WP-UserOnline

WP-UserOnline shows how many people are on your site right now, and where they are. Members are named, guests and search bots are counted, and the whole thing refreshes itself in the background without a page reload.

Features

• A counter, a “who is browsing this page” line and a “who is browsing the site” line, each usable on its own.
• A full users online page, listing every visitor with the page they are on, where they came from and when they arrived.
• A sidebar widget offering any of those five combinations.
• Every string is a template you can edit, so the wording is yours rather than the plugin’s.
• Around three hundred search bots recognised by user agent, and a filter for adding your own.
• One admin screen with three tabs — who is online now, the settings, the templates — plus a line in the Dashboard’s At a Glance panel.
• A section on the WP-Stats page when that plugin is installed.

Donations

I spent most of my free time creating, updating, maintaining and supporting these plugins, if you really love my plugins and could spare me a couple of bucks, I will really appreciate it. If not feel free to use it without any obligations.

Usage

The simplest way is the widget. Go to WP-Admin -> Appearance -> Widgets, add the UserOnline widget to a sidebar, and pick which of the five statistics types it should show.

A classic theme can call the template tags directly instead, anywhere in sidebar.php, header.php or a template part:

<?php if ( function_exists( 'users_online' ) ) : ?>
    <p>Users online: <span id="useronline-count"><?php users_online(); ?></span></p>
<?php endif; ?>

The element ids matter: useronline-count, useronline-browsing-site, useronline-browsing-page and useronline-details are what the refresh script looks for. A figure printed outside one of them is correct when the page loads and then stays where it is.

To give visitors a page of their own listing everyone online, create a page and put the shortcode in it:

[page_useronline]

Everything the plugin has is at WP-Admin -> WP-UserOnline, on three tabs: Users Online for who is here right now, Settings, and Templates for the wording of everything the plugin prints.

Showing Users Online In A Block

One block is available in the editor, under Widgets:

• Users Online — everyone on the site right now, grouped into members, guests and bots, with the page each of them is reading and the most-ever-online record underneath. The same listing [page_useronline] produces.

Read the full description on the official page →