Display live count of online visitors who are currently browsing your WordPress website.
As of April 2026, Visitors Online by BestWebSoft is a WordPress guests plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 3.5/5 rating from 11 reviews. It has been downloaded 82K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Downloads are up 16% this week. Top alternative: Seriously Simple Speakers.
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!
I had high hopes for the Visitors Online plugin by BestWebSoft, but it turned out to be way too complicated to use. The plugin shows live visitor counts, which is great, but the data structure is a huge issue. It gives you the option to make changes in the settings, but if you actually use that feature, the whole thing breaks. There’s a list of “allowed variables” you’re supposed to be able to edit, like removing bots, guests, or max visits. However, if you delete too many—especially if you try to remove everything except “visitors online”—it stops working and just shows zero visitors.
The only way to make changes without breaking it is to remove one or two things at a time, saving after each change. Even then, it still breaks if you remove more than three items. You also have to constantly clear your cache and reset the settings just to keep it running. I don’t understand why the plugin says it allows these changes if doing so causes it to fail. I just wanted a simple live visitor counter, but this plugin makes it way too hard.
Bottom line: It’s not worth the hassle. The plugin doesn’t even work with its own rules.
Il plugin registra tantissimi utenti iscritti, ma in realtà non ci sono. Sono sicura perchè ho testato in contemporanea con atri tools
Plugin occassionally starts counting every visitors but forgot to remove old ones. In effect I see a lot of visitors, but it isn’t true.
Excelente, Muy sencillo para implementar y funciona con WordPress 611!
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| WordPress | 5.6+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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