Lester Chan’s WordPress Plugins

WordPress 2.3 Beta 1 will be release later. Note that IT WILL NOT WORK with the current version of ALL my plugins as the whole /wp-admin/ folder had underwent some restructuring.

There WILL NOT be any more categories, link2cat, or post2cat tables. It will be replaced by terms, term_taxonomy and term_relationships. It means that my plugins MAY break as some of the functions uses direct query to those depreciated tables.

I will update the current development version of ALL my plugins to be compatible with WordPress 2.3 and above. If you are using the development version of my plugins for WordPress 2.2 after I updated all of them, it WILL BREAK.

I will post another entry once I have completed updating all of them to be compatible to WordPress 2.3.

This is my latest plugin called WP-PluginsUsed. What it does is it allows you to display your WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

Demo: Plugins Used

I have added AJAX feature to WP-Email 2.20 because it has been requested quite a number of times. Now when you recommend your friend a post/page, it will be sent using AJAX.

I have updated this site from WP-Email 2.11 to WP-Email 2.20 Beta 1 to give you a live demo of the AJAX. Just click on any “Email This Post” link.

Changelog for WP-Email 2.20 Beta 1:

» NEW: AJAX Used To Email The Post/Page
» NEW: Most Emailed Widget Added
» NEW: Ability To Uninstall WP-EMail
» NEW: Uses WP-Stats Filter To Add Stats Into WP-Stats Page
» FIXED: Displaying Friend’s E-Mail Field Is Compulsory To Prevent Error
» FIXED: Method Of Storing SMTP Information Updated
» FIXED: If There Is No Trailing Slash In Your Permalink, WP-Email Will Add It For You

If you are interested in testing it for me:

Mashable had featured 3 of my plugins namely WP-Polls, WP-PostRatings and WP-UserOnline in one of the post named 30+ AJAX-Powered WordPress Plugins.

Thank you Mashable!

Mark from Weblog Tools Collection also put in very nice words about me in his post.

Thank you Mark!

I have added a feature to WP-DownloadManager that will allow you to add a remote file to the downloads. This remote file will looks as if it resides on your own server and the process is totally transparent to the user. The only downside is at times it is unable to get the file size and hence it will display as unknown.

I have added WP-PostRatings 1.20 Beta 1 as an example of remote file. Remember that the file does not reside in this sever but it is pointing to a remote file url which is http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-postratings.zip

Many of you guys requested the up/down or some call it thumbs up/thumbs down feature in WP-PostRatings. I am proud to say that along side with the default rating styles, you can have the up/down ratings easily and on top of that you can have custom image for each individual rating. So what that means is that, if you want to have 5 different images for 5 different type of ratings instead of the same old 5 repetitive stars, now you can.

I have also make it compatible with WP-Cache, thanks to the code provided by Nir Aides. This time there is a huge modification to the core code and I need beta testers for this. If anyone of you guys is interested, drop me an email @ gamerz84 AT hotmail DOT com.

Thank you.

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.

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 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.