Lester Chan (@gamerz) – WordPress user profile

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

PRACTICE

1 badge

Support Contributor '26

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Editor '16

Current Job

CEO & Founder

Mar 2002 – Present

lesterchan.net · Full-time

I am the founder of lesterchan.net. lesterchan.net is my personal blog and portfolio site. I blog on a regular basis about gadgets, technology and gaming. I am also the author of many popular WordPress plugins such as WP-Polls, WP-PageNavi, WP-PostRatings, WP-PostViews, WP-DBManager, etc.

I also used to do freelance web developer during my school holidays, here are some of my freelance scripts which I coded for my personal use.

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

13contributions

high2

medium11

score17

Last 90 days

262contributions

high197

medium65

score656

Last 12 months

269contributions

high204

medium65

score677

WordPress releases

Contributed to 2 releases

Contributions

Type

October 2026

Oct 02 Fri · 14:31

Plugins high

Committed [3724973] to Plugins SVN:
Releasing wp-downloadmanager 2.0.2

Oct 02 Fri · 14:30

Plugins high

Committed [3724972] to Plugins SVN:
Deploying wp-downloadmanager from GitHub

Oct 01 Thu · 06:45

Forums med

Posted a reply to WP-DBManager 4.0.0, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Check with your host liking your PHP config is wrong as in your website is…

September 2026

Sep 22 Tue · 13:55

Forums med

Posted a reply to No attachment in backup email, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, I can't reproduce this on my end. The plugin passes the backup file to…

Sep 19 Sat · 16:17

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Posted a reply to No more Ids and no more icons, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can try https://www.svgrepo.com/ which I got from the previous thread. Licensing for SVG is…

Sep 18 Fri · 15:06

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Posted a reply to No more Ids and no more icons, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello, 1. Thats a bug, the ID column got dropped when I rewrote the Manage…

Sep 09 Wed · 06:20

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Posted a reply to Change icon style, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hmm you can add it in or add a css class and target it in…

Sep 08 Tue · 22:47

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Posted a reply to Change icon style, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can do it in Settings -> Templates. Replace %FILE_ICON% in the listing/embedded template with…

Sep 08 Tue · 15:53

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Posted a reply to BestRating in the structured data is set to 0 instead of 5, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks, that confirms it. Schema & Structured Data for WP & AMP reads the rating…

Sep 08 Tue · 15:12

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Posted a reply to BestRating in the structured data is set to 0 instead of 5, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the report — I need a bit more detail before I can tell…