Lester Chan – @gamerz | WordPress.org

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

Core Contributor
Plugin Developer
Translation Editor
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Posted a reply to Update WordPress 5.5, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There is nothing being changed besides the version bump to indicate it is compatible. So…

24 hours ago
Posted a reply to “Sweep All” button not working, and no action is carried out, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
hmm I think you mistaken, optimize table doesn't delete the table. It runs its query…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to “Sweep All” button not working, and no action is carried out, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Nah, I don't think I will give it up as long as I am still…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Plugin Revision/Update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It works with 5.5, I am just occupied to bump the version.

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to “Sweep All” button not working, and no action is carried out, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Most likely it has timeout due to too much data or the timeout is too…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Wrong Path To Backup after moving to new host, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
My only guess is something is caching the options on your end? I am 100%…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to How to display Total Average?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Code is here https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-postratings/blob/master/postratings-manager.php#L226-L235

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to How to display the number of clicks on plus and minus?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry that is not possible as the plugin is not designed to do that from…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to How to display Total Average?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
<?php echo get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'ratings_average', true ); ?>

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Share, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Unlikely, I have no more time to add any new features to it sadly.

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Share, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry, Nope. That is not what the plugin is designed for.

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Creating problem with wp-config.php not loading?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I am not sure whether WP-DatabaseManager exists, this is WP-DBManager and it doesn't touch wp-config.php.

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Cannot download backup files, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Probably check your server logs, this looks like a server/config issue rather than a plugin…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Custom Template?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry nope. The templates are global. You can't customized it.

1 month ago
Posted a reply to wordpress 5.5.x compability, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
For breaking changes, I will normally release immediately like my WP-Email is breaking changes with…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to wordpress 5.5.x compability, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It is already compatible. I just have not bump the version number yet.

2 months ago
Posted a reply to rounded view, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry that is not possible without modifying the code.

2 months ago
Posted a reply to rounded view, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
My guess you are using %VIEW_COUNT_ROUNDED% instead of %VIEW_COUNT% in the template. Which is weird…

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, PTE Request for WP-PostRatings, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hello Polyglots, I am the plugin author for WP-PostRatings (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-postratings/). We have a translation editor…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to FIX PHP Notice, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-postratings/commit/790352e33449bd00eb2df9ad0a4a96b22e9e4ddf

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Idea for using own file images, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, I added wp_downloadmanager_file_extension_image (https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-downloadmanager/commit/6b5dcec51c351e9faa07a8d3e0894b64235f40bb) and wp_downloadmanager_file_extension_images_path (https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-downloadmanager/commit/d55b2634d364de6200d607a3e90ae9a87ea45c88). You can download the dev version https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-downloadmanager/archive/master.zip…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Only Administator role can rate, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It seems to be a Javascript error. https://wordpress.org/support/article/using-your-browser-to-diagnose-javascript-errors/

2 months ago
Posted a reply to One voter have three points, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry, the plugin is not designed for this use case.

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Plugin does not activate, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the bug report, I have fixed it in 2.68.1

2 months ago
Committed [2365398] to Plugins Trac:
Releasing plugin 2.68.1

2 months ago
Committed [2365397] to Plugins Trac:
Deploying wp-email from GitHub

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Email To Audience Autoresponder, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry, nope. The plugin is not designed for that use case.

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Answers in 2 columns ?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry, nope. The plugin is not designed for that use case.

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Review snippets  Invalid object type for field “itemReviewed”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Changing the type is not a good idea because if Google realized the type is…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Wp-Sweep Specify Revisions to keep, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry that is not possible.

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post New XML Sitemaps Functionality in WordPress 5.5, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Saw it being filed on Trac https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/50910

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post New XML Sitemaps Functionality in WordPress 5.5, on the site Make WordPress Core:
It is a bug https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/50910 =)

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post New XML Sitemaps Functionality in WordPress 5.5, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Is it me or is WordPress 5.5 sitemaps page 2 onwards broken due to canonical…

2 months ago
Created a topic, wp_cache_get_multiple() after upgrading to WP 5.5, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Cross-posting from https://github.com/rhubarbgroup/red…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Introduce wp_cache_get_multiple() in WordPress Core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Not sure if anyone has always a cache miss with wp_cache_get_multiple() for redis-cache https://github.com/rhubarbgroup/redis-cache/issues/243

2 months ago
Committed [2358834] to Plugins Trac:
Releasing plugin 2.56

2 months ago
Committed [2358832] to Plugins Trac:
Deploying wp-stats from GitHub

2 months ago
Closed ticket #50926, in Core Trac:
Page 2 onwards of any wp-sitemap.xml URL will result in a 404 redirect

2 months ago
Created a new ticket, #50926, in Core Trac:
Page 2 onwards of any wp-sitemap.xml URL will result in a 404 redirect

2 months ago
Posted a reply to WordPress 5.5 Working perfect, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for testing! Will bump!

2 months ago
Posted a reply to WP Sweep deletes custom fonts added with Brainstorm Force’s Custom Fonts plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry that means this plugin is not compatible with that plugin. I will add it…

3 months ago
Posted a reply to What’s the difference between votes and voters?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry I have no idea what you mean. Can you create a fresh poll and…

3 months ago
Posted a reply to Poll Results, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Nope.

3 months ago
Posted a reply to Not Log on Multisite, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
My guess is the database table is not created. Did you activate it per site?

3 months ago
Posted a reply to Poll questions don’t display, only results, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Because you have voted and it is behind the same IP.

3 months ago
Posted a reply to Poll questions don’t display, only results, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It displays fine for me.

3 months ago
Posted a reply to Disable poll_get_hostname() for Poll Logging Method Do Not Log, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I don't see how will it affect performance. I have seen some heavy sites using…

3 months ago
Posted a reply to The counter is not displayed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I am not sure how your theme works, but it looks correct. If you are…

3 months ago
Posted a reply to The counter is not displayed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You need to insert the PHP code to your theme or shortcode https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-postviews/

3 months ago
Committed [2343996] to Plugins Trac:
Releasing plugin 1.68.5

3 months ago