Real-Time Online Users

Real-Time Online Users - Displays the realtime number of online users on your Wordpress website

• Created: 12/31/2012
• latest Update: 01/03/2013
• By: Mahdi El Masaoudi
• pages.usherbrooke.ca/mel
• Email: mahdi.el.masaoudi@gmail.com

Summary

Real-Time Online Users is a Plugin / Widget for Wordpress that allows to display in real time the exact number of connected users to a Wordpress website.

The plugin provides the following options:

1. Show the total number of online users;
2. Show the number of registered users;
3. Show the number of guest users;
4. Show the list of online registered users.

The duration that the plugin uses to determines whether a user is online or not is configurable in the administration interface.

This Plugin is available as a wordpress Widget and can be managed like any other standard Wordpress Widget.

Prerequisites

The following items are required :

• WordPress (2.0.1 or higher, a recent version is recommanded);
• PHP 5;
• Javascript must be enabled.

Setup & Activation

The Installation and activation of the plugin are very simple :

1. Log on to the administrative interface of Wordpress (http://yourdomain.com/wp/wp-admin/);
2. Go to Plugins> Add New;

   

3. Click on Upload and choose the location where you placed the plugin temporarily on your computer (rtou_widget.zip);

   

4. In the plugins management interface in Wordpress admin interface, activate the plugin;

   

5. In the interface Appearance> Widgets, choose the location in which the widget should be placed;

   

Uninstall

To uninstall the plugin:

1. Go to the plugins management interface;
2. Click on Desactivate;

   

3. Click on delete.

   

jQuery

You do not have to worry about whether jQuery is installed or not in your Website (front-end).There are two possibilities:

1. If jQuery is installed on your website, the plugin uses the available jQuery version;
2. If jQuery is not present on your website, the plugin will integrates jQuery 1.7.1 to your front-end.

Customize the display

The display can be costumized thinks to the HTML structure of the Widget.

Here is the HTML structure:

Supported languages

For the moment, the plugin supports the following languages​​:

1. English;
2. French.

Changelog

1.0.0    initial version