Bot Logger
A Log File Analysis plugin for WordPress
by Mike Ciffone · github.com/mikeciffone/bot-logger · website
★ 4stars
19release downloads
≈10active sites
0forks
Install
The author publishes release zips, so WP-CLI can install straight from GitHub:
wp plugin install https://github.com/mikeciffone/bot-logger/releases/download/v1.7/bot-logger-1.7.zipFrom the readme
Author: Mike Ciffone
Bot Logger is a WordPress plugin designed to log and validate incoming requests from search engine bots. It logs Googlebot and Bingbot by default, and allows up to 3 custom user agents. Bot Logger was designed to make log file analysis more convenient and accessible, allowing users to view details usually only shown in access logs such as user agent, request date, resource, status code, and IP address directly in the WordPress admin panel.
This version of the plugin will always be free and open source. You can show your support by linking to it's web page and sharing it with others.
Features
- Logs requests from Googlebot and Bingbot by default
- Handles a variety of Google's alternate user agents
- Ability to import existing access.log data from the server (assuming www-data user has read access)
- Bot Logger automatically looks in standard access.log paths (eg. /var/log/nginx/) for Nginx, Apache, and Litespeed. Node.js is not supported at this time.
-Users can set a custom path in the import page settings.
- Automatic and manual IP validation against Google's and Bing's IP ranges
- Ability to track custom user agents (eg. additional search engines,
Read the full README on GitHub →
Releases
Active-site estimate ≈10 comes from the median of recent superseded releases. Method.