Lester Chan’s WordPress Plugins

In the next release of WP-Stats, version 2.20. I will have some filters built into the Stats Page, Stats Options Page (in WP-Admin), Stats Widget and Stats Widget Options (in WP-Admin) so that other plugins can use the filters to display the stats on WP-Stats Page.

I will remove all my plugins stats from the core of WP-Stats so that I can use the filters to put in the stats into WP-Stats. I will have some examples when I finalized everything.

I have also removed all my plugins stats from WP-Stats Widget because as from now on, my individual plugin will get its own Widget. Like WP-EMail Widget, WP-PostRatings Widget etc.

I just uninstalled Counterize II and FireStats from this site and I will track the hits via DreamHost Stats panel.

The reason being FireStats is taking too much database space. My whole database (without gzip) is about 35MB and now it is backed to 3.2MB, notice the great difference?

So I went to try out Counterize II hoping that it will be smaller, as it says on the website it has a new database structure which saves on the space, but after installing it, my sql queries went from 41 queries per page to 60+ queries per page.

I ended up not using both.

My first plugin to have an uninstaller is WP-Polls and it is contributed by Philippe Corbes. Recently there is a thread in WordPress Forums asking plugin authors to provide uninstaller for their plugins. And that motivated me to add uninstaller to all my plugins, and they will be included in the next release.

I urge all plugin authors to do the same thing to prevent the options table from being overloaded with plugins’ options, and the wost part being that the plugin has already been deactivated and deleted.

In short, Widgets and Uninstaller will be included in WP-PostRatings and WP-PostViews in version 1.20 onwards

WP-PostRatings widget supports “Most Rated” and “Highest Rated” posts and/or pages. WP-PostViews widget supports “Most Viewed” post and/or pages.

This should make quite a lot of users happy because they always wanted this feature instead of manually inputting php codes into the widget.

I have also added in an option page for WP-PostViews under “WP-Admin -> Options -> Post Views” in version 1.20. So now user can choose to let WP-PostViews count views from everyone, guest only or registered users only from the options page rather than manually editing the php code.

The release date hopefully will be around October 2007.

I have updated the readme and as promised, here is WP-DownloadManger 1.00. The download file below is being embedded into this post via the plugin =)

  WP-DownloadManager 1.31 Beta 1 (unknown, 7,960 hits)

» WP-DownloadManager Screenshots

» WP-DownloadManager Support Forum

The readme.html is inside the zip and here is the live demo page. For more information, refer to the post below this.

I have been spending the past few days coding WP-DownloadManager, and I am proud to say that I can release the beta very soon. I just left the readme.html to do.

For those who cannot wait for the readme, here is the direct link to the file via WordPress Plugins SVN.

As it is now, any file added to WP-DownloadManager can be download by anyone, I may add in permission to each file if I get enough responses.

Remember to update your permalinks by going to “WP-Admin -> Options -> Permalink” and click “Update Permalink Structure” because the file direct download link will be “http://yoursite.com/download/1/” where 1 is your file ID.

I think a picture paints a thousand words:

» WP-DownloadManager Screenshots

» WP-DownloadManager Support Forum

WordPress 2.2.1 has been released and as usual I have updated this site to WordPress 2.2.1.

Some bugfixes:

» Atom feed validation fixes
» XML-RPC fixes
» Widget backward compatibility fixes
» Widget layout fixes for IE7
» Page and Text Widget improvements
» Remote shell injection in PHPMailer
» Remote SQL injection in XML-RPC
» Unescaped attribute in default theme

Unfortunately, 2.2.1 is not just a bug fix release. Some security issues came to light during 2.2.1 development, making 2.2.1 a required upgrade. 2.2.1 addresses the following vulnerabilities:

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I have fixed 2 minor bugs for WP-EMail 2.11 and WP-Print 2.11. I did not bump the version number because a lot of hassle is needed. Instead I just update the zip file.

The 2 bugs are:

1. Unable to display feed properly if you are using [ email_link ] or [ print_link ] to embed the email/print link within the post.
2. 404 error if you are using a custom permalink structure without a / at the end.

WP-EMail 2.11
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Download Mirror #2
» Support Forum

WP-Print 2.11
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Download Mirror #2
» Support Forum

I have finally took some time off to update my WordPress plugins screenshot page. There used to be screenshots for only WP-Ban and WP-Polls. But now, all my plugins screenshots are all there, all 14 of them. Some plugins like WP-Ban, WP-DBManager and WP-ServerInfo can’t be shown in this demo site as it is for administrators only, but now with the screenshots, you can get a glimpse of it before you download the plugin.

» My WordPress Plugins Screenshots

There is a bug in WP-PostRatings 1.11 together with WordPress 2.1.x which will not remember any ratings if you have rated the post. The bug seems to go away if you are using WordPress 2.2. I presumed there is some changes to the add_post_meta() and update_post_meta() in WP 2.2. I have since fixed the bug and now it works perfectly on WP 2.1.x and WP 2.2.

If you guys have previously downloaded WP-PostRatings 1.11, kindly re-download it again. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

WP-PostRatings 1.11
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Download Mirror #2
» Support Forum