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Lester Chan

CEO & Founder at lesterchan.net

@gamerz Singapore joined Sep 2003

lesterchan.net github.com/lesterchan Slack: @gamerz
    Languages zh_CN

    Bio

    I am quite a fussy person and may like to complain a lot. Maybe I aim for perfection and wants everything to be done my way or what I expect it to be. I admit I am an impatient person as I do things very fast and within the shortest time possible. My friends always say I eat, drink, walk and talk very fast. Well, that’s me.

    Interests

    Web Development/Programming, Music, Computer Games, Movies, Food, Sleep, Slack, Gadgets

    WordPress Origin Story

    I have been coding in PHP for more than 10 years. My first WordPress plugin was back in 2003 when WordPress was forked from b2. The reason I started creating WordPress plugins is because there are a few features like Polls and UsersOnline found in popular forums like vBulletin/IP Board not present in WordPress. I needed those features to engage my readers and hence I decided to create it and share it within the WordPress community as a plugin.

    Badges

    CODE
    2 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Organizer '15
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Editor '16

    Current Job

    CEO & Founder
    Present
    lesterchan.net

    Recent impact

    Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

    Last 30 days
    0contributions
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    medium0
    score0
    Last 90 days
    2contributions
    high2
    medium0
    score6
    Last 12 months
    21contributions
    high21
    medium0
    score63

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 2 releases
    • 5.6
    • 5.5

    Contributions

    Type
    May 2026
    May 25 Mon · 08:46
    Plugins high
    Committed [3547170] to Plugins SVN:
    Releasing plugin 1.1.9
    May 25 Mon · 08:45
    Plugins high
    Committed [3547167] to Plugins SVN:
    Deploying wp-sweep from GitHub
    February 2026
    Feb 13 Fri · 01:54
    Plugins high
    Committed [3460449] to Plugins SVN:
    Releasing plugin 1.69.1
    Feb 13 Fri · 01:54
    Plugins high
    Committed [3460447] to Plugins SVN:
    Deploying wp-downloadmanager from GitHub
    January 2026
    Jan 16 Fri · 01:48
    Plugins high
    Committed [3440720] to Plugins SVN:
    Deploying wp-postviews from GitHub
    November 2025
    Nov 28 Fri · 12:08
    Plugins high
    Committed [3405135] to Plugins SVN:
    Releasing plugin 1.06
    Nov 28 Fri · 12:08
    Plugins high
    Committed [3405134] to Plugins SVN:
    Deploying wp-showhide from GitHub
    September 2025
    Sep 20 Sat · 06:52
    Plugins high
    Committed [3364848] to Plugins SVN:
    Releasing plugin 1.69
    Sep 20 Sat · 06:51
    Plugins high
    Committed [3364847] to Plugins SVN:
    Deploying wp-downloadmanager from GitHub
    August 2025
    Aug 31 Sun · 05:28
    Plugins high
    Committed [3353237] to Plugins SVN:
    Retagging plugin 1.78 readme.txt

    Developer

    22 plugins

    Contributor

    1 plugin

    Plugins

    22 favorites

    Translations

    2 locales
    zh_HK 香港中文 (Chinese) General Translation Editor

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    zh_CN 简体中文 (Chinese) Plugins Translation Editor

    Translation editor for 1 project.

    WP-PostRatings

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