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Simple Login Notification

Sends a notification email when admins and other users log in to your site.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version2.4
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 5.3 · PHP 5.6.20
Directory statusactive
Last directory update9 Aug 20262mo ago
Active installations2K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 9 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Simple Login Notification version 2.4 as active, updated 2mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

Sends a detailed notification email when admins and other users log in to your site. Choose the user levels/roles for which you would like to receive login notifications. Optionally exclude users and/or IP addresses.

This plugin is useful for keeping an eye on any unauthorized administrator or user logins. Each email alert includes the user name, IP address, user agent, and other details. Very useful for forensic investigations.

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👁️ Keep an eye on things..

Features

  • Send email alerts for any user level/role
  • Option to exclude alerts for any user ID
  • Option to exclude alerts for any IP address
  • Send alerts to additional email addresses
  • Automatically send alerts to main Admin user
  • Option to disable alerts for main Admin user
  • Provides detailed information about each login
  • Lightweight and fast: total plugin size < 100KB
  • Simple to use: configure a few options and done
  • No permanent changes are made to anything
  • Easy peasy mac and cheesy

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Why is this useful?

I use this plugin to keep an eye on any unauthorized login attempts. Probably a bit paranoid but I don’t care, paranoid works well for me.

How is this plugin different?

While researching for this plugin, I found four other “admin login notification” type plugins:

  • Email Notification on Login
  • Email notification on admin login
  • Kaya Login Notification
  • KolorWeb Access Admin Notification

Unfortunately none of these plugins suited my specific needs:

  • Lightweight, clean and simple
  • Current with latest WordPress
  • No requirement for PHP sessions

So I decided to build my own. Let me emphasize the utter simplicity of this plugin. It does one thing and does it well: sends an email whenever an admin-level user logs in to WordPress.

No bells and whistles, no bloat. If you need more functionality, check out the above plugins should get you there.

Privacy

This plugin does not collect or store any user data. It does not set any cookies, and it does not connect to any third-party locations. The only thing this plugin does is send an email for each admin-level login.

Each email includes information about the user, such as username, IP address, user agent, and other details.

Simple Login Notification is developed and maintained by Jeff Starr, 15-year WordPress developer and book author.

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • admin login notification
  • email notification
  • email notify on admin login
  • login notification
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.3 · PHP 5.6.20
Update activity9 Aug 20262mo ago

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