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

58contributions

high33

medium25

score124

Last 90 days

256contributions

high195

medium61

score646

Last 12 months

265contributions

high204

medium61

score673

WordPress releases

Contributed to 2 releases

Contributions

Type

September 2026

Sep 09 Wed · 06:20

Forums med

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

Forums med

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

Forums med

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

Forums med

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…

Sep 08 Tue · 00:21

Forums med

Posted a reply to Translation of “You Had Already Rated This Post”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It is not a setting, it is a translated string. Translate it here and it…

Sep 06 Sun · 03:16

Forums med

Posted a reply to Can WP-PostRatings import existing wpDiscuz ratings?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@vijaiya did you delete the plugin and re-upload it or you just overwrite the plugin…

Sep 05 Sat · 11:29

Forums med

Posted a reply to Can WP-PostRatings import existing wpDiscuz ratings?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for reporting. WP-PostRatings has never support caching plugin. But since AI makes it easier…

Sep 01 Tue · 19:07

Plugins high

Committed [3676724] to Plugins SVN:
Releasing wp-draftsforfriends 2.0.2

Sep 01 Tue · 19:07

Plugins high

Committed [3676723] to Plugins SVN:
Deploying wp-draftsforfriends from GitHub

Sep 01 Tue · 19:07

Plugins high

Committed [3676721] to Plugins SVN:
Releasing wp-stats 3.0.1