• Added Auto Repair functionality via WP Cron, similar to the current implementation of Backing Up & Optimizing DB
• Added nonce to all forms for added security
• Replace get_bloginfo('name') with get_option('blogname') and make it goes through wp_specialchars_decode()
• Ported the readme.html to readme.txt

Finally, Props to Joakim Jardenberg, Jonas Nordström and Andreas Viklund for finding and reporting the previous security vulnerability.

Download: WP-DBManager 2.62

However, most users are affected and it is recommended that you upgrade WP-DBManager to 2.61.

WP-DBManager 2.62 will be out on Tuesday with added nonce security and auto-repair functionality.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Download: WP-DBManager 2.61

This new plugin came about when Hisham tweeted me about whether there is a “Show/Hide Press Release” WordPress plugin like what Engadget does when posting a Press Release.

I can’t seem to find it and decided to code one myself using WordPress ShortCode API. I made the plugin more generic rather than focusing on Press Releases, so you can have multiple Show/Hide content within a post.

I tested it on WordPress 3.1.1 but technically it should work with any version higher than WordPress 2.5 because ShortCode was introduced in WordPress 2.5.

WP-ShowHide Description

Allows you to embed content within your blog post via WordPress ShortCode API and toggling the visibility of the cotent via a link. By default the content is hidden and user will have to click on the “Show Content” link to toggle it. Similar to what Engadget is doing for their press releases.

Example usage: [ showhide type="pressrelease" ]Press Release goes in here.[ /showhide ] (Remove the spaces before and after the square brackets [].)

Download: WP-ShowHide 1.00
Documentation: WP-ShowHide

Demostration/Example Usage
Remove the spaces before and after the square brackets [].

Tag: [ showhide ][ /showhide ]

Tag: [ showhide type="links" more_text="Show Links (%s More Words)" less_text="Hide Links (%s More Words)" ][ /showhide ]

Tag: [ showhide type="visibility" hidden="no" more_text="Show Visibility Content (%s More Words)" less_text="Hide Visibility Content (%s More Words)" ][ /showhide ]

Download: WP-PostViews 1.60

I have checked the rest of my plugins to ensure that the code is not in anymore of my plugins. Sorry for any inconvenienced cased.

Similar to WP-Polls, I also took this chance to port the readme.html to the proper readme.txt which WordPress.org is using and now you can see all the details of WP-PostRatings right from the plugins page itself regardless if it is from your WP-Admin or WordPress.org.

All users should upgrade now

Props to Dion Hulse aka dd32 for the report!

Download: WP-PostRatings 1.61

I also took this chance to port the readme.html to the proper readme.txt which WordPress.org is using and now you can see all the details of WP-Polls right from the plugins page itself regardless if it is from your WP-Admin or WordPress.org.

All users should upgrade now

Vulnerability discovered by + Props to:

Dweeks, Leon Juranic and Chad Lavoie of the Swiftwill Security Team (www.swiftwill.com)

Download: WP-Polls 2.61

There are 2 changes only:

1. The major change was adding support for memcached stats if your server has it and your PHP is compiled with it
2. The other was to tidy up and use readme.txt instead of readme.html so that user can see all the information (including screenshots) within the plugin page itself.

Moving forward, whenever I have time to spare and when I am updating my plugins, I will port the respective plugin’s readme.html to readme.txt to keep it consistent.

Rest assured that my plugins are NOT dead, just not as active as before due to work commitments.

I am always using the latest stable version of WordPress for my website, lesterchan.net, and hence I will make sure that the plugins are compatible with the latest version of WordPress.

I have also point the latest working stable version to trunk because I will not be adding any new features but bug fixes along the way and hence I am the trunk will be stable.

WP-Polls Readme
Download WP-Polls

WP-DBManager Readme
Download WP-DBManager

Now my plugins uses jQuery for AJAX instead of TW-Sack. I have also updated the widget code to make use of the new WordPress 2.8 new Widget class and that supports multi-instances widgets. The widget code has now been merge with the main plugin file so the standalone widget plugin file is no longer in use. Please delete the whole plugin folder and upload it again to avoid any error.

As WordPress 2.8 supports loading of JavaScript in the footer, all my plugins’ JavaScripts will be loaded in the footer. Be sure you have in your theme footer.php.

Be sure to read the readme.html and checkout the changelog for more information and most importantly NOTE THE TABS AT THE TOP

WP-Ban 1.50
» Readme/Changelog
» Download Mirror #1
» Support Forum

WP-CommentNavi 1.10
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Support Forum

WP-DBManager 2.50
» Readme/Changelog
» Download Mirror #1
» Support Forum

WP-DownloadManager 1.50
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Support Forum

WP-EMail 2.50
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Support Forum

WP-PageNavi 2.50
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Support Forum

WP-PluginsUsed 1.50
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Support Forum

WP-Polls 2.50
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Support Forum

WP-PostRatings 1.50
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Support Forum

WP-PostViews 1.50
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Support Forum

WP-Print 2.50
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Support Forum

WP-RelativeDate 1.50
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Support Forum

WP-ServerInfo 1.50
» Readme/Changelog
» Download Mirror #1
» Support Forum

WP-Stats 2.50
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Support Forum

WP-Sticky 1.50
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Support Forum

WP-Useronline 2.50
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Support Forum

If you like or love my plugins a lot, do consider making a donation to me. My Paypal email address is lesterchan AT gmail DOT com. Thank you =D

Below is a sample code taken from my WP-Polls that displays Polls Widget. It is tested and it works perfectly. Hope it is useful for plugin authors.

 __('Put a poll that you have added in WP-Polls on your sidebar', 'wp-polls'));
		$this->WP_Widget('polls', __('Polls'), $widget_ops);
	}

	// Display Widget
	function widget($args, $instance) {
		extract($args);
		$title = esc_attr($instance['title']);
		$poll_id = intval($instance['poll_id']);
		$display_pollarchive = intval($instance['display_pollarchive']);
		echo $before_widget.$before_title.$title.$after_title;
		get_poll($poll_id);
		if($display_pollarchive) {
			display_polls_archive_link();
		}
		echo $after_widget;
	}

	// When Widget Control Form Is Posted
	function update($new_instance, $old_instance) {
		if (!isset($new_instance['submit'])) {
			return false;
		}
		$instance = $old_instance;
		$instance['title'] = strip_tags($new_instance['title']);
		$instance['poll_id'] = intval($new_instance['poll_id']);
		$instance['display_pollarchive'] = intval($new_instance['display_pollarchive']);
		return $instance;
	}

	// DIsplay Widget Control Form
	function form($instance) {
		global $wpdb;
		$instance = wp_parse_args((array) $instance, array('title' => __('Polls', 'wp-polls'), 'poll_id' => 0, 'display_pollarchive' => 1));
		$title = esc_attr($instance['title']);
		$poll_id = intval($instance['poll_id']);
		$display_pollarchive = intval($instance['display_pollarchive']);
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• WP-Polls and WP-PostRatings uses JavaScript on the frontend as well as the backend
• WP-Email and WP-UserOnline uses JavaScript on the frontend only
• WP-ServerInfo uses JavaScript on the backend only

Unfortunately the changes require at least WordPress 2.8 onwards to make use of the JavaScript enhancements in WordPress 2.8. I have updated this site to WordPress 2.8 Bleeding Edge aka WordPress 2.8 Nightly in order to test the JavaScript changes on a live site.

If you view the HTML source of this page, you will notice that only the CSS files get loaded in the header and the JavaScript gets loaded in the footer.

If you are running WordPress 2.8 bleeding edge, perhaps you can help me test out the plugins. Thanks in advanced

• Minified JavaScript instead of packing them
• Replaced TW-Sack with jQuery
• Move JavaScript to the footer
• Use wp_localize_script() for JavaScript text translation
• javascript-js.js will now contain the minified code for normal usage
• javascript-js.dev.js will now contain the unminified code for development purposes

I have already done it for WP-PostRatings and it is now running live on this site. Next, I will be doing WP-UserOnline, followed by WP-Email and lastly WP-Polls as it is more complex.

Source: W-Shadow.com’s Blog: Top 10 WordPress Plugin Developers

I am introducing a new plugin called WP-CommentNavi which basically paginate your comments similar to how WP-PageNavi paginate your posts. I am also retiring WP-Sticky as WordPress 2.7 has a sticky post feature built in. WP-Sticky 2.31 WILL NOT work on WordPress 2.7 due to a conflict function “is_sticky”. If you renamed that function to “is_sticky2″ or something else, it should work, but as usual I did not test it.

*UPDATE* Due to the large number of requests, I decided not to retire WP-Sticky and I have updated it to 1.40 and it is now compatible with WordPress 2.7.

Be sure to read the readme.html and checkout the changelog for more information and most importantly NOTE THE TABS AT THE TOP

WP-Ban 1.40
» Readme/Changelog
» Download Mirror #1
» Download Mirror #2
» Support Forum

WP-CommentNavi 1.00
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Download Mirror #2
» Support Forum

WP-DBManager 2.40
» Readme/Changelog
» Download Mirror #1
» Download Mirror #2
» Support Forum

WP-DownloadManager 1.40
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Download Mirror #2
» Support Forum

WP-EMail 2.40
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Download Mirror #2
» Support Forum

WP-PageNavi 2.40
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Download Mirror #2
» Support Forum

WP-PluginsUsed 1.40
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Download Mirror #2
» Support Forum

WP-Polls 2.40
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Download Mirror #2
» Support Forum

WP-PostRatings 1.40
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Download Mirror #2
» Support Forum

WP-PostViews 1.40
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Download Mirror #2
» Support Forum

WP-Print 2.40
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Download Mirror #2
» Support Forum

WP-RelativeDate 1.40
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Download Mirror #2
» Support Forum

WP-ServerInfo 1.40
» Readme/Changelog
» Download Mirror #1
» Download Mirror #2
» Support Forum

WP-Stats 2.40
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Download Mirror #2
» Support Forum

WP-Sticky 1.40
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Download Mirror #2
» Support Forum

WP-Useronline 2.40
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download Mirror #1
» Download Mirror #2
» Support Forum

If you like or love my plugins a lot, do consider making a donation to me. My Paypal email address is lesterchan AT gmail DOT com. Thank you =D

Here are some of the features according to the blog post:

Next you’ll begin to notice the new features subtly sprinkled through the new interface: the new dashboard that you can arrange with drag and drop to put the things most important to you on top, QuickPress, comment threading, paging, and the ability to reply to comments from your dashboard, the ability to install any plugin directly from WordPress.org with a single click, and sticky posts.

Digging in further you might notice that every screen is customizable. Let’s say you never care about author on your post listings — just click “Screen Options” and uncheck it and it’s instantly gone from the page. The same for any module on the dashboard or write screen. If your screen is narrow and the menu is taking up too much horizontal room, click the arrow to minimize it to be icon-only, and then go to the write page and drag and drop everything from the right column into the main one, so your posting area is full-screen. (For example I like hiding everything except categories, tags, and publish. I put categories and tags on the right, and publish under the post box.)

WordPress 2.7 also introduce the Automatic Core upgrade which unfortunately do not work for me. I am still very skeptical after automating web script upgrades. I prefer to do it the manual way so that I can control what I want.

I will release the updates to my plugins shortly.

Download: WordPress 2.7

Here is a demo of the plugin in action.

You can download it from here:

Do remember to read the readme.html

I have already applied for this plugin on the WordPress repository. Still waiting for a reply.

*UPDATE* Committed the plugin, SVN is at http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-commentnavi/

My efforts had paid off when my plugins undergo major cosmetic changes back in WordPress 2.5 to accommodate the new WordPress 2.5 design. It is because for WordPress 2.7, I need not do anything and the design just fits right in. I just need to add in the icon for the admin menu for WP-DBManager, WP-DownloadManager, WP-Email, WP-Polls and WP-PostRatings.

Here are the fixes to get WP-Email 2.31 and WP-Print 2.31 to work with WordPress 2.7. I will not update WP-Email 2.31 and WP-Print 2.31 with this fix, instead I will just leave the fix to be downloadeded on this site. Do note that the fix will make WP-Email and WP-Print work for WordPress 2.7 ONLY.

Here is the fix for WP-Email 2.31:

In wp-email.php:

Find (Line 106, Line 120, Line 134 & Line 147):

$rewrite_rules = array_slice($rewrite_rules, 4, 1);

Replace:

$rewrite_rules = array_slice($rewrite_rules, 5, 1);

Find (Line 758):

add_action('template_redirect', 'wp_email');

Replace:

add_action('template_redirect', 'wp_email', 5);

Alternatively you can download the fixed wp-email.php:

Here is the fix for WP-Print 2.31:

In wp-print.php:

Find (Line 79 & Line 95):

$rewrite_rules = array_slice($rewrite_rules, 4, 1);

Replace:

$rewrite_rules = array_slice($rewrite_rules, 5, 1);

Find (Line 395):

add_action('template_redirect', 'wp_print');

Replace:

add_action('template_redirect', 'wp_print', 5);

Alternatively you can download the fixed wp-print.php:

After uploading the fix, you need to regenerate permalink. Go to (WP-Admin -> Settings -> Permalinks -> Save Changes)

I have already committed these changes to WP-Email 2.40 and WP-Print 2.40 to the SVN.

Tentatively WP-DBManager, WP-DownloadManager, WP-Email, WP-Polls and WP-PostRatings will work for WordPress 2.7 only because of the new icon in the admin menu.

A vulnerability in the Snoopy library was announced today. WordPress uses Snoopy to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard. Although this seems to be a low risk vulnerability for WordPress users, we wanted to get an update out immediately. 2.6.3 is available for download right now. If you don’t want to download the whole release to get the security fix, you can download the following two files and copy them over your 2.6.2 installation.

Replace these 2 files:

1. wp-includes/class-snoopy.php
2. wp-includes/version.php

Download full version:

• Download WordPress 2.6.3

Feel free to add on to the list by posting it in the comments.