We are WordPress plugin developers who are building a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform here at Logtivity. Logtivity is a WordPress activity log, built with Laravel. Coming from a WordPress plugin development environment, it should be easy, right? Both WordPress and Laravel are built with PHP. How hard can it be? In reality, we’ve…
We’re starting to move quickly at Logtivity with lots of regular updates. Over the last few weeks there were lots of improvements to the “Team Settings” area. In today’s updates, you can now create alerts directly from the “Activity” screen. This makes it easy to create alerts for important events on your websites. Let’s see…
Over the last few weeks, we’ve released major changes to the settings area in Logtivity. The “Team Settings” area now has several new screens, and almost every existing screen has a new layout. This post is a guide to the most noticeable changes.
One of the major benefits of Logtivity is that it can track all your WordPress sites from one dashboard. This applies to individual WordPress sites and also sites in a multisite network. In this guide, I’ll show you how to quickly install Logtivity so that you can have an activity log for all the sites…
Have you ever found a plugin on your WordPress site that you didn’t install? You’re not alone. Last month, I wrote about a WordPress mystery. People told us that plugins on their sites were silently deactivated. Logtivity is an activity log, so we needed to make sure we tracked these changes. That post lead to…
Over the last year, we’ve been on the trail of a mystery. People are shocked to find that plugins will silently change from “Active” to “Inactive” on their WordPress site. Their site has broken and with no warning. The mystery started when one Logtivity customer reported that an active plugin had been disabled. It was…
If you run an eCommerce store, it’s crucial to know who is making changes to your site. This is equally important if you are a web agency assisting clients with their eCommerce stores. Mistakes are inevitable, and sometimes clients might inadvertently damage their own sites. The issue is that these errors can take your agency…
Logtivity is now part of the team that runs PublishPress, MetaSlider, and TaxoPress. This is a bittersweet day. Over the last couple of years, I’ve been running Logtivity with my business partner, Ralph Morris. We’ve been working together to build the best activity log service for WordPress.
A few months ago, Logtivity was a UK-based company. Because of ownership changes, we needed to move the business to the USA. This move turned out to be far more difficult than we anticipated, because of Stripe. The move was difficult enough that I wanted to write about it and help other people in the…
Error logs are one of the most useful tools for anyone running a WordPress. Your site’s error log will record all the error messages generated by WordPress. These logs are a goldmine of information. Developers find error logs really helpful when they need to diagnose and troubleshoot issues with a WordPress website.