What do you have in the settings area for the Member ID and is it a valid user? It looks like what I would expect if you had an invalid userid in there.

Everything is working great. :) I just had a question about the random member selection. Will it cycle through all of the members and not repeat anyone until it starts over again? Or is it truly random and some people could show up 3 times and others not at all? I have a member who has been in the spotlight twice now so I was wondering.

It selects all the users that fit the criteria in a random order. Then it cycles through the list and picks the first person that's a member of the allowed groups. So yes, someone could be selected a few times before someone gets picked once.

Thanks I updated, however now it appears like the cron never runs, due to the fact the user never changes.

I have even run the cron manually, and the user still does not change.

I have this set to daily:

When to run
Choose how often you want the scheduled task to run.

And I have not edited anything anywhere.

When I upgraded I chose overwrite in all incidences.

What does the scheduled task log for the spotlight say?

I like this plugin, but it's overkill for what I need. I can dissect the code and figure out how to make a query for this, but all I need is a sql query to give me a random user that's logged in say in the last week or month. Would it be possible to just give me that query?

Nice, Will try!

What info do you what? just the username? and which do you want, a week or a month.

Yep, just the random username of someone who was active within the week or month that the query is run in. I'm planning to make it into a cron job and just email me or somehow otherwise send me the name.

I want to use this to reward users for being online and logged in. I have a large number of users that visit my site, but don't log in.

Thank you so very much!