How to Know Which User is Logged in to Your WordPress

If you’re running a blog, most probably you have different users to work on your blog like contributors, authors, and editors. If so, you would definitely want to know which of the users of your blog are working right now. But, unfortunately, there is no option in WordPress to know which user is logged in to WordPress at any point in time. Still, if you need to know which of your blog’s contributors, editor, or author is logged in right now, you can use a plugin called Simple History.

With the help of this Simple History WordPress plugin, you can check out which users of your blog are currently logged into WordPress and even more information. In fact, you can monitor the overall user activity in WordPress with this plugin such as when a user logs in to WordPress, when someone fails to login, or when someone updates any post, etc.

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Check Which User is Currently Logged into Your WordPress

Here are the complete steps for you to learn how to monitor user activity in WordPress. Firstly, you’ll have to install the Simple History WordPress plugin and then you’ll need to set it up. After setting up the plugin you’ll be ready to know which users are currently logged in and other activities of your WordPress blog users.

Step #1: Install & Activate the Simple History WordPress Plugin

It’s the primary step, as I told you above. So, just visit THIS PAGE and download this plugin in your computer. And then upload it in your WordPress by navigating to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin. Or you can search for this plugin directly inside your WordPress by going to Plugins > Add New, and here you can search for the plugin by its name.

After installing the plugin, just activate it so that it can start monitoring the activity of your WordPress users.

Step #2: Setup the Simple History WordPress Plugin

There is nothing special or any difficult task in setting up this plugin. It’s very, very easy. To set up the Simple History WordPress plugin, go to Settings > Simple History. Here you will see the following screen in which primarily you’ll have to choose where you wanna show the history of your users’ activity i.e. on the dashboard or as a page under the dashboard menu. Here you can both or anyone you want.

You can also choose how many numbers of items you wanna show per page. You can choose from 5 to 100 from the dropdown menu.

That’s all about setting up the plugin. After doing this, you can save the changes. One more thing here I wanna tell you that all the items (user’s history notifications) saved in your database will be automatically removed after 60 days or you can anytime delete them manually from this Clear log now button, which you can see on the settings of this plugin.

Step #3: Go to the dashboard and start monitoring the activity

The third step is just the finalization of this article. In fact, after setting up the Simple History WordPress plugin, go to your WordPress dashboard and start monitoring the activity of your WordPress users. Here you can know who was logged in to your WordPress and who’s currently logged in and even more user activities.

That’s all. I’m sure after reading this article, you’ll be able to check which user is logged into your blog’s WordPress account by using the Simple History plugin.