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 Is WP-UserOnline tested with WP 5.6?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yeap it works, I am using it https://lesterchan.net/wordpress/. I am lazy to bump the version…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to WP ShowHide is a great plugin,, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the kind donations =)

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to ShowHide not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Upgrading WP and PHP will not break this plugin, so it might be incompatibility with…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to WP_Sweep (Multisite), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It has to be installed per site basic rather than network. I don't use MS…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Bump version to 5.6, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Done =)

1 month ago
Committed [2440391] to Plugins Trac:
Retagging plugin 1.1.3

1 month ago
Committed [2440390] to Plugins Trac:
Removing tag 1.1.3

1 month ago
Committed [2440389] to Plugins Trac:
Deploying wp-sweep from GitHub

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Automatic scheduling no longer works, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I just checked I am on WP 5.6 for three of my sites and the…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to After update WP 5.6 plugin User online do not work, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Most likely something on your site broke it. This plugin works with 5.6 Demo https://lesterchan.net/wordpress/useronline/

1 month ago
Posted a reply to MariaDB, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yeap it supports MariaDB, I have been using MariaDB on my live site for many…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Plugin suitable for high traffic sites?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I rather not use this on high traffic site due to its +1 update to…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to can’t send, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The plugin is now using the core WordPress wp_mail() to send the email rather than…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to ArgumentCountError thrown, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks! I have fixed it, you just have to update the zip https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-print/archive/master.zip let me…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Will offloaded media be affected?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, WP-Sweep doesn't delete files. It only touches the DB.

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Action hook, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The action is rate_post https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-postratings/blob/master/wp-postratings.php#L596

2 months ago
Posted a reply to User Refresh Time, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Depends on your concurrent user and your server specs. If it is not causing CPU…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to User Refresh Time, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hmm, the user will not stay on your page for 60 minutes to see it…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Multisite compatible, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I did not test it with MS. So I can't guarantee it to be compatible.…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Removing/Hiding the Archive, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
After actually digging into the plugin (been a while) Actually, I am wrong, you are…

3 months ago
Posted a reply to highest post rating (custom field or category nam), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry not possible.

3 months ago
Posted a reply to Removing/Hiding the Archive, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The plugin doesn't touch your page title (there is no reason to). My guess it…

3 months ago
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…

3 months 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…

3 months 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…

3 months 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.

3 months 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…

3 months 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%…

3 months 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

3 months 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…

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

4 months 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.

4 months 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…

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

4 months 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…

4 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.

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

4 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…

4 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…

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

5 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…

5 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/

5 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.

5 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

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

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

5 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.

5 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.

5 months ago