Lester Chan (@gamerz) – WordPress user profile

Member Since: September 18th, 2003
Location: Singapore
Website: lesterchan.net
GitHub: lesterchan
Job Title: CEO & Founder
Employer: lesterchan.net
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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.

Contribution History

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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.
3 weeks ago
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.
3 weeks ago
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…
3 weeks ago
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 =)
3 weeks ago
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…
3 weeks ago
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…
3 weeks ago
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…
4 weeks ago
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…
4 weeks ago
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
4 weeks ago
Committed [2812460] to Plugins SVN:
Releasing plugin 2.80.9
4 weeks ago
Committed [2812459] to Plugins SVN:
Deploying wp-dbmanager from GitHub
4 weeks ago
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,…
4 weeks ago
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…
1 month ago
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 =)
1 month ago
Committed [2810555] to Plugins SVN:
Retagging plugin 1.1.5
1 month ago
Committed [2810554] to Plugins SVN:
Removing tag 1.1.5
1 month ago
Committed [2810553] to Plugins SVN:
Deploying wp-sweep from GitHub
1 month ago
Committed [2794108] to Plugins SVN:
Releasing plugin 2.77.0
2 months ago
Committed [2794107] to Plugins SVN:
Deploying wp-polls from GitHub
2 months ago
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…
2 months ago
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.
2 months ago
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…
3 months ago
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 =)
3 months ago
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
3 months ago
Committed [2778095] to Plugins SVN:
Releasing plugin 1.90
3 months ago
Committed [2778094] to Plugins SVN:
Deploying wp-postratings from GitHub
3 months ago
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…
3 months ago
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
3 months ago
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,…
4 months ago
Committed [2770237] to Plugins SVN:
Releasing plugin 2.88.1
4 months ago
Committed [2770235] to Plugins SVN:
Deploying wp-useronline from GitHub
4 months ago
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…
4 months ago
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…
5 months ago
Committed [2758464] to Plugins SVN:
Releasing plugin 2.80.8
5 months ago
Committed [2758462] to Plugins SVN:
Deploying wp-dbmanager from GitHub
5 months ago
Committed [2758413] to Plugins SVN:
Releasing plugin 2.88.0
5 months ago
Committed [2758412] to Plugins SVN:
Deploying wp-useronline from GitHub
5 months ago
Posted a reply to Menu is gone, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What kind of role you have in WP? Are you on MultiSite? Are you able…
5 months ago
Posted a reply to Too many requests to admin-ajax.php, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It only calls admin-ajax.php when there is voting being made or when the user clicks…
5 months ago
Posted a reply to Some sort of conflict with iThemes Security, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, Because of a security issue flagged by Automattic, I have to change the capability…
5 months ago
Posted a reply to No longer usable, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, Because of a security issue flagged by Automattic, I have to change the capability…
5 months ago
Posted a reply to Menu is gone, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, Because of a security issue flagged by Automattic, I have to change the capability…
5 months ago
Committed [2758382] to Plugins SVN:
Releasing plugin 2.80.7
5 months ago
Committed [2758381] to Plugins SVN:
Deploying wp-dbmanager from GitHub
5 months ago
Committed [2758379] to Plugins SVN:
Deploying wp-dbmanager from GitHub
5 months ago
Committed [2757608] to Plugins SVN:
Releasing plugin 2.80.6
5 months ago
Committed [2757607] to Plugins SVN:
Deploying wp-dbmanager from GitHub
5 months ago
Posted a reply to Show only result values, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The ratings average is stored in the post meta, you can refer to the WP…
5 months ago
Posted a reply to Duplicated Post Meta sweep not doing anything, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I am not sure is there a way to optimize the query but I might…
5 months ago
Posted a reply to Duplicate content metadata cleaning does not work, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Looks like a server issue, you have to contact your host.
5 months ago