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This plugin enables you to display how many users are online on your WordPress site, with detailed statistics of where they are and who they are (Members/Guests/Search Bots).

Usage (With Widget)

Go to WP-Admin -> Appearance -> Widgets
The widget name is UserOnline.
Scroll down for instructions on how to create a UserOnline Page.

Usage (Without Widget)

Open wp-content/themes/<YOUR THEME NAME>/sidebar.php and add Anywhere:

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

Development

https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-useronline

Credits

Plugin icon by Freepik from Flaticon

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.

Creating A UserOnline Page

Go to WP-Admin -> Pages -> Add New
Type any title you like in the post’s title area
If you ARE using nice permalinks, after typing the title, WordPress will generate the permalink to the page. You will see an ‘Edit’ link just beside the permalink.
Click ‘Edit’ and type in useronline in the text field and click ‘Save’.
Type [page_useronline] in the post’s content area
Click ‘Publish’

If you ARE NOT using nice permalinks, you need to go to WP-Admin -> Settings -> UserOnline and under ‘UserOnline URL’, you need to fill in the URL to the UserOnline Page you created above.

To Display Most Number Of Users Online

Use:

<?php if (function_exists('get_most_users_online')): ?>
   <p>Most Users Ever Online Is <?php echo get_most_users_online(); ?> On <?php echo get_most_users_online_date(); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>

To Display Users Browsing Site

Use:

<?php if (function_exists('get_users_browsing_site')): ?>
   <div id="useronline-browsing-site"><?php echo get_users_browsing_site(); ?></div>
<?php endif; ?>

To Display Users Browsing A Page

Use:

<?php if (function_exists('get_users_browsing_page')): ?>
   <div id="useronline-browsing-page"><?php echo get_users_browsing_page(); ?></div>
<?php endif; ?>

Error on activation: “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected…”

Make sure your host is running PHP 5. The only foolproof way to do this is to add this line to wp-config.php (after the opening <?php tag):

var_dump(PHP_VERSION);

Broke my theme.

By Trondur on May 9, 2023

Installed, activated widget, and the Divi Theme broke. Widget not shown on front end

I'm looking everywhere for at widget or anything to display live users on my site. The internet is almost comlpetely empty on the subject. Was standard in HTML ffrom the early beginnings of the internet.

Please fix, and I'll rate anew.

Exactly what I was looking for

By cjnrluay9 on August 11, 2021

This is exactly what I was looking for. Quick and simple way to see if there are users connected. No complicated setup, no 3rd party accounts needed. All in the Backend. Perfect

Well, it works... ;)

By Marek Jakubčík (forusak) on August 8, 2021

So hard to find a minimalist plugin to check online users. Thank you!

It works right out of the box!

By Jakours2 on July 15, 2021

Do what it is supposed to. Great plugin. Thanks for this! Where can i pay you a coffee or two?

you deserve for 5 stars

By tajmohamed30 on June 30, 2021

thanks and great

Simple and I love it

By akimbokm on May 18, 2021

I install this plugin on all the sites I set up, so that I can get a quick view if anyone is online before I put each site into maintenance for updates. A simple function, but works well.

thanks, but no new updates

By Anonymous User 15932932 (anonymized_15932932) on February 13, 2021

thanks, but no new updates

After update WP 5.6 plugin User online do not work

By alexrav71 ([email protected]) on December 11, 2020

good morning after WP 5.6 update the plug int user online gives problems, as soon as I go to modify a product in WOOComerce instead of opening the product page it gives me a white screen, someone can help me it was a great plug in to report online users and what they were seeing. Thanks best regards

nearly perfect, does not detect users same ip address with different browsers

By bee (msfin) on May 23, 2019

nearly perfect, does not detect users same ip address with different browsers

Does what I need

By cziwjmk on April 7, 2019

I just wanted to check whether any other users were online before putting the site into maintenance mode for upgrades. I can restrict the view of this to admin, so does exactly what I need. Only thing to note is that it counts all users from the same IP address as one do may not suit all purposes.

2.88.3

FIXED: Strip all tags before inserting data into the DB.

2.88.2

FIXED: Fixed XS. Props Alex.

2.88.1

FIXED: Fixed XSS. Props Juampa Rodriguez.

2.88.0

NEW: Bump to WordPress 6.0.
FIXED: Fixed XSS. Props @steffinstanly.

2.85.6

NEW: Bump to WordPress 5.6
NEW: Added more bots
NEW: Remove hardcoded Archive text in page title
FIXED: Update SCB Framework to support PHP 8

2.85.5

NEW: Bump to WordPress 5.4
NEW: Added more bots

2.87.4

NEW: Bump to WordPress 5.3
NEW: Added more bots
FIXED: Update SCB Framework To Remove contextual_help

2.87.3

FIXED: Duplicated Settings Saved admin_notices
FIXED: Missing arrow
FIXED: Updated bots list

2.87.2

NEW: Bump to 4.9
FIXED: Notices in SCB Framework

2.87.1

NEW: Bump to 4.7
NEW: New useronline_custom_template filter

2.87

NEW: Remove po/mo files from the plugin
NEW: Use translate.wordpress.org to translate the plugin
FIXED: Update SCB Framework
FIXED: Incompatible scbAdminPage::validate()

2.86

FIXED: Notices in Widget Constructor for WordPress 4.3

2.85

NEW: Uses WordPress native uninstall.php

2.84

NEW: Bump to 4.0

2.83

Show user agent when hovering over IP, instead of address lookup
Use local time for UserOnline Page
Fixed ‘Strict Standards: Non-static method’ warnings
Update scb Framework

2.82

show most recent visitors first
fix duplicate entry errors
fix ajax requests for SSL

2.81

fixed settings page
fixed “Return to default” buttons
show user list in admin only to users with ‘manage_options’ capability
added ‘useronline_bots’ filter

2.80

don’t show url and referral links for users in the admin area
smarter detection via ajax requests
fix SQL errors

2.72

fix fatal error on upgrade

2.71

fix %USERONLINE_COUNT% problem

2.70

added option to link user names to their author page
allow displaying online users from a different page than the current page
bundle language files
more info

2.62 (2010-03-07)

fix integration with WP-Stats
fix error with get_admin_page_title()

WP-UserOnline

Usage (With Widget)

Usage (Without Widget)

Development

Credits

Donations

Broke my theme.

Exactly what I was looking for

Well, it works... ;)

It works right out of the box!

you deserve for 5 stars

Simple and I love it

thanks, but no new updates

After update WP 5.6 plugin User online do not work

nearly perfect, does not detect users same ip address with different browsers

Does what I need

2.88.3

2.88.2

2.88.1

2.88.0

2.85.6

2.85.5

2.87.4

2.87.3

2.87.2

2.87.1

2.87

2.86

2.85

2.84

2.83

2.82

2.81

2.80

2.72

2.71

2.70

2.62 (2010-03-07)

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