[thinkercorner11]

Hello there!

I was trying to integrate a code, so other users can see the last login of any user. The integration in the admin panel worked out with a snippet, which I found in the internet, but still, I couldn’t figure it out how to show it in the profile page.

The snippet, which I used is shown underneath (can be found here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-show-users-last-login-date-in-wordpress/). I did some changes in the function wpb_lastlogin:

<?php 
/**
 * Capture user login and add it as timestamp in user meta data
 *
 */
 
function user_last_login( $user_login, $user ) {
    update_user_meta( $user->ID, 'last_login', time() );
}
add_action( 'wp_login', 'user_last_login', 10, 2 );
 
/**
 * Display last login time
 *
 */
  
function wpb_lastlogin() { 
    $last_login = get_the_author_meta('last_login');
(also tried:      get_user_meta( $user_id 'last_login', true );
    $the_login_date = human_time_diff($last_login); - changed to: date_i18n(get_option('date_format'), $last_login);
    return $the_login_date; 
} 
 
/**
 * Add Shortcode lastlogin 
 *
 */
  
add_shortcode('lastlogin','wpb_lastlogin');
?>

This code above I have in my function.php file in my child theme. Till here everything works fine. Besides BBPress I use a forum theme (Disputo), where I want to integrate the last login in the profile page of the user. Therefore I was trying to figure out a code to do so. The page (as an example, my own user page) is: https://www.denkerecke.de/benutzer/lukas/. For that I was using the user-profile.php , which is also used by the theme. I also used the code from the website, which I mentioned before:

<?php echo 'Last seen: '. do_shortcode('[lastlogin]') .' ago'; ?>

Still, it didn’t work out. The problem is that on every user page only the last login of myself (the admin) is shown. I think its because somewhere in the code is a mistake, so not the user id of the user profile page is filtered, rather the user id of the current logged in user or the admin.

Does anyone have an idea to fix it? I would appreciate your help.

Greetings,
Lukas Herrmann

WordPress version: 5.6
bbPress version: 2.6.6

[Robin W]

suspect this is what you need – untested !!

$user_id = bbp_get_displayed_user_id() ;
$last_login = get_user_meta($user_id, 'last_login', true);

so if you go down the route you have, you’d add a second shortcode

function rew_lastlogin () {
	$user_id = bbp_get_displayed_user_id() ;
	$last_login = get_user_meta($user_id, 'last_login', true);
    $the_login_date = date_i18n(get_option('date_format'), $last_login);
   return $the_login_date; 
}

add_shortcode('bbp_lastlogin','rew_lastlogin');

and then use

<?php echo ‘Last seen: ‘. do_shortcode(‘[bbp_lastlogin]’) .’ ago’; ?>

[thinkercorner11]

Thanks for the fast reply, but unfortunately it didn’t work. It’s still showing my last login date everywhere. I have tried to look what login date will show, when I am not logged in, but it is showing the same, so I think it has something to do, that it is showing the admin last login (not the one of the current logged in user). One possibility also could be that some code of the theme is overriding the functions of bbPress, so I will ask the developer if there is any theme related code to get the user id.

[thinkercorner11]

Hmm, he said there is no function, which is overriding these functions, but he send me this code:

function wpb_lastlogin() { 
    $last_login = get_user_meta(bbp_get_displayed_user_field( 'ID' ), 'last_login', true);
    if ($last_login) {
        $the_login_date = date_i18n(get_option('date_format'), $last_login);
    } else {
        $the_login_date = 'The user is not logged in yet.';
    }
    return $the_login_date; 
}

But still not working. It also could be that I messed up the integration process a bit, because I used a plugin to save the last login in the admin panel, and after this I was trying to use the snippet. Is there a way to reset the last login metadata?

[Robin W]

that’s basically a rewrite of my code, so suggest that you have a problem somewhere.

You are putting this code in your functions file – yes ?

in which case can you show the actual code including the function/lines before it and after it

[thinkercorner11]

I fixed it 🙂 . Sorry, there was no problem with your code, or the code from the developer of the theme, there was a problem with a other plugin. I use the WordFence Security plugin, which also saves the last login metadata, but in a I different place, so I have deleted the first part of the snippet (which is saving the last login metadata) and changed

$last_login = get_user_meta($user_id, ‘last_login’, true);

to

$last_login = get_user_meta( $user_id, ‘wfls-last-login’, true);

So thanks for the help, looks like the problem is solved.

[Robin W]

great – glad you are fixed 🙂