Happy to share that Activity Log Pro version 1.0.3.1, which brings a feature that was requested – the ability to exclude specific post types from your activity logs. (ChangeLog | User Guide)
A great idea from Julia
Sometimes the best features come directly from people using the plugin in the real world. Julia from (French Property Marketplace) reached out with this suggestion, and it immediately clicked. When you’re managing a site with custom post types that generate a lot of routine activity, your logs can get cluttered with events you simply don’t need to track.
Maybe you have a custom post type for property listings that updates constantly, or perhaps there’s a notification system creating posts behind the scenes that you don’t care about monitoring. Whatever the case, you should have the control to decide exactly what gets logged on your site. – So a few emails bounced over and back, and now we have the solution.
Simple but powerful filtering
With the new Excluded Post Types feature in Activity Log Pro Premium, you can now select which post types to completely exclude from logging. Once excluded, any create, update, delete, or status change events for those post types won’t appear in your logs at all. This means cleaner, more focused activity logs that show you only what matters to your workflow.
I also added an option: “Also exclude media attachments uploaded to Excluded Post Types”.
When this checkbox is enabled, media files uploaded to those Excluded Post Types are also excluded from activity logging. This extends exclusion to associated attachments, reducing log noise for high-volume post types with many images or files. This option is enabled by default and can be toggled off if you want to log media events even for excluded post types.
The setup is straightforward – just head to your Activity Log Pro settings, find the new Excluded Post Types section, select the post types checkbox you want to ignore, and save. That’s it. Your logs instantly become more relevant and easier to navigate.
One thing worth noting: the Excluded Post Types section will only show your custom post types that are properly registered with WordPress. This means you’ll see all your custom post types only if they’ve been registered correctly using WordPress’s standard register_post_type() function. If you’re not seeing a custom post type you expected, it might not be registered in a way that makes it visible to WP – which is usually a sign of a plugin or theme issue worth looking into anyway.
Why it’s a Premium feature
This might seem like a simple checkbox feature on the surface, but there was actually quite a bit of work involved to make it reliable and efficient. We needed to ensure exclusions work across all post-related events, integrate seamlessly with the existing filtering system (the Excluded Option Names Setting), and maintain performance even on sites with dozens of custom post types. That engineering effort is why this feature lives in Activity Log Pro Premium.
If you’re already a Premium user, you’ll see the update available in your dashboard. If you’ve been considering upgrading, this feature (along with all the other Premium capabilities) might be exactly what you need to take full control of your site monitoring.
Thanks again to Julia for the excellent suggestion – this is exactly the kind of feedback that makes Activity Log Pro better for everyone.
Getting the update
If you’re already using Activity Log Pro, you should see the update notification in your WordPress dashboard. Just update as you normally would, and all these new features will be ready to use immediately. Premium users will need to download the latest Premium version from your account. Your existing logs and settings won’t be affected – everything just gets better.
If you haven’t tried Activity Log Pro yet, now is a great time to start keeping track of what’s happening on your WordPress site with detailed activity monitoring and these new automated email reports.
As always, if you run into any issues or have questions about the new features, don’t hesitate to reach out through the support forum. I’m here to help make sure Activity Log Pro works perfectly for your needs.
That’s it for this release, you can get the full ChangeLog here.