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DO NOT POST support questions in the comments, please use http://forums.lesterchan.net instead.

BUT before you do that, please make sure you have read the plugins online readme and NOTE the tabs at the top. That is the exact same readme.html that is included in the zip file of each plugin.

I have received several feedback that the Automatic Plugin Upgrade feature in WordPress is causing problem with my plugins.

I want to say that ALL my plugins currently will not work with the Automatic Plugin Upgrade feature because there is a problem with the path. It is a little difficult for me to explain it here.

The new version of my plugins that I am going to release on 1st June 2008 will address this issue. In another words, if are using 1.30 or 2.30 beta of my plugins, the problem has been solved.

So in the mean time, DO NOT use the Automatic Plugin Upgrade feature for my plugin.

Source: WordPress.org Forums: wp-dbmanager is showing as an upgrade for wp-postViews Widget

Below is a list of my plugins in development that WILL work with WordPress 2.5. The reason why I consolidated it here is because the current version of the listed plugins does not work properly with WordPress 2.5.

  WP-DownloadManager 1.30 Beta 2 (38.2 KiB, 5,711 hits)

  WP-Email 2.30 Beta 2 (41.9 KiB, 3,807 hits)

  WP-Polls 2.30 Beta 2 (61 KiB, 6,782 hits)

  WP-PostRatings 1.30 Beta 2 (99.8 KiB, 4,466 hits)

  WP-Print 2.30 Beta 2 (18.8 KiB, 2,940 hits)

  WP-ServerInfo 1.30 Beta 2 (10.3 KiB, 785 hits)

  WP-Sticky 1.30 Beta 2 (11.2 KiB, 2,592 hits)

  WP-UserOnline 2.30 Beta 2 (22.8 KiB, 2,120 hits)

If the plugin is not listed here, it means that the current version of that respective plugin will work fine in WordPress 2.5. You can get the current version of all my plugins in my portfolio page.

NOTE: YOU NEED TO READ THE readme.html AND NOTE THE INSTALLATION TAB IF YOU ARE INSTALLING A NEW COPY OF THE PLUGIN OR THE UPGRADE TAB IF YOU ARE UPGRADING THE PLUGIN.

I want to emphasis this because the plugins underwent a change of installation path.

PLEASE POST ALL SUPPORT QUESTIONS IN THE SUPPORT FORUMS - http://forums.lesterchan.net

For some reasons, the core permalink structure of WordPress 2.5 has been changed just before it is being released (the problem is not there with WordPress 2.5 RC1).

If you get a 404 on WP-Email and WP-Print posts/pages, you need to get the latest development version of the respective plugins. Refer to the post above this.

I also wished I have more time to spend updating my plugins, but as my school is nearing the semester end, all my projects deadline are also coming and so are the end of semester exams. I can’t fork out any valuable time to update all my plugins for WP 2.5 and hence, 1st June 2008 should be the day I will roll out the updates to my plugins as my last paper is on 6th May 2008.

But in the mean time, I will try my best to address all issues related with my plugins and WordPress 2.5.

The current version of all my plugins will work on WordPress 2.5 PROVIDED you have upgraded your WordPress blog from WP 2.x to WP 2.5.

If you are using a fresh copy of WordPress 2.5 together with my plugins, it WILL NOT work as WordPress 2.5 changes the Activation Global Scope Of The Plugins. In simpler terms, it means that upon activation of my plugins in WP-Admin, it will not create the tables needed by the respective plugins.

To solve this problem temporary, do the following in polls.php (I am using WP-Polls as an example):

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$wpdb->pollsq = $table_prefix.'pollsq';
$wpdb->pollsa = $table_prefix.'pollsa';
$wpdb->pollsip = $table_prefix.'pollsip';

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global $wpdb;
$wpdb->pollsq = $wpdb->prefix.'pollsq';
$wpdb->pollsa = $wpdb->prefix.'pollsa';
$wpdb->pollsip = $wpdb->prefix.'pollsip';

Note the addition of the “global $wpdb;” and the replacement of “$table_prefix” with “$wpdb->prefix“.

I have updated WP-Polls, WP-ServerInfo, WP-Sticky and WP-UserOnline to work with WordPress 2.5. You can get them here at my downloads page (do note that they are still in beta). Those plugins that end with a “Beta 2″ means it will work for WordPress 2.5.

Some of the updates are:

• Making sure that the styling, alignment and color of the plugin matches WordPress 2.5
• Fixes the “Activation Global Scope” issue
• Updated WP-Polls TinyMCE plugin to work with TinyMCE 3.0
• Added a summary of WP-ServerInfo as a Dashboard Widget
• Added a summary of WP-UserOnline in the Right Now Dashboard Widget

If you like my WordPress plugins, perhaps you can become a fan on my Lester Chan’s WordPress Plugins Page in Facebook.

Thanks =D

Matt has reported that General Motors has chosen Wordpress for its GMnext’s Blog and upon checking out the blog, I realized that it is using 3 of my plugins namely, WP-Print, WP-Email and WP-PostRatings. Cool!

As I have received many request to optimized the Javascript for WP-Polls (I will also do it for other plugins but I will beta test it with WP-Polls first), I have used Dean Edwards Packer to pack my Javascript for WP-Polls and then I have moved the Dynamic Javascript variables out of the Javascript file and into the PHP page and now I can renamed it back to .js extension instead of .php.

These 2 things that I have done should help reduce the load on the server.

If are interested to test it out, you can download WP-Polls 2.30 Beta 1.

I have changed all my plugins download links listed on My Programming Portfolio Page to point to the Official WordPress Plugins Repository instead of to my own site as many users have problem downloading it from my site because DreamHost is quite sucky recently. I have been able to download it at times and most of the times the download just got cut off. So I figured out it would be better to point it directly to plugins repository instead.

Sorry if it took so long, I have been very busy with my school.

Go: My Programming Portfolio Page

David Potter has reviewed several WordPress themes and plugins and you can find those reviews here.

He as reviewed 4 of my plugins namely WP-Email, WP-Print, WP-PostViews and WP-DownloadManager.

His reviews are all very detailed, go check them out.