Lester Chan
@gamerz on WordPress.org and Slack
- Member Since: September 18th, 2003
- Location: Singapore
- Website: lesterchan.net
- GitHub: lesterchan
- Job Title: CEO & Founder
- Employer: lesterchan.net
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Contribution History
Lester Chan’s badges:- Core Contributor
- Plugin Developer
- Translation Editor
- WordCamp Organizer
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Posted a reply to What PHP functions Does WP-DBManager Use?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Err, it is in the list. Do a Ctrl-F and find escapeshellcmd Quoting parts of… -
Posted a reply to What PHP functions Does WP-DBManager Use?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
escapeshellcmd -
Posted a reply to Polls Log votes, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
When you turn on only cookies, it will not log anything in the DB -
Posted a reply to Two polls on same page do not work as expected, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sadly due to technical limitations and my coding skill at that time, this is the… -
Posted a reply to Is this plugin abandoned?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Not really. There is nothing much to update if it works. -
Posted a reply to Delete all but last X revisions of all posts?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry that is not possible, the plugin is not designed for that usecase. -
Posted a reply to Translate My Poll?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It is not that straightforward since the plugin uses a template system, and sadly I… -
Posted a reply to Translate My Poll?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry, the plugin doesn't support Multilanguage. -
Committed [2848975] to Plugins SVN:
Deploying wp-commentnavi from GitHub -
Committed [2848297] to Plugins SVN:
Deploying wp-commentnavi from GitHub -
Committed [2845414] to Plugins SVN:
Deploying wp-showhide from GitHub -
Posted a reply to MySQL 8, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Personally, I am not using MySQL 8 but MariaDB 10.1, so my guess it should… -
Posted a reply to Orphaned Post Meta timing out?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yeap it timed out. A workaround is to increase the php timeout limit. This function… -
Posted a reply to Not currently compatible with Asgaros Forum(s), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It is already in the list https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-sweep/ -
Committed [2828351] to Plugins SVN:
Releasing plugin 1.69.1 -
Committed [2828350] to Plugins SVN:
Deploying wp-ban from GitHub -
Posted a reply to Is there anyway to export/import polls?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sadly no, because it requires too much work/effort/time. -
Posted a reply to Settings not being saved, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I just tried on my test install and I cannot reproduce your problem. -
Posted a reply to Weekly Email, but backup is empty, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
We will not know if the backup has failed, because, in this case, the backup… -
Posted a reply to Is it a must-keep plugin?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can uninstall it once the plugin has cleaned your data =) -
Posted a reply to Multisite Concerns / Considerations, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hmm I think there is only 1 query that targets all the tables which is… -
Posted a reply to Poll’s Logs total vote count doesn’t match Edit Pool total vote count, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Both are different stats. The first part is by calculating the logs. Do note that… -
Posted a reply to Security alerts about SQL-injections after “poll_id”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hmm, I am not aware of any, most if not all of the queries go… -
Posted a reply to Memcached, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello, The options sweep is for transient. So if you are using Memcache, it will… -
Posted a reply to Non-existing posts, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It query the DB directly. https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-sweep/blob/234c89e69e17d1f2ab3765c22676b2fd2d0e0c29/wp-sweep.php#L307 -
Committed [2812460] to Plugins SVN:
Releasing plugin 2.80.9 -
Committed [2812459] to Plugins SVN:
Deploying wp-dbmanager from GitHub -
Posted a reply to Count is not working in the Groups, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Are you sure you got the right plugin? This plugin does not have (forum, topic,… -
Posted a reply to Count is not working in the Groups, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This plugin is not designed for BBPress. I am assuming topics are posts in BBPress… -
Posted a reply to Bump to version WordPress 6.1, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Done! Thanks for keep motivating me to bump it =) -
Committed [2810555] to Plugins SVN:
Retagging plugin 1.1.5 -
Committed [2810554] to Plugins SVN:
Removing tag 1.1.5 -
Committed [2810553] to Plugins SVN:
Deploying wp-sweep from GitHub -
Committed [2794108] to Plugins SVN:
Releasing plugin 2.77.0 -
Committed [2794107] to Plugins SVN:
Deploying wp-polls from GitHub -
Posted a reply to Comment Ratings, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry that is not possible. There is no functionality in the plugin to support comment… -
Posted a reply to PHP 8+ Compatibility, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I am using this plugin with PHP 8.1, there are no issues. -
Posted a reply to Version 1.90 (updating), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Most likely, it is a cache on your end, or the files you downloaded are… -
Posted a reply to Title: apply_filters, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please do send in a PR https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-useronline =) -
Posted a reply to Version 1.90, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, here are the changeset https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-postratings/commit/7de3f345a8e7385f2db0c3d5a715d6722ae7b34d -
Committed [2778095] to Plugins SVN:
Releasing plugin 1.90 -
Committed [2778094] to Plugins SVN:
Deploying wp-postratings from GitHub -
Posted a reply to it doesnt work, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yeap, SELECT is not supported because it is too troublesome to build it, and hence… -
Posted a reply to Want to know if plugin is compatible with PHP 8.1, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
My test site https://lesterchan.net/wordpress/ is on PHP 8.1, no issue -
Posted a reply to Failed to verify referrer, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
WP-Polls code is dated and wasn't designed to work with any caching plugin. So sadly,… -
Committed [2770237] to Plugins SVN:
Releasing plugin 2.88.1 -
Committed [2770235] to Plugins SVN:
Deploying wp-useronline from GitHub -
Posted a reply to Failed to verify referrer, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This happens because the nonce has expired. So most of the time the cause is… -
Posted a reply to Menu is gone, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I think you got the file wrong? I think it is database-backup.php. I indeed miss… -
Committed [2758464] to Plugins SVN:
Releasing plugin 2.80.8
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