Amzil Ayoub

<p>Real-time user status indicators for WordPress admin. Displays 🟢 (online) or 🔴 (offline) badges next to users, automatically updating every 30 seconds. Optimized for high-performance on large sites.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Visual status indicators (green/red circles)</li>
<li>Tracks all user activity (frontend and admin)</li>
<li>Auto-updates without page reloads</li>
<li>Lightweight (single optimized SQL query)</li>
<li>Works with 30,000+ users</li>
<li>Zero configuration needed</li>
</ul>


Session Monitor

This plugin adds real-time user status indicators to the WordPress admin users list. It  tracks activity with minimal impact, even on large sites.

jamiewilson

<p>Gatekeeper allows administrators to take a WordPress site offline quickly and easily while leaving it fully accessible to administrators and other authorized users. Site visitors will be shown or redirected to a specified offline page. An optional blacklist can be used for permanent bans.</p>
<p>** Features **</p>
<ul>
<li>Visitors can either be redirected to an existing non-WordPress offline page (using http 302 temporary redirect) or WordPress pages can be temporarily replaced with the offline page.</li>
<li>Logged in admins can be whitelisted</li>
<li>The current admin’s IP address can be automatically whitelisted</li>
<li>An IP-based whitelist that can accept specific IP addresses, wildcards, and ranges</li>
<li>A basic IP-based blacklist that redirects blacklisted IPs to a specified page (not to be used for security)</li>
<li>A notifier that appears on administrator pages when the site is offline</li>
</ul>


Gatekeeper

Gatekeeper allows administrators to take a WordPress site offline while leaving it accessible to authorized users for maintenance, testing, etc.

Session Monitor vs Gatekeeper