Visitor Maps and Who's Online - Wordpress Plugin by Mike Challis

Description:
Displays Visitor Maps with location pins, city, and country. Includes a Who's Online Sidebar to show how many users are online. Has a Who's Online admin dashboard to view visitor details. The visitor details include: what page the visitor is on, IP address, host lookup, online time, city, state, country, geolocation maps and more. No API key needed. Easy and Quick 4 step install.

Features:

• Configure Options from Admin panel.
• Who's Online Admin dashboard shows visitor details of search bots, members, guests, and you.
• Optional Who's Online widget for sidebar, or footer. Shows how many guests and members are viewing your blog.
• Enable display of city, state, and country flag.
• Enable geolocation for automatic location pin Visitor Maps.
• Enable "Who Is" lookup.
• Enable host lookups for IP addresses.
• Visitor details are stored in a database table for about 30 days.
• Uses GeoLiteCity data created by MaxMind, available from www.maxmind.com
• Valid coding for HTML and XHTML.
• I18n language translation support (see FAQ)

Installation:

1. Upload the `visitor-maps` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory, or install automatically through the `Plugins`, `Add New` menu in WordPress.
2. Activate the plugin through the `Plugins` menu in WordPress. Look for the Settings link to configure the Options.
3. To display visitor maps on your blog: add the shortcode `[visitor-maps]` in a Page(not a Post). That page will become your Visitor Maps page. Here is how: Log into your blog admin dashboard. Click `Pages`, click `Add New`, add a title to your page, enter the shortcode `[visitor-maps]` in the page, click `Publish`.
4. To add the Who's Online sidebar: Click on Appearance, Widgets, then drag the Who's Online widget to the sidebar column on the right.
5. Updates are automatic. Click on "Upgrade Automatically" if prompted from the admin menu.

Screenshots:

1. Who's Online sidebar
2. Visitor Maps Viewer
3. Visitor Maps page
4. View Who's Online Dashboard.
5. Settings
6. Adding the shortcode [visitor-maps] in a Page.
7. Adding the Who's Online sidebar

Requirements/Restrictions:

• Works with Wordpress 2.6+
• PHP 4.3.8 or above with GD2 library support.
• 30 megs of server space(with geolocation enabled)

Credits

• Programmed by Mike Challis, Contact Mike Challis
• Ported to Wordpress from the Free Who's Online PHP Script by Mike Challis
• Inspired by the osCommerce contribution Who's Online Enhancement
• Geolocation map images contributed by Jim McMurry jcweather.us
• Code sample for the map location pins contributed by pinto joske-online.be
• Uses GeoLiteCity data created by MaxMind, available from www.maxmind.com
• Thanks to all the users who contributed ideas or enhancements.

Visitor Maps and Who's Online - Wordpress Plugin: [download it] | [version change log] | [FAQ]

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If you find this site or the free PHP scripts useful to you, please consider making a small donation to help offset my time and the routine expenses of operation of this website. Thanks for your kind support! - Mike Challis

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