CodeFaeries Store Sentinel is a WooCommerce activity monitor that tracks critical store events and presents them in a clean, chronological feed. Know immediately when orders are trashed, deleted, or change status — and when products disappear from your catalog.
Requires WooCommerce — Store Sentinel is purpose-built for WooCommerce stores. It is built and tested against WooCommerce 7.9 and later; on activation the plugin checks that WooCommerce is active, not which version it is.
Key Features
- Chronological Activity Feed — All critical WooCommerce events in one timeline, sorted newest-first
- Order Tracking — Monitor order trashed, permanently deleted, and status change events
- Product Tracking — Monitor product trashed and permanently deleted events
- Severity Levels — Events classified as info, warning, or critical for quick visual scanning
- Filters — Filter by event type, severity level and date range, with Today / 7d / 30d presets, free-text search, user ID and object ID
- Event Details — Click any event to see full context: order totals, old and new status, product info, the source of the change and the plugin behind it, the acting user, and a status history merging Sentinel events with WooCommerce order notes
- Dashboard Widget — At-a-glance today's stats on the WordPress dashboard
- HPOS-Native — Built for WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage from day one
- Privacy-First — Customer emails are partially masked and client IPs are stored only as a salted hash
- GDPR Tools — Personal-data exporter, eraser, and a suggested privacy policy section
- Automatic Cleanup — Daily cron removes events older than the retention period (configurable from 7 days to unlimited; 7-day default)
- Multisite Support — Works on multisite networks with per-site data isolation
- Developer Friendly — Filters and actions for every event, severity, and query
In Store Sentinel Pro
Anomaly detection, email alerts (immediate / hourly / daily digest), webhook
notifications, scheduled email reports, advanced filters (source, object type,
saved per-user presets), CSV export and additional event types (customers,
coupons, shipping) are part of
Store Sentinel Pro, distributed separately
from
codefaeries.com. The free plugin exposes documented hooks that Pro builds
on. Retention is not one of them: the free plugin already offers unlimited
retention.
Tracked Events
- Order trashed (warning) — Order moved to trash
- Order deleted (critical) — Order permanently deleted
- Order status changed (info) — Order status transition (e.g., processing to completed)
- Product trashed (warning) — Product moved to trash
- Product deleted (critical) — Product permanently deleted
- Order meta deleted (warning) — Order metadata removed; off by default, enable it on the General tab
1.0.6 - 2026-10-05
- Improved: the bundled admin toolkit is updated to its latest release. No change to features or settings.
- Compatibility: tested up to WordPress 7.1.
1.0.5 - 2026-10-02
- Improved: released together with Store Sentinel Pro 1.0.5, whose settings fixes need this version. Nothing changes in the free features.
1.0.4 - 2026-10-02
- Fixed: a retention period that is no longer offered (for example 180 or 365 days after Store Sentinel Pro is deactivated or its licence lapses) is kept when the settings are saved, instead of dropping to 7 days and letting the next cleanup delete older events.
- Fixed: choosing "Unlimited" retention shows its warning straight away, not only after saving.
- Fixed: the review request no longer appears right after activation; it waits the intended 14 days.
- Fixed: the "Get Support" and Store Sentinel Pro links lead to pages that exist.
- Improved: the Pro panel inside the plugin describes exactly what Store Sentinel Pro adds.
1.0.3 - 2026-07-03
- Fixed: permanently deleted orders were not being recorded because the deletion listener used an outdated hook name; order deletions are now captured correctly on HPOS stores.
1.0.2 - 2026-05-18
- Improved: Store Sentinel is now a focused free plugin — anomaly detection, email alerts, webhooks and scheduled reports moved to the separately distributed Store Sentinel Pro, with documented hooks so Pro builds cleanly on the free version.
- Compatibility: "Tested up to" bumped to WordPress 7.0.
- Code quality: passes WordPress Plugin Check cleanly.
- New: filter to exclude specific plugin slugs from event source detection (helps when third-party plugins clutter the backtrace).
1.0.1
- Internal: release packaging refreshed and CHANGELOG.md consolidated into this changelog.
1.0.0
First public release. Store Sentinel is a WooCommerce early-warning system: a chronological feed of critical store actions.
- Live activity feed with filters (event type, severity, date range) and pagination.
- Tracks orders (trashed, deleted, status changes, meta removal) and products (trashed, deleted).
- Severity levels — info, warning, critical — with a detail modal showing full context.
- Records the source of each action (Admin, REST API, WP-CLI, Cron, AJAX) and the actor (user, role, display name).
- Settings page for event toggles, retention, privacy, and data management.
- Dashboard widget showing today's activity.
- Daily automatic retention cleanup (7-day default, configurable).
- HPOS-native (WooCommerce 7.9+).
- Multisite-aware install and uninstall.
- Accessibility: focus-trapped modal, ARIA live regions, keyboard navigation.
- Extensible by developers via filters and actions.