Content Aware Sidebars – Fastest Widget Area Plugin vs WP-UserOnline

Content Aware Sidebars is the #1 WordPress Sidebar Plugin You can optimize conversion rates, boost on-site SEO, upsell products, and much more by displaying different widget areas on different conditions. Create tailored widget areas in seconds. No widget logic coding required. Show or Hide Widgets on Any Page (Yes, any) Replace your theme sidebars on different conditions, or insert widget areas with shortcodes. The following Display Conditions are available out of the box: Posts, Pages & Custom Post Types Content with Tags, Categories, or Custom Taxonomies Content written by select Authors Page Templates Blog Page & Post Type Archives Author Archives Taxonomy Archives Front Page, Search Results, 404 Not Found Page bbPress Profiles, Forums & Topics BuddyPress Profile Sections Languages (Polylang, qTranslate X, TranslatePress, Transposh, Weglot, WPML) Pods Pages You can even combine conditions in any way you like! E.g. target all posts in a select category and written by a specific author. Add Unlimited Sidebars & Widget Areas Create a post sidebar, a page sidebar, a category sidebar, or any custom sidebar you need – no coding required. CAS will never slow down your site, even if you create a lot of custom sidebars and conditions. Sidebars – Quick Select© lets you add or select widget areas directly when editing a post or page. Schedule & Disable Custom Sidebars In the All-in-one Sidebar Manager you just pick a start and end date for when widget areas should be displayed, and CAS will take care of the rest. 1-Click Sidebar Activation© lets you activate or deactivate widget areas instantly. The Most User-friendly Widget Manager When adding new widgets to sidebars, Live Search will find widgets instantly, and the smart split-screen makes it a joy to manage a lot of widgets and sidebars. The Enhanced Widget Manager adds the signature turquoise line to easily identify custom sidebars. Sidebar Plugin Integrations & Support CAS autodetects Custom Post Types and Taxonomies created by any plugin or theme. Built-in support for some of the most popular WordPress plugins means that you e.g. can create WooCommerce sidebars for select products or BuddyPress sidebars for your members. bbPress BuddyPress / BuddyBoss Easy Digital Downloads qTranslate X Pods Polylang TranslatePress Transposh Translation Filter WooCommerce Weglot WPML Customize Your Widget Areas Your Way Without writing any code, you can modify the HTML and CSS classes of widget areas, widgets, and widget titles. You get full control over the look and feel of your sidebars and widget areas, no matter what theme you use. Sidebar Visibility lets you elegantly hide any widget area for logged-out users. Complete control over your WordPress widget areas Upgrade to Content Aware Sidebars Pro and get these additional powerful features: Totem – Smart Floating Button Like the button you may have seen by Intercom or Helpscout, only this is for all your widgets Sticky Sidebars & Widget Areas Make any sidebar or widget area sticky without hurting site performance. No jQuery and no bloat Widget Areas after Paragraphs Display a widget area after a specific number or percentage of paragraphs in your content Even More Display Conditions Advanced Custom Fields data Meta Box data URLs + wildcards Referrer URLs Date Archives & Content by publish date BuddyPress Groups Random Widget Area Designer Add responsive widget columns and edit colors, backgrounds, paddings, etc. Widget Areas in Theme Hooks Intelligently infuse new widget areas into your theme without coding Automatic Widgets Backup Easily restore any changed or deleted widgets Widget Cleaner Save memory and remove clutter by disabling and removing unused widgets Extended User Visibility Show or hide widget areas for User Roles, BuddyPress Groups, and more Time & Weekday Schedule Display widget areas only in select time ranges on given days Container Widget Turn widget areas into reusable blocks and show the same widgets in different places Duplicate Widget Areas A real time-saver when adding new similar widget areas and so much more… Upgrade at anytime instantly and securely from your website’s Admin Dashboard. More Information Documentation GitHub Twitter

WP-UserOnline shows how many people are on your site right now, and where they are. Members are named, guests and search bots are counted, and the whole thing refreshes itself in the background without a page reload. Features A counter, a “who is browsing this page” line and a “who is browsing the site” line, each usable on its own. A full users online page, listing every visitor with the page they are on, where they came from and when they arrived. A sidebar widget offering any of those five combinations. Every string is a template you can edit, so the wording is yours rather than the plugin’s. Around three hundred search bots recognised by user agent, and a filter for adding your own. One admin screen with three tabs — who is online now, the settings, the templates — plus a line in the Dashboard’s At a Glance panel. A section on the WP-Stats page when that plugin is installed. 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 will really appreciate it. If not feel free to use it without any obligations. Usage The simplest way is the widget. Go to WP-Admin -> Appearance -> Widgets, add the UserOnline widget to a sidebar, and pick which of the five statistics types it should show. A classic theme can call the template tags directly instead, anywhere in sidebar.php, header.php or a template part: Users online: The element ids matter: useronline-count, useronline-browsing-site, useronline-browsing-page and useronline-details are what the refresh script looks for. A figure printed outside one of them is correct when the page loads and then stays where it is. To give visitors a page of their own listing everyone online, create a page and put the shortcode in it: [page_useronline] Everything the plugin has is at WP-Admin -> WP-UserOnline, on three tabs: Users Online for who is here right now, Settings, and Templates for the wording of everything the plugin prints. Showing Users Online In A Block One block is available in the editor, under Widgets: Users Online — everyone on the site right now, grouped into members, guests and bots, with the page each of them is reading and the most-ever-online record underneath. The same listing [page_useronline] produces. It renders on the server, so the preview in the editor is the real listing rather than an approximation, and the page updates itself while a visitor is reading it exactly as the shortcode’s does. Only one goes in a post: the listing carries its own useronline-details element and the refresh script finds it by that name. Rendering it records nobody. Previewing the block in the editor does not add you to the figures you are previewing, however many times the preview refreshes — visitors are recorded when a page is loaded, not when the listing is drawn. The shortcode still works and is not going anywhere. [page_useronline] behaves exactly as it always has, and a page already containing it needs no change. The block calls the same code the shortcode calls, so the two render identically — use whichever suits the page. WP-CLI wp useronline list wp useronline list --format=count wp useronline count The command reads and never writes. The table maintains itself — every visit purges rows that have timed out — and the admin screen offers no destructive action, so neither does the command. REST API GET /wp-json/useronline/v1/count POST /wp-json/useronline/v1/visit count reports how many are online now, the record and its date, and records nobody — so a monitoring script polling it does not appear in the figure it is reading. `visit` is the heartbeat: it records the caller and answers with one of the four views, given a `mode` of `count`, `browsing-site`, `browsing-page` or `details`, plus the `page_url` they are on. Neither route takes a nonce, and that is deliberate. A nonce cannot authenticate a logged-out visitor: anonymous nonces come from one session every such caller shares, so requiring one would prove nothing while breaking every visitor who is not signed in. A page_url that does not resolve to this site is ignored, and a heartbeat writes nothing but the caller’s own row. These routes are an addition. The admin-ajax.php wp_useronline action is unchanged and still supported.