by Lester Chan 4.6 (38 reviews)

WP-UserOnline

Name: WP-UserOnline
Rating: 4.6 (38 reviews)
Author: Lester Chan

Enable you to display how many users are online on your WordPress site with detailed statistics.

WP-UserOnline ranks #1,786 among WordPress.org plugins with 10,000+ active installations, is #251 of 8,547 in the Customization category, a 4.6/5 rating from 38 reviews, and was last updated Sep 2, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v4.0.2 Current Version v4.0.2

Updated 2 weeks ago Last Update on 02 Sep, 2026

Refreshed 11 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#251 of 8,547 in Customization Top 5% by installs Downloads -83.9% this week Actively maintained

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Rank

#1,786

-3 this week

Active Installs

10K+

-35.7%

KW Avg Position

32.2

0.2 better

Downloads

984.6K

+95 today

Support Resolved

100%

— No change

Rating

92%

Review 4.6 out of 5

4.6 (38 reviews)

Next Milestone 20K

Total Progress 54.4%

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Reviews & Ratings

4.6

38 reviews

Overall 92%

29 (76%)

6 (16%)

1 (3%)

0 (0%)

2 (5%)

Support Threads Overview

Resolved

Unresolved

Total Threads

Resolved

Unresolved

100%

Resolution Rate

Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

6 known vulnerabilities on record · 0 in the last 24 months · checked 1 week ago

Nov 6, 2023

WP-UserOnline [wp-useronline] < 2.88.3 (closed)

CVE-2023-5560 · Fixed in v2.88.3
Aug 22, 2022

WP-UserOnline [wp-useronline] < 2.88.1 (closed)

CVE-2022-2941 · Fixed in v2.88.1
Jul 19, 2022

WP-UserOnline [wp-useronline] < 2.88.0 (closed)

CVE-2022-2473 · Fixed in v2.88.0
Jul 27, 2016

WP-UserOnline [wp-useronline] < 2.70 (closed)

Fixed in v2.70
Jul 1, 2010

WP-UserOnline [wp-useronline] < 2.70 (closed)

Fixed in v2.70
WP-UserOnline [wp-useronline] < 2.70 (closed)

Fixed in v2.70

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Plugin Details

Version: 4.0.2
Last Updated: Sep 02, 2026
Requires WP: 6.8+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 8.2 or higher
Author: Lester Chan

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6
Reviews: 38
Support Threads: 3
Resolved: 100%

Keywords

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who want to show visitor activity to their audience. It solves the problem of displaying how many users are currently online along with details about who they are, such as members, guests, or search bots.

Displays number of users online
Detailed visitor statistics
Identifies members, guests, bots
Widget for Appearance menu
Manual template tag usage

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about WP-UserOnline

Anyone with manage_options, which in practice means administrators. Before 4.0.0 the screen was open to anyone who could list_users, which on many sites included editors. To put it back that way, filter the capability — the context tells the Users Online tab from the other two, and each tab checks its own, so this does not open the settings at the same time: add_filter( 'wp_useronline_capability', function ( $capability, $context ) { return 'useronline' === $context ? 'list_users' : $capability; }, 10, 2 );

Yes. Each address in the detailed listing links to a lookup at ipinfo.io, which answers for IPv4 and IPv6 alike. Before 4.0.1 it went to a service that could not read an IPv6 address at all. To send it somewhere else, filter the URL — the address arrives raw as the second argument, so encode it however the service you pick wants it: add_filter( 'wp_useronline_ip_lookup_url', function ( $url, $ip ) { return 'https://who.is/whois-ip/ip-address/' . rawurlencode( $ip ); }, 10, 2 ); Return an empty string to drop the link entirely and show the address as plain text,

add_filter( 'wp_useronline_ip_lookup_url', '__return_empty_string' );

Yes. wp_useronline_bots filters the whole list, whose keys are the names shown in the users online list and whose values are the case-insensitive fragment looked for in the user agent: add_filter( 'wp_useronline_bots', function ( $bots ) { $bots['My Crawler'] = 'mycrawler'; return $bots; } ); My own code renders the counters and they never refresh The refresh script loads only when something on the page has already rendered a counter or a listing, and it is enqueued from wp_footer — the one pass. Markup fetched over admin-ajax.php or the REST API into a page that shows none of its own reaches neither: the fetch has no footer to enqueue into, and the page rendered nothing to ask. The numbers then sit at whatever they were when the markup was built. Say so from the page that will hold them: add_filter( 'wp_useronline_needs_scripts', '__return_true' ); Code that runs during the page itself can call WP_UserOnline_Template::request_scripts() instead, which is the same request every built-in render path makes. The plugin will not activate WP-UserOnline 4.0 and later requires WordPress 6.8 and PHP 8.2. WordPress checks both and refuses to activate the plugin on anything older, telling you which one is short. To see what your host is running, look at Tools -> Site Health -> Info -> Server, or install WP-ServerInfo. If you cannot upgrade, WP-UserOnline 3.0.0 is the last release supporting WordPress 6.0 and PHP 7.4.