2.4 Don’t include revisions in a post update log entry Track plugin activation/deactivation 1.2.4
- — Version 1.2.3 Fix ajax bugs introduced by 1.2.2 1.2.3
- — Version 1.2.2 Fix double-serialization of audit data Fix ignore user 0 to ignore all anonymous users Small code cleanup 1.2.2
- — Version 1.2.1 Refresh for WP 4 Italian translation by Massimiliano 1.2.1
- — Version 1.2 Fix pagination Add failed login auditing Experimental error_log() support to be used alongside fail2ban 1.2
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 89 languages, 10 at 90% or more · development strings
Plus 65 more locales with partial translations.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
No tier crossings observed yet.
Competes with
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