REST API Log

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57 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 20 listed. 37 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 2 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 88% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 16 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ mydigitalsauce

   12mo ago

   It will absolutely wreck your database efficiency, it is adding records incorretly to posts and postmeta. It should of registered its own tables, i regret installing.

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2. ★★★★★ floow95

   1.8y ago

   The plugin is oding it’s job and for that I am very thankful. A little side note is that it is adding for each log entry a post type to WordPress. On 200.000 API calls per week it has brough our order numbers from #600000 to #900000 within 10 days. Therefore leaving it enabled may not be so recommended. I have disabled it again now. Don’t know if this is solveable but just thought it would be a nice side note.

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3. ★★★★★ blizam

   3.4y ago

   The clowns leaving this a 1 star obviously don’t know what it’s intended for… Yes… do NOT leave this plugin running constantly unless you know what you’re doing and understand your particular WP environment and it’s day to day API activity. More plugins than ever use the REST API to interact with WP and your database will increase in size exponential to it’s activity. For most people this tool is intended to help troubleshoot specific API activities and is something that you only turn on for a short period of time while you’re testing/monitoring specific API calls and responses…. and for that, it works beautifully. Thank you!!

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4. ★★★★★ ultrono

   3.7y ago

   This extension will make your database huge, so be aware of this if using in production. I’d recommend turning it on for a short period then disabling. Filtering by request method (POST, GET etc.) does not work. Deleting data (at /options-general.php?page=wp-rest-api-log-settings) takes an absolute age, I’m tempted to do this manually in the database. I have ~105,000 log entries. I wish to delete these. According to the API responses, ~100 logs are being deleted every minute. I’m making direct POST requests to the WordPress API (using Postman) and the request method displayed in the log is always GET.The source IP is not always recorded – have tried the IP / X forwarded for option to resolve the IP too. This topic was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by ultrono.

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5. ★★★★★ con

   5.3y ago

   This is great tool to log REST API calls. Period.

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6. ★★★★★ jnz31

   5.5y ago

   its trash. whilst i do like the idea of the plugin, this tool is simply not working properly. guess it’s abandoned. there is a filter build in to filter for the request type, but it does not work (simply doesn’t filter at all). and there is an option, to purge logs, that are older than x days, but this doesn’t work ether. and deleting the logs takes ages, you might want to do that in the db directly. so handle with care, as it will bloat the db and it’ll be hard to find the data, you might be looking for.. This topic was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by jnz31. This topic was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by jnz31. This topic was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by jnz31.

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7. ★★★★★ Patrik Csak

   5.8y ago

   Thanks!

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8. ★★★★★ amykant

   6.4y ago

   This was a legacy plugin for a client’s website… I would not recommend it! It bloated our disk usage and one of the tables ended up with 22 million rows. Here are the queries we used to clean things up. -- Run first delete m from wp_posts p join wp_postmeta m on p.ID = m.post_id where post_type = 'wp-rest-api-log' -- Run second delete from wp_posts where post_type = 'wp-rest-api-log' -- Run third DELETE wp_term_relationships FROM wp_term_relationships LEFT JOIN wp_posts ON wp_term_relationships.object_id = wp_posts.ID WHERE wp_posts.ID is NULL;

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 7.1 Added additional security check to REST download endpoint (props alisalive) Fixed PHP 8 deprecation notice for submenu page (props BrianHenryIE) Fixed echo bug when viewing an invalid log entry ID (props DAnn2012) 7.1
2. — Version 7.0 Fixed bugs related to Method and Status filtering. Removed deprecated FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING calls. Updated highlight.js version Updated clipboard.js version 7.0
3. — Version 6.9 Updated highlight.js version Updated clipboard.js version 6.9
4. — Version 6.8 Updated the Purge All Entries functionality in the admin to purge batches of 25 at a time. Updated CLI purge command with a progress bar. Fixed ClipboardJS error (props itowhid06) 6.8
5. — Version 6.7 Added admin notice about running the plugin on a production server Set the default purge days to 7 Updated clipboard.js version 6.7
6. — Version 6.6 Moved taxonomy registration to a separate file, made taxonomies not public to prevent them from automatically showing in Yoast SEO sitemaps Updated highlight.js version Updated minimum WP version to 4.7 Updated unit test 6.6

All 3 disclosed vulnerabilities are patched in the current version (1.7.3). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched Medium · 5.3 REST API Log <= 1.7.2 - Unauthenticated Insecure Direct Object Reference ↗
   2026-10-01 CVE-2026-100514 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key Affects <= 1.7.2 Patched in 1.7.3
2. Patched Medium · 5.3 REST API Log <= 1.7.1 - Unauthenticated Information Exposure ↗
   2026-08-07 CVE-2026-66443 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Affects <= 1.7.1 Patched in 1.7.2
3. Patched Medium · 5.3 REST API Log <= 1.7.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Sensitive Log Data Disclosure ↗
   2026-07-27 CVE-2026-16547 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.7.0 Patched in 1.7.1

Translated into 135 languages, 3 at 90% or more

Plus 111 more locales with partial translations.

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-07-26 6K+ → 5K+ down after 50 days in tier
2. 2025-06-06 5K+ → 6K+ up after 941 days in tier
3. 2022-11-08 4K+ → 5K+ up after 407 days in tier
4. 2021-09-27 3K+ → 4K+ up after 144 days in tier
5. 2021-05-06 2K+ → 3K+ up after 481 days in tier
6. 2020-01-11 1K+ → 2K+ up after 709 days in tier
7. 2018-02-01 700+ → 1K+ up after 215 days in tier
8. 2017-07-01 500+ → 700+ up after 90 days in tier

Competes with

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REST API Log: 5K+ active installs, 3.6★ (24 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-03. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-rest-api-log