Displaying Last Login Time of Users in WordPress

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Displaying Last Login Time of Users in WordPress

October 21, 2016
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Member oriented and user profile managing sites may need the functionality of showing last login of users on their WordPress Dashboard. Using wp_login hook, last login display functionality can be achieved easily.

To record the user activity of last login, you need to add the following code in your functions.php file:

<?php 

function user_last_login_record( $user_login, $user ) {
    update_user_meta( $user->ID, 'last_login', time() );
}
add_action( 'wp_login', 'user_last_login_record', 10, 2 );

?>

<?php

function user_last_login_record( $user_login, $user ) {

update_user_meta( $user->ID, 'last_login', time() );

}

add_action( 'wp_login', 'user_last_login_record', 10, 2 );

The following code will return the last login time. You can use it directly in your theme template by calling the function. Additionally, it will register a shortcode for the same function so that it can be inserted later in WordPress back-end pages/posts.

<?php

function wpb_last_login_time() { 
	$last_login = get_the_author_meta('last_login');
	$the_login_date = human_time_diff($last_login);
	return $the_login_date; 
} 
 
 add_shortcode('last-login-time','wpb_lastlogin');
?>

<?php

function wpb_last_login_time() {

$last_login = get_the_author_meta('last_login');

$the_login_date = human_time_diff($last_login);

return $the_login_date;

}

add_shortcode('last-login-time','wpb_lastlogin');

To display last login time, insert the registered shortcode i.e. [last-login-time] in back-end pages/post. Use the following command to insert the shortcode in template files:

<?php echo 'Last seen: '. do_shortcode('[last-login-time]') .' ago'; ?>

1	<?php echo 'Last seen: '. do_shortcode('[last-login-time]') .' ago'; ?>