Activity Log

  • Resolved garydumbleton

    (@garydumbleton)


    2 years, 10 months ago

    Hello,

    I am not seeing any way to delete or reduce the size of the activity log. I am not wanting to have it grow enough that the log file is very large. At present, I have about 700 pages (about 7000 transactions). Is there a way of reducing the number / size of the file easily. I have done a quick look and do not see the log file in the plugin directory.

    Please let me know how to delete the file. It would take a long time deleting 7000 entries at 10 per deletion. The historic entries have served their purpose after the lenghth of time goes by that you have set for blocking.

    By the way, I really like your plugin, how it works and its effectiveness.

    Thanks for your help on this.

    Gary

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  • Hi Gary,
    Thank you for your kind message. Login activity is stored in a database table and is automatically deleted after 45 days. The database is a much more efficient way of storing data and avoids the issues you would see with a large log file. For reference, there are sites running with hundreds of thousands of log entries with no noticable impact on login times at all.

    We really appreciate your feedback though and will look to make this a configurable setting in a future version.

    If you still need to delete large numbers of log entries you can select the number of items to display per page in the ‘screen options’ tab of the activity log. You could change this to 999 for example, and then select ‘delete’ in the ‘bulk options’ dropdown.

    I hope this helps.

    GuardGiant team.

    Thread Starter garydumbleton

    (@garydumbleton)

    Hello,

    Sorry to bother you again. I am looking at the activity log and I do not see any “screen options” tab. I am wondering if my version is older. I have version 2.2.4

    Thanks for all of your work on this,

    Gary

    No problem Gary. The screen options is a ‘fly down’ tab in the top right of some WordPress pages. It should be on your activity log page.

    https://www.wpbeginner.com/glossary/screen-options/

    I guess it may be different if you access the page on a phone or tablet?

    GuardGiant Team.

    Thread Starter garydumbleton

    (@garydumbleton)

    Thanks,

    I have learned something today. I did not realize that was there.

    Thanks again.

    Gary

    You’re welcome.

    Kind regards,

    GuardGiant Team.

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