WordPress is being used on a site I’m helping out on where we’re trying to get some accurate statistics from the users logged in on the site. Specifically, we want time they are active and we want to automatically log them out when they’re inactive.
I’ve seen several plugins that do auto-logout type things, but they only check on page load due to the nature of the PHP plugins being server side.
We need some client-side solution that logs them out when idle (potentially giving them a pop up to click so that they don’t get logged out).
I’ve seen some topics on this here:
php ajax auto logout with timer
How can I detect with JavaScript/jQuery if the user is currently active on the page?
But I’m not sure how I can apply this to every page on the wordpress site short of just editing the source. That’s possible of course, but I don’t think that’s the right solution.
So, I think I can handle the code to detect user activity, the topics I linked help with that. I’m not sure about actually logging out the user from the site. I’m not super familiar with jQuery and AJAX solutions, throwing WordPress into the mix doesn’t help much either.
