Stream – Activity Log & Audit Trail

Stream is a complete activity log and audit trail for your WordPress site: see what changed, who changed it, and when. From plugin activations to post edits, login attempts to new user creation, every user and system action is recorded in an audit log built for debugging, security monitoring, and compliance. Every logged action is displayed in an activity stream and organized for easy filtering by User, Role, Context, Action or IP address. Admins can highlight entries in the activity log—such as suspicious user activity—to investigate what’s happening in real time. Stream also lets you configure email alerts and webhooks for integrations like Slack and IFTTT, so your team knows the moment something goes wrong. Stream keeps its own logs healthy too: records are automatically purged on the retention schedule you choose, with batched deletion and orphaned-data cleanup that stay reliable even on very large sites. Stream is also AI-ready: its abilities are exposed through the WordPress Abilities API and MCP Adapter, so AI assistants and other tools can securely query your site’s activity records. For advanced users, Stream supports a network view of all activity records on your Multisite, exclude rules to ignore certain kinds of user activity, and a WP-CLI command for querying records. Stream is free and fully open source — development happens in the open on GitHub, maintained by XWP. With Stream’s powerful activity logging, you’ll have the information you need to responsibly manage your WordPress sites. Built-In Tracking Integrations For Popular Plugins:

• Advanced Custom Fields
• bbPress
• BuddyPress
• Easy Digital Downloads
• Gravity Forms
• Jetpack
• Two Factor
• User Switching
• WooCommerce
• Yoast SEO

Built-In Tracking For Core Actions:

• Posts
• Pages
• Custom Post Types
• Users
• Themes
• Plugins
• Tags
• Categories
• Custom Taxonomies
• Settings
• Custom Backgrounds
• Custom Headers
• Menus
• Media Library
• Widgets
• Comments
• Theme Editor
• WordPress Core Updates

Other Noteworthy Features:

• Multisite view of all activity records on a network
• Limit who can view user activity records by user role
• Set exclude rules to ignore certain kinds of user activity
• Live updates of user activity records in the Stream
• Export your Activity Stream as a CSV or JSON file
• WP-CLI command for querying records

4.3.0 - July 18, 2026 Enhancements:

• Make Action Scheduler usage optional at runtime: deferred purge / reset work now runs through a scheduler abstraction that defaults to Action Scheduler but can fall back to WP-Cron via the wp_stream_use_action_scheduler filter.
• Add the wp_stream_enable_auto_purge filter (default true) to disable all TTL record auto-purge scheduling regardless of backend.
• Surface a warning on the WP-Cron fallback when a large-table purge or reset is queued.

Bug Fixes:

• Log the WooCommerce order ID instead of the order object in order event records.
• Fix PHP 8.4 deprecation warnings.

View the full release notes on GitHub. 4.2.2 - July 6, 2026 Security:

• Harden authorization for the live update preference: enforce the Stream view capability and always target the current user in the stream_enable_live_update AJAX handler so a user can only change their own live update preference.

View the full release notes on GitHub. 4.2.1 - July 2, 2026 Bug Fixes:

• Fix authorization checks for Stream activity access and harden related AJAX, export, and query paths.
• Fix inverted isset() check silently ignoring user search input in get_users().
• Create missing database tables when resetting the database.
• Avoid generating rewrite rules for the alerts post type.

View the full release notes on GitHub. 4.2.0 - May 28, 2026 New Features:

• Expose Stream abilities via the WordPress MCP Adapter when present, enabling AI tools to query Stream records through the Abilities API.

Bug Fixes:

• Fix unbounded growth of stream / stream_meta tables: the TTL-based auto-purge now runs via Action Scheduler with batched deletion, resolving database bloat on large sites.
• Fix orphan stream_meta rows accumulating across repeated purge cycles with a terminal orphan reaper at the end of every auto-purge chain.
• Skip Action Scheduler queries on front-end pageloads, eliminating unnecessary queries per pageview.

Enhancements:

• Add a Clean Orphaned Meta link under Settings → Advanced for one-shot cleanup on already-bloated installs.
• Replace the legacy wp_stream_auto_purge WP-Cron event with a recurring Action Scheduler action, with run history visible under Tools → Scheduled Actions.

View the full release notes on GitHub. 4.1.2 - February 19, 2026 View the release notes. 4.1.1 - February 3, 2025 View the release notes. See the full changelog for all releases.