Joe's Recent Users Activity

A mobile responsive lightweight plugin displaying the most recent 100 logged-in users and their last viewed page in the admin area accessible via a ‘Recent Activity’ admin menu link.

1. User ID – The user ID associated with the logged in party
2. Username – The currently logged-in user’s username, linking to the user’s profile page
3. Role – The user’s current role within the WordPress installation
4. Last Page Viewed – The front-end page the user last viewed. Admin pages and callbacks are not logged, linking to the page itself
5. IP Address – The user’s IP address
6. Last Login – The date and time of the user’s most recent login using the date format set within the WordPress installation
7. Time active – The time from the last login time to the most recenty viewed page

‘Top 10 Exited Pages’ shows the five most common pages for logged-in visitors to see before they leave the site.

Features

A mobile responsive lightweight plugin displaying the most recent 100 logged-in users and their last viewed page in the admin area accessible via a ‘Recent Activity’ admin menu link. A section called, ‘Top 10 Exited Pages’ shows the ten most common pages for logged-in visitors to see before they leave the site.

Translations

None currently, but it is such a simple plugin there really is not much language to consider.

How to use the plugin?

1. To see all the tracked records in admin, click on the plugin menu shown in the left sidebar.

Bug Fixes

If you find any bug, please create a topic with a step by step description to reproduce the bug.
Please search the forum before creating a new topic.

Keywords

user log, log, logger, detector, tracker, membership, register, sign up, admin, subscriber, editor, contributor, geo location, profile, front end registration, manager, report, statistics, activity, user role editor

Third Party Code Integration

A PayPal Donate button is integrated into the plugin page if users would like to support the developer. The code used is shown at https://developer.paypal.com/sdk/donate/ and PayPal’s privacy terms can be read at https://www.paypal.com/myaccount/privacy/privacyhub/

2.3 (5th September 2024)

• Compatibility with WordPress 6.6.1

2.2 (8th May 2024)

• Compatibility with WordPress 6.5.3

2.1 (25th March 2024)

• Compatibility with WordPress 6.5

2.0.3 (25th March 2024)

• plugin blueprint.json file added for testing the plugin easily

2.0.2 (25th March 2024)

• plugin description updated for brevity

2.0.1 (25th March 2024)

• corrected spelling errors

2.0 (25th March 2024)

• compatibility with the latest version of WordPress (6.4.3)

1.9 (9th November 2023)

• changed the default icon in the admin menu
• added title and subheader for mobile explaining sorting

1.8 (9th November 2023)

• added mobile responsiveness for the main table

1.7 (7th November 2023)

• table increased to 100 most recent users’ activity (from 10)
• paginaton introduced
• most visited page display increased to 10 (from 5)

1.6 (1st November 2023)

• sanitize function renamed to match the rest of the plugin functions

1.5 (28th October 2023)

• additional data sanitized and escaped, nonce added to clear all results button

1.4 (25th October 2023)

• additional data sanitized and escaped

1.3 (16th October 2023)

• Nonce added to the POST call to prevent unauthorised access.
• prepare() added to database clear query to protect the code from SQL injection vulnerabilities.
• detail about PayPal Donate button usage added to readme,txt
• all necessary data sanitized, escaped, and validated
• variables escaped when echo’d

1.2 (9th October 2023)

• All data being read from any of these PHP global variables $_POST / $_GET / $_REQUEST / $_COOKIE / $_SERVER / $_SESSION / $_FILES has been sanitized before storing it in another variable or doing something else with it.

In this code, the following sanitization functions have been used:

sanitize_text_field() for text fields.
absint() for integers.
esc_url_raw() for raw URLs.
These sanitization functions ensure that the input data is safe to use and minimize the risk of security vulnerabilities.

• Appropriate escaping functions (esc_html, esc_url_raw, sanitize_text_field) added to the variables that are being echoed or printed to ensure that the output is safe from XSS vulnerabilities.

1.1 (27th July 2023)

• Added top 5 most exited pages (with clickable links), Top 5 exited pages only include front-end pages and exclude admin-ajax.php, ‘nonce’, ‘wp-json’, and others not matching front-end permalinks.
• Added line space and contact details under the main title.
• Added a ‘Clear all results’ button in case the table becomes bloated

1.0 (24th July 2023)

Plugin released

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/joes_recent_users_activity directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.