View Categories

How to Get an Alert for Plugin Deactivations in WordPress

Logtivity has a feature called “Alerts” that allows you to receive notifications for important changes on your sites. Alerts can be sent to two Alert Channels: email and Slack.

You can use this feature to get alerts every time there is a plugin deactivated on your WordPress sites.

Here’s our guide to getting alerts from Logtivity for plugins that are disabled on your WordPress site.

Create the Plugin Deactivated Alert for Your WordPress Sites

This guide will show you how to get plugin disabled alerts for all your WordPress sites connected to Logtivity. If you haven’t done this yet, you will need to connect your site to. Click here for our getting started guide.

Go to “Team Settings” and then “Activity Alerts” in the Logtivity dashboard. Here are the settings you can enter:

  • Action: This is the trigger for the alert. We should choose “Plugin Deactivated”.
  • Context: This field allows you to specify more information about the Action. You don’t have to enter anything in this field. However, if you want to specify one plugin for this alert, the “Context” field should be the plugin name such as “Yoast SEO” or “Easy Digital Downloads”.
  • User: You can choose to get notifications for plugins disabled by a specific user.

After creating the alert, we recommend that you test the alert by disabling a plugin. This image below shows how the alerts appear in Slack. You can see three buttons underneath the alert:

  • View/Edit Alert: This will take you to the screen where you can modify these alerts. It looks very similar to the image above.
  • View Logs: This button will show you all your logs that match “Plugin Deactivated”.
  • View User: This will display all the activity for the user who triggered the plugin deactivation.