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

Present

lesterchan.net

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

201contributions

high162

medium39

score525

Last 90 days

203contributions

high164

medium39

score531

Last 12 months

222contributions

high183

medium39

score588

WordPress releases

Contributed to 2 releases

Contributions

Type

August 2026

Aug 19 Wed · 02:03

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Posted a reply to Invalid post ID error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @dtweney , it will be in the next release. I am just waiting for…

Aug 17 Mon · 14:10

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Posted a reply to IPv6 IP addresses, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
there is a problem with GitHub now https://www.githubstatus.com/

Aug 17 Mon · 12:48

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Posted a reply to IPv6 IP addresses, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks, switched to ipinfo.io, which handles both. There's also a new wp_useronline_ip_lookup_url filter if you'd…

Aug 15 Sat · 02:52

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Posted a reply to WP-Pagenavi and Polylang, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, it is one option row for the whole site, so putting Italian in the…

Aug 15 Sat · 02:22

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Posted a reply to Can WP-PostRatings import existing wpDiscuz ratings?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I will not be able to tell honestly. I recommending using AI to help you…

Aug 14 Fri · 14:58

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Posted a reply to Can WP-PostRatings import existing wpDiscuz ratings?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
wpDiscuz keeps every individual vote in wp_wc_users_rated, so you can build the real totals instead…

Aug 14 Fri · 14:42

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Posted a reply to WP-Pagenavi and Polylang, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
In Settings > PageNavi, are "Text For Number Of Pages" and "Text For Last Page"…

Aug 14 Fri · 00:55

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Posted a reply to Can WP-PostRatings import existing wpDiscuz ratings?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
nope no importer for this plugin. I recommend asking Claude to do it.

Aug 13 Thu · 00:47

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Posted a reply to Invalid post ID error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Noted, got the AI to fix it for 2.0.1. Just download https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-postratings/archive/refs/heads/master.zip and replace1. includes/class-wp-postratings-api.php‎2.…

Aug 13 Thu · 00:30

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Posted a reply to Invalid post ID error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the report — and for confirming the post ID, that helps rule things…