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Activity log

The activity log records changes made on your job board: a job posted, a company edited, a resume deleted, an application sent. Use it to see who did what and when, or to trace how a record came to be the way it is.

Open it from WP Job Portal → Dashboard → Activity log.

What is logged

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A log entry is written when one of these is added, edited or deleted, by anyone: an administrator, an employer, a job seeker or a visitor.

  • Jobs, companies and resumes
  • Job applications
  • Categories, job types, job status, career levels, highest education, currencies and salary range types
  • Countries, states and cities
  • Custom fields and email templates
  • Saved job searches
  • With Pro: cover letters, departments, folders and saved resume searches

Each entry reads like a sentence, for example “Admin added a new Job ( PHP Developer )” or “name Applied for job ( … ) With Resume ( … )”. The record’s name links to its edit screen, and the user’s name links to their user details.

Not everything is logged. Tags, user accounts and configuration changes don’t appear in the activity log.

Read the log

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The log is a table with these columns:

Column What it shows
What happened What was done, with links to the record.
Type The kind of record, for example Jobs or Companies.
By Who made the change. When no name is known, it says Unknown user.
When When it happened.
ID The entry number.

The Activity log with the type tabs, Sort, the search, and entries with what happened, type, by, when and ID

Find and sort entries

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  • Show one kind of record: select a tab above the table: All, or one per kind of record in the log, such as Jobs, Applications, Resumes or Companies.
  • Search: type in Search what happened or who did it and select Search. Reset clears it.
  • Sort: choose Newest first, Oldest first, User A–Z, User Z–A, Type A–Z, Type Z–A, ID, highest first or ID, lowest first, or select a column heading.

How long entries are kept

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Entries are deleted automatically after a number of days, 365 by default. To change it:

  1. Go to WP Job Portal → Settings, tab System & Site.
  2. Under Privacy Retention, set Activity History (days). The maximum is 3650.
  3. Save the settings.

Set it to 0 to keep entries until an administrator or a WordPress privacy erasure request removes them. The clean-up runs once a day.

When a user’s personal data is exported or erased with the WordPress privacy tools, their activity history is included.

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