“User Online” Page Created

Wed, Mar 28, 2007

I installed a “who’s online” plugin it’s also “widget” enabled so it’s a simple plugin to install, just a case of uploading it to the “plugins” directory on my server and then activating it in the dashboard. This plugin came with a handy feature so that when you click on the “user online” logo at the bottom of my side bar, I have set up a page where it shows anyone who’s interested, who’s online on my blog, the most people I’ve had online all at once to date is 6 – which is pretty good!

To create the page it was part of the plugin, I just headed over to “write page” in the dashboard and then posted a page with the code: [pollarchive] and it set it up for me.

I ran into a slight problem. As my pages are displayed across my top bar (header) of my page adding the page to the published pages added a line of “tabs” and put the spacing out. Rather than change the CSS to make the page tab fonts smaller (which I could do) I decided to try to create the page with no title, as I love the way it looks and don’t want to change it. With no title it displayed a small blank tab, but kept the spacing on the page, ok but not perfect, then I tried re creating the page but not publishing it so it’s solely accessed via the click from the plugin. Sure enough it works perfectly. On clicking the “Who’s Online” button at the bottom of my sidebar it shows the page, it also doesn’t show up on the tabs at the top at all, I’ve also checked it on all browsers and it’s fine… perfect