Features Provided
Logify Email Digest — WordPress Activity Summary Emails
Checking the activity log every day is tedious, and it is easy to miss something between visits. The Logify Email Digest sends a scheduled summary of your WordPress site activity — logins, content changes, plugin and theme events — straight to your inbox on a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule, so you stay informed without logging in. The Email Digest is a free feature.
What is the Email Digest?
The Email Digest is a periodic activity report that Logify emails to the recipients you choose. It rolls up everything recorded since the last send into a single summary — security events, content activity, and site totals — using WP-Cron on the frequency you set.
Enable the Email Digest
- Go to Logify > Settings > Email Digest.
- Turn on Enable Email Digest (off by default).
- Choose a Frequency — Daily, Weekly, or Monthly (Weekly by default).
- Set Send On — a weekday for weekly digests, or a day of the month (1–28) for monthly. This is ignored for daily digests.
- Choose a Send Time in 30-minute steps (08:00 by default), scheduled in your site's timezone.
- Add Recipients — one email address per line. Leave the field blank to send to the WordPress admin email.
- Save your settings.
| Field | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Enable Email Digest | Off | Turns the scheduled digest on or off. |
| Frequency | Weekly | How often the digest is sent: Daily, Weekly, or Monthly. |
| Send On | Monday | Weekday (weekly) or day 1–28 (monthly). Ignored for daily. |
| Send Time | 08:00 | Send time in 30-minute steps, in the site timezone. |
| Recipients | Admin email | One email per line; blank falls back to the WordPress admin email. |
Preview and test before you rely on it
The Email Digest tab includes a status card showing the digest's current state, the configured frequency, when it was last sent, and your site timezone. Two buttons let you check the result without waiting for the schedule:
- Preview Email opens a sample digest in a new tab.
- Send Test emails a sample to any address so you can confirm delivery.
What's inside the digest
The standard (free) digest includes:
- Website Overview — site name and URL, total log entries, and log database size.
- Period Activity — total events recorded during the period.
- Security Activity — failed logins, successful logins, new users, and password changes.
- Business Activity — posts created and updated, media uploads, and plugin and theme events.
- News / Tips — a rotating card with product tips and related-plugin suggestions.
- Footer — the Logify version and a link to manage your digest settings.
Free users also see an upsell banner where the PRO Advanced Insights section appears.
Advanced Insights (PRO)
PRO feature
The Advanced Insights section is available in Logify PRO. Free digests show an upsell banner in its place.
PRO subscribers see an extra Advanced Insights section with:
- Critical+ Events — count of events at severity 600 or higher.
- High Severity — count of events at severity 500–599.
- Brute-Force Bursts — number of aggregated brute-force events.
- Most Active User — the top user's display name and event count for the period.
- Top IP Address — the busiest IP and its event count for the period.
- Top Event Type — the most common event category for the period.
For a full walkthrough of these metrics, see How To Read Logify Email Digest Insights.
Conclusion
The Email Digest keeps you informed of what's happening on your WordPress site without opening the dashboard, and it costs nothing to run. Enable it, pick a frequency that matches how closely you watch the site, and use Send Test to confirm delivery. To control what data the digest reports on and how long entries are kept, see Data Privacy, Anonymisation and Log Retention. The digest is a periodic summary — for a full record of every email your site sends, see the PRO Email Log tracker.
FAQs
Is the Email Digest a free feature?
Yes. The Email Digest — including the schedule, recipients, Preview Email, and Send Test — is part of free Logify. Only the Advanced Insights section (severity breakdown, most active user, top IP, brute-force count, and top event type) is reserved for Logify PRO; free digests show an upsell banner in that spot instead.
Why hasn't my digest arrived?
The digest is sent by WP-Cron, so it only fires when your site receives traffic or you run a real system cron pointing at wp-cron.php. Low-traffic sites can see delayed or skipped sends. Confirm the digest is enabled, check that Recipients contains a valid address, and use Send Test to verify email delivery works at all.
What timezone is the send time in?
The Send Time you choose is interpreted in your site's timezone, set under Settings > General in WordPress. Internally the schedule is stored in GMT, but you always configure and read it in your local site time, so 08:00 means 08:00 for your site.
Can I send the digest to more than one person?
Yes. Enter one email address per line in the Recipients field and each will receive the digest. Invalid entries are skipped, and leaving the field blank sends only to the WordPress admin email. This is useful for copying a security lead or an external auditor.
How often can the digest be sent?
You can choose Daily, Weekly, or Monthly. Weekly is the default. For weekly digests you pick the weekday under Send On; for monthly digests you pick a day between 1 and 28 so the send date exists in every month.