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
Core Contributor
Plugin Developer
Plugin Developer
Translation Editor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Organizer

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Posted a reply to Remove Plugin Completely, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hmm thank you! It looks like WP doesn't clean it up automatically. Will fix that…

2 hours ago
Posted a reply to Remove Plugin Completely, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It only deletes the options it creates. It doesn't touch anything else. Just deactivate the…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to Review snippets  Invalid object type for field “itemReviewed”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you site has nothing to do with movie ratings and you use movie just…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Latest update seems to have changed bots[dot]php, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Done!

3 days ago
Committed [2310561] to Plugins Trac:
Releasing plugin 2.87.5

3 days ago
Committed [2310560] to Plugins Trac:
Deploying wp-useronline from GitHub

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Sweep Permission Issue, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
$permission = defined( 'WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE' ) && WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE ? 'update_plugins' : 'manage_options'; Having said that DISALLOW_FILE_MODS…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Sweep Permission Issue, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That is a good idea, is it a foolproof way? I am not sure what…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Latest update seems to have changed bots[dot]php, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Are you able to dismiss the alert? It is a valid update (so no security…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Latest update seems to have changed bots[dot]php, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes I think I did. My automated script. I miss that will exclude wp-useronline next…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to Sweep Permission Issue, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Changed and updated =)

6 days ago
Committed [2308821] to Plugins Trac:
Releasing plugin 1.1.3

6 days ago
Committed [2308819] to Plugins Trac:
Deploying wp-sweep from GitHub

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Sweep link missing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Might be this https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sweep-permission-issue/

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Sweep Permission Issue, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Wow that is a TIL for me. Thanks for the heads up. I am going…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Can you make this multisite safe?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sweep-permission-issue/ looks like I have to change

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Sweep link missing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sure no worries, three of my single sites work without issues. Let's see if there…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Sweep link missing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Weird, I am on a single site as well and it appears for me. Take…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Avoid fake ratings, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry, I have no intention and time for that anytime soon. So you probably have…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Sweep link missing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I have changed the permission to manage_plugins from the feedback of https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-you-make-this-multisite-safe/ to make it…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Error with GOOGLE SEARCH CONSOLE, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It is Google not supporting it anymore for the “Post” type of ratings. There is…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Schema Link – update to https://, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Google Rich Text Snippet will not be solved because it is Google not supporting it…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Repairing DB deletes my, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I have not come across it before. REPAIR runs the REPAIR query in MySQL, https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/repair-table.html.…

6 days ago
Committed [2308387] to Plugins Trac:
Retagging plugin 2.87.4

6 days ago
Committed [2308386] to Plugins Trac:
Removing tag 2.87.4

6 days ago
Committed [2308385] to Plugins Trac:
Deploying wp-useronline from GitHub

6 days ago
Committed [2308384] to Plugins Trac:
Releasing plugin 1.1.2

6 days ago
Committed [2308383] to Plugins Trac:
Retagging plugin 1.66

6 days ago
Committed [2308381] to Plugins Trac:
Removing tag 1.66

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Change my rating, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Possible, you probably have to find it yourself =) I don't do WordPress freelance anymore…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Any way to delete ratings based on “ID” instead of “Post ID”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry, that is not possible. Deleting the rating id base on IP will be useless…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Compatibility with WordPress 5.4.x, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It is safe to use with WP 5.4. I just could not find the time…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Change my rating, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sadly, no. The plugin is not designed for that use case.

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Rating displays big in responsive, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, It looks different on different screen sizes, that means your theme is overwriting the…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Doesn’t work on WordPress 5.3.4, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yeap, because I have no time to bump the version yet.

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Can this be used within woocommerce, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I don't use WooCommerce, so I can't answer that.

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Doesn’t work on WordPress 5.3.4, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It works on my test site https://lesterchan.net/wordpress/2011/04/28/wp-showhide-1-00/ on WP 5.4 If it doesn't work that…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Can you make this multisite safe?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Done, will release it in the next update https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-sweep/commit/98b55d9618955a544fe6cb7b876f56a4625e9a2a

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Can you make this multisite safe?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hmm, I don't use MS myself, so I am not sure what is a good…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to WordPress 5.4 compatibility, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes it should work with 5.4. I have no time to bump the version number…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Multiple ratings in each post, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Nope that is not possible as the plugin was not designed for that.

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Constantly backing up database, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Check if your options are set correctly and you did not choose the minute dropdown.…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Revisions, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Nope, it will only delete the post_type revisions. So once you publish the latest revision,…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Database Sweep Problem, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I recommend for 5 minutes.

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Database Sweep Problem, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It might be your PHP timeout which is 30s by default.

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Suddenly saying can’t write to backup folder, but permissions are good, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Unlikely, I have it on five of my sites (though on the same machine), all…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Suddenly saying can’t write to backup folder, but permissions are good, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
My guess your host did some permission or updates to your machine? This plugin hasn't…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Anonymize IP, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
IP is hashed, the cookie doesn't have user identifier information. It just logs what option…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Schema Link – update to https://, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I might remove the schema altogether because it doesn't work with Google anymore.

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Loading… forever, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
My guess is that your plugin or theme loads a mobile version of your site…

1 month ago