How to put a particular users "online/offline dot" in a new place?

[BirdOPrey5]

I don't think it's that easy because forumhome is outside a post, so you won't know what user is online or offline- it'a not like you give a function the username and it returns if they are online/offline... at least it doesn't work like that in a template- you'll need to write a plugin to get that info.

In the postbit the code is simply: {vb:raw post.onlinestatus}