Display a list of non-logged in visitors who have viewed a post WordPress

Francisco Javier Carazo Gil answers:

You cannot identify an user using their IP because this can be shared between thousend who use CG-NAT for example.

About cookies... what are you going to write/read in this cookie? Some kind of random value unique for each user maybe.

Why don't you use some kind of analytics service?

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Navjot Singh answers:

Do consider the privacy implications of trying to identify non-logged visitors especially in today's world. Google or Matomo Analytics in itself should be sufficient to track user behaviour (it comes with ample features) without the need to maintain a user list where you need to place a tracking cookie.

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Monit Jadhav answers:

I found two such plugins that can help you with some tweaks

https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-visit-counter/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wps-visitor-counter/

The page visit counter plugin gets more data from the visit so may be you can use that data on the frontend.

See the fields below

id
page_id
user_id
user_role
date
lastdate
ipaddress
country
browser_full_name
browser_short_name
browser_version
os
http_referer
type

I want all the visitors displayed by some way that can give each visitor a unique name e.g. IP, cookie?

I don't Know how will you get their names? By default the users gets a user_role as guest which you can change

Inside Page visit Counter go to public directory then class-page-visit-counter-public.php

page-visit-counter\public\class-page-visit-counter-public.php

Line number 230-236

if ( $user_id ) {
$user = get_userdata( $user_id );
$user_roles_arr = $user->roles;
$user_role = $user_roles_arr[0];
} else {
$user_role = 'guest';
}

Here you can generate random names assign to a variable and replace $user_role with that variable.

You can create a array randomizer of random names see the link below

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4233407/get-random-item-from-array

Hope this can give the guests unique names and you can query the database table "wp_page_visit_history"

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Bob answers:

This plugin has widget which you can put in footer widget of your theme.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-statistics/

It has bunch of options to show users.

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pjeaje answers:

I think all I need is each visitor is given a permanent cookie, and that cookie is stored in the post's meta. If there could be a pop up to get the visitor to name their own cookie then that would be ideal.

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