April 12, 2024

Visitors Online by BestWebSoft Plugin

Display live count of online visitors who are currently browsing your WordPress website.

Visitors Online plugin is a helpful tool which displays your website visitors count on WordPress admin dashboard or as a widget in the front-end.
Customize and manage your visitor statistic list, see how many visitors are on your website, and the highest level of visits.

Start tracking your live traffic today!

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Free Features

Automatically display visitor statistics on your dashboard
Add visitor statistics to widgets
Set the time when the visitor is considered being online without making any actions
Customize the structure for data input
Reset the statistics table
Add custom code via plugin settings page
Compatible with latest WordPress version
Incredibly simple settings for fast setup without modifying code
Detailed step-by-step documentation and videos
Multilingual and RTL ready

Pro Features
All features from Free version included plus:
Automatically download and update list of countries and IP addresses
Display detailed user information
Displays online users
Get answer to your question within one business day (Support Policy)
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If you have a feature suggestion or idea you’d like to see in the plugin, we’d love to hear about it! Suggest a Feature

Documentation & Videos

Help & Support

Visit our Help Center if you have any questions, our friendly Support Team is happy to help — https://support.bestwebsoft.com/

Translation

Arabic (ar) (thanks to Said Moulla, www.SaidMoulla.com)
Czech (cs_CZ) (thanks to PaMaDeSSoft, www.pamadessoft.cz)
Italian (it_IT) (thanks to Dromar)
Russian (ru_RU)
Ukrainian (uk)

Some of these translations are not complete. We are constantly adding new features which should be translated. If you would like to create your own language pack or update the existing one, you can send the text of PO and MO files to BestWebSoft and we’ll add it to the plugin. You can download the latest version of the program for work with PO and MO files Poedit.

Recommended Plugins

Updater – Automatically check and update WordPress website core with all installed plugins and themes to the latest versions.

Installation

Upload visitors-online folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin using the ‘Plugins’ menu in your WordPress admin panel.
You can adjust the necessary settings using your WordPress admin panel in “Visitors Online”.
Create a page or a post and insert the short-code [vstrsnln_info] into the text.
Add a widget Visitors Online to the Sidebar column.

View a Step-by-step Instruction on Visitors Online Installation

Screenshots

Displaying Visitors Online in the Sidebar on your WordPress website.
Displaying Visitors Online on the Dashboard.
Plugin Settings page.

FAQ

How It Works

the user will be displayed online, if he/she had left the site, but the time when the user is considered being online is not yet passed.
to define the user`s country, you will need to download the file according to the instruction https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sxxeDleJdPS8HvRdYwYSABQ586t1s-Z8r6wy55iXJCM/
if the number of visits from different countries is the same, the plugin will display several countries, but not more than three;
if the number of visits from different browsers is the same, the plugin will display several browsers, but not more than three

I get “Not enough rights to import from the IpToCountry.csv file” error. What shall I do?

You should set rights 755 to the folders wp-content, plugins, visitors-online and 644 to the IpToCountry.csv file. In such case the plugin’s script will have enough rights to upload the file. Here is some useful information for you https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions#Shared_Hosting_with_suexec.

Where can I find statistics?

You can see statistics on the admin panel, in any place of a post (if using shortcode), or in a widget (if this widget is added to the sidebar).

Why do the number of users online displayed in statistics is greater, than it actually is?

The user will be displayed online if he/she had left the site, but the time, when the user is considered being online, is not yet passed.

How bots are defined?

The plugin receives data from the server variable $_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’], and searches the resulting value in its list of the most common bots. Once a match was found, the visitor is considered being a bot.

Why the information about the day with the maximum number of visits does not match the number of actual visitors?

The plugin counts the number of the site visitors during the day. If the same user visits the site 5 times during the day, the plugin sees 5 visits, but not one. The visit means that a user enters the site or console as a guest user or bot, and stays within the time set on the plugin settings page. (The time period when the user is online, without making any actions).

How can I load GeoIP?

Download the necessary file by a link http://software77.net/geo-ip/?DL=2&x=Download.
Unzip the file IpToCountry.csv.zip to a folder {your_site_folder}/wp-content/plugins/visitor-online/geolite-country.
Go to the settings page of the plugin Visitors Online by a link http://{your_domain}/wp-admin/admin.php?page=visitors-online.php or Admin Panel->Visitors Online.
Find an option “Import Database” and click “Import” button.

I have some problems with the plugin’s work. What Information should I provide to receive proper support?

Please make sure that the problem hasn’t been discussed yet on our forum (https://support.bestwebsoft.com). If no, please provide the following data along with your problem’s description:

the link to the page where the problem occurs
the name of the plugin and its version. If you are using a pro version – your order number.
the version of your WordPress installation
copy and paste into the message your system status report. Please read more here: Instruction on System Status

Changelog

V1.1.4 – 05.03.2024

NEW : Аdded shortcode that displays online users.
Bugfix : Fixed bug with detailed information about roles in.
Bugfix : Fixed bug with shortcodes not working in new version WP.

V1.1.4 – 01.08.2022

NEW : A new shortcode for Visitors Online users info was added.
Update : BWS Panel section was updated.
Update : All functionality for WordPress 6.0.1 was updated.

V1.1.3 – 26.04.2022

Bugfix : Deactivation Feedback fix.

V1.1.2 – 23.03.2022

Update : Functionality for WordPress 5.9 was updated.
Update : BWS Panel section was updated.

V1.1.1 – 13.11.2020

Update : BWS Panel section was updated.
Update : Functionality for downloading and updating the country table was updated.

V1.1.0 – 31.08.2020

Update : All functionality for WordPress 5.5 was updated.
Update : BWS Panel section was updated.
Update : Settings page was updated.

V1.0.9 – 04.09.2019

Update: The deactivation feedback has been changed. Misleading buttons have been removed.

V1.0.8 – 12.08.2019

Update : BWS menu has been updated.
Bugfix : The bug related with database table prefix has been fixed.

V1.0.7 – 02.07.2019

Update : The plugin settings page has been changed.
Bugfix : The problem with import/update GeoIP databases was fixed.

V1.0.6 – 22.01.2019

PRO : Ability to display the list of users and information about each of them.
Update : All functionality for WordPress 5.0.3 was updated.

V1.0.5 – 03.01.2019

Update : All functionality for WordPress 5.0.2 was updated.

V1.0.4 – 19.07.2018

NEW : Ability to customize plugin data output using filters has been added.

V1.0.3 – 14.02.2018

Bugfix : The problem with data displaying in “Country” fields was fixed.
Update : All functionality for WordPress 4.9.4 was updated.

V1.0.2 – 09.01.2018

Bugfix : The problem with data displaying in “Country” and “Browser” fields was fixed.
Bugfix : Options removal from the database is fixed.

V1.0.1 – 10.07.2017

NEW : Ability to change the data structure has been added.

V1.0.0 – 17.04.2017

Bugfix : Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was fixed.

V0.9 – 14.12.2016

NEW: The Arabic language file was added.

V0.8 – 10.08.2016

NEW: The Italian language file was added.
Update : All functionality for WordPress 4.6 was updated.

V0.7 – 28.06.2016

Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.5.3.

V0.6 – 15.03.2016

NEW : Ability to add custom styles.
NEW : The Czech language file was added.

V0.5 – 02.12.2015

Bugfix : The bug with plugin menu duplicating was fixed.

V0.4 – 26.10.2015

NEW : A button for Visitors Online shortcode inserting to the content was added.
Bugfix : We fixed SQL injection vulnerability.
Bugfix : Widget displaying was fixed.

V0.3 – 02.09.2015

Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.3.

V0.2 – 03.07.2015

Update : The Ukrainian language file is updated.
Update : BWS plugins section is updated.

V0.1 – 25.05.2015

Bugfix : The code refactoring was performed.
NEW : Added detection of the country.