Kovalenko Admin Change Audit WordPress Plugin

Q: Can I choose a different timezone?

Yes. The plugin defaults to America/Edmonton , but the owner can choose a different timezone for displayed timestamps, date filters, and the nightly maintenance schedule.

Kovalenko Admin Change Audit

Kovalenko Admin Change Audit is a WordPress plugin with the following stats:

#14,190 Global Rank

10+ active installs

About Kovalenko Admin Change Audit

Records important WordPress activity and provides an owner-only log viewer for monitoring client changes.

Kovalenko Admin Change Audit helps site owners keep an audit trail of important administrative activity in a dedicated owner-only log viewer.

Features include:

Login and logout activity logging
Post creation, updates, trash actions, and permanent deletions
Plugin activation, deactivation, and deletion logging
Owner-only log viewer under the Tools menu
Live refresh, filters, sorting, and pagination
Optional second password layer before logs are shown
Configurable timezone with America/Edmonton as the default
Automatic cleanup of expired logs

The plugin does not require an external account or third-party service to function.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who can access the log viewer?

Only the owner account stored by the plugin can open the log viewer screen.

Is the viewer visible in the admin menu?

The screen is available to the owner account from the Tools menu and from an admin bar shortcut.

Does the plugin send data to third-party services?

No. The release prepared for WordPress.org works fully inside WordPress and does not fetch plugin updates or operational data from an external service.

What happens on scheduled maintenance?

The plugin runs a daily cleanup task that removes log rows older than the configured retention period.

Can I choose a different timezone?

Yes. The plugin defaults to America/Edmonton, but the owner can choose a different timezone for displayed timestamps, date filters, and the nightly maintenance schedule.

Changelog

2.8.0

Log custom field, SEO field, ACF field, and featured image changes with readable before-and-after details instead of the generic fallback message.
Log category and tag changes on posts with human-readable term names.
Aggregate all custom field changes from a single save into one log entry instead of one row per field.

2.7.0

Add expandable before-and-after change details for post and page updates in the activity log viewer.
Store structured log details in the database for newly recorded content updates.
Add a schema upgrade path for the new log details column.

2.6.3

Rename the public plugin to a more distinctive WordPress.org-ready brand and slug.
Replace the old wp_* technical prefix with a unique plugin-specific prefix across declarations, hooks, and stored keys.
Limit activation guidance notices to the plugin list and the dedicated log screen.

2.6.2

Harden the activity log queries so every dynamic value uses a $wpdb->prepare() placeholder.
Require WordPress 6.2+ for identifier (%i) placeholder support.