The Jetpack team takes the security of your site seriously. We know that keeping a website safe and secure often boils down to knowledge -- what changes took place? When? -- so we're excited to announce the new Activity feature is now available on all Jetpack and WordPress.com websites.

Smart site owners know that it's important to keep a close eye on everything happening in their dashboard. Plugin installations, theme changes, and post content updates are critical events that can dramatically change your site. Monitoring them has always been important; now it's also easy.

Activity is a convenient, chronological list of changes made to your site. It records and displays the most important events, including:

  • 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.

When you try out Activity, you'll find the 20 most recent events that took place on your site. If you have a Personal or Premium plan, you'll have access to 30 days' worth of events. Customers on the Professional plan will have access to a full year of events. Paid customers can also filter activities by type and date range to find exactly what you want in less time.

Activity is more than just an audit log. Having access to this comprehensive list of events makes it easier to troubleshoot and repair your site when you need to. Whether it was a faulty plugin update or an errant theme change that damaged your site, Activity takes much of the guesswork out of finding out where and when things went wrong.

Stay up to date on the latest theme and plugin updates

Keeping your themes and plugins up-to-date — and knowing when you last updated each item — is critical to the security of your site. With Activity you have access to all the details in one place, and you can even update themes and plugins directly from the event log.

We'd love to hear from you

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.