Deviser Shield – Instant Activity & File Change Alert

Keep your WordPress site secure and under control by monitoring all plugin-related activities.

Deviser Shield tracks important WordPress plugin activities, including activations, deactivations, deletions, and file modifications. It helps site administrators detect unauthorized changes, troubleshoot issues, and maintain full visibility over plugin activity.

Email notifications for plugin activations, deactivations, and deletions are sent instantly to the site administrator or to custom email addresses configured in the plugin settings.

For file and folder modifications, the plugin performs an automated scan every 15 minutes using WordPress Cron. If any changes are detected, an email notification is sent with details of modified, added, or deleted files.

In addition to email alerts, Deviser Shield maintains a local activity log file (deviser-shield.log) within the plugin directory. Administrators can view these logs directly from the settings page via an interactive modal log viewer. The viewer categorizes log entries with colored badges and details, and features instant real-time search filtering, a copy-to-clipboard function, and log clearing capabilities.

The plugin provides an interactive “Email Alert Graph” on the settings page. This visual dashboard tracks the total lifetime count of email alerts sent for each specific plugin action, giving you a clear, at-a-glance overview of all recorded activity.

New Advanced Settings plugin table allowing administrators to selectively track activities (Activation, Deactivation, Deletion, Manual Edits) on a per-plugin basis.

Features

• Monitor plugin activation and deactivation events

• Detect plugin deletions instantly

• Track file and folder modifications within plugins

• Local activity logging in a dedicated file with enable/disable settings

• Interactive log viewer modal to view, search, and copy logs directly from the dashboard

• Skip log file email alerts option to filter out noise from automated log file changes

• Selectively track or ignore specific plugin activities (activations, deactivations, deletions, modifications)

• New Advanced Settings plugin table allowing administrators to selectively track activities (Activation, Deactivation, Deletion, Manual Edits) on a per-plugin basis.

• Download raw log files directly to your device

• Clear activity logs instantly inside the viewer modal

• Receive real-time email notifications

• Lightweight and performance-optimized

• Easy to configure and use

How It Works

After activation, the plugin automatically starts monitoring plugin activity. Whenever a change is detected, an email notification is sent with detailed information so administrators can take immediate action if required.

Use Cases

• Improve WordPress site security

• Detect unauthorized plugin changes

• Monitor administrator or developer actions

• Maintain an audit trail of plugin activity

1. Upload the plugin folder to /wp-content/plugins/

2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress

3. Go to Deviser Shield → Settings

4. Add email addresses to receive alerts

1. 

   Email Alert Graph

2. 

   Plugin settings page

3. 

   Advanced Settings plugin table

1.0.0

• Initial release

1.0.1

• Maintenance updates

• Improved coding standards and function prefixes

• Updated text domain

• Updated contributor information

1.0.2

• Include plugin name in email subject line and format notification subjects.

• Add option to enable/disable activity log (default: Enable).

• Add option to skip sending email alerts for .log files (enabled by default).

1.0.3

• Added the website name to the alert email and reordered message content for improved clarity.

• Improved log file exclusion to also skip files containing .log, _log, -log, or log in their filename.

• Added an interactive “Email Alert Graph” to the settings page to visually track the total number of alerts sent for each plugin action.

• Added settings checkboxes to selectively track or ignore specific plugin activities (activations, deactivations, deletions, modifications).

1.0.4

• Added a new tabbed interface (General and Advanced) to the settings page for better organization.

• Introduced a new Advanced Settings plugin table allowing administrators to selectively track activities (Activation, Deactivation, Deletion, Manual Edits) on a per-plugin basis.

• Improved email alert formatting by removing extra spacing between modified file entries.

1.0.5

• Added a function to identify if a plugin path belongs to this plugin, preventing the plugin from triggering alerts for its own activity.
• Excluded Deviser Shield from the Advanced Settings plugin list.