Description

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 would really appreciate it. If not, feel free to use it without any obligations.

Screenshots

Admin – Dashboard’s Right Now
UserOnline Page
Admin – Settings Page

FAQ

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);

Reviews

Trondur 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.

cjnrluay9 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

Marek Jakubčík August 8, 2021

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

Jakours2 July 15, 2021 2 replies

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

tajmohamed30 June 30, 2021

thanks and great

akimbokm 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.

Read all 37 reviews

Contributors & Developers

“WP-UserOnline” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Lester Chan

“WP-UserOnline” has been translated into 18 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “WP-UserOnline” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

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()