Lester Chan’s WordPress Plugins

New Support Forums
Hi guys,

The support forums for my plugins is at http://forums.lesterchan.net. I have just “reformatted” it to Simple Machines. If you run into any problems with my plugin, kindly post it in the forums.

If I do not answer your question within 3 days, feel free to bump it as I may miss it.

Updates
My exams are over, hopefully I can start work on the WP-Downloads and update some of my plugins. My main focus here is to get version 3 of my site out and then all the plugins will roll out accordingly because the new site will need them. Be patient with me =)

WP-Polls 2.13
It is more or less ready to be released, I will release it sometime this week, latest by next week. It features bug fixes, poll bar styling option in Polls -> Poll Options (allowing you to use CSS or Image) and most importantly I have internationalize (no idea whether is it the right word to use) it, so now you can translate wp-polls into your own language just by modifying the .po file.

Localization
I have localize WP-Stats and WP-UserOnline in addition to WP-Polls. If any one of you willing are to test it for me, the downloads links are as follows:
» WP-Stats 2.06 Localized Version
» WP-UserOnline 2.06 Localized Version

If you do test it, please feedback to me if there are any text not translated properly or can be improved. Thanks alot.

Example of WP-UserOnline: You need to create a new .po based on the .pot then after translating you need to save as for example: wp-useronline-de_DE.po where de_DE is your language. The poedit (I assume you are using poedit) will generate a file called wp-useronline-de_DE.mo.

Note: make sure that both files are in wp-content/plugins/useronline

AJAX
WP-Polls and WP-UserOnline now processes AJAX in their own file like polls.php and useronline.php instead of index.php. I think in this way it will be faster and it will have lesser conflicts with other plugins. I have also removed the Javascript variable site_url in them because it is not used.

» Now you can change WP-Polls’s Poll Bar style in WP-Admin itself, one of the features that I longing to implement is finally implemented. See that in action.

» WP-Polls is now 100% localize thanks to Ravan and Philippe Corbes.

» If you do not like WP-Polls and wish to remove it totally, you wish came true. The built-in uninstaller by Philippe Corbes does the trick.

» The usage instructions is now in the plugin itself under Polls -> Polls Usage

On other plugins, I will work on WP-Downloads and WP-Ban in December, expect it to be out for testing by January 2007.

I wonder if anybody is interested in this plugin which I think I may name it WP-Downloads. I ported it over from my WP 1.5.2 Site (http://www.lesterchan.net/blogs/) and modify it a little to be WP 2.0 friendly. What it does is basically add a little Download Section in your WordPress site. It will just keep track of how many times a file is downloaded. It will be a single page Download Section with categories to separate the files. I am still considering whether or not to add a upload feature to it as PHP only supports maximum 2MB of upload. Right now you have to upload the file to a directory set in the option page. I have not coded the user side yet, but the admin side is more or less done.

Give me your comments on this.

A similar demo is on http://www.lesterchan.net/others/downloads.php.
WP-Downloads Admin Screen

Hi guys, I am back with a new plugin, called WP-Ban. This plugin allows you to ban users from your site by IP or Host Name.

For example:
Iif you want to ban users from your localhost ip range, you can always to this: 192.168.1.* under the ip column.
If you want to ban a certain country to visit your blog, for example Singapore, under the host name column, just type *.sg

WP-Ban Options Screen

UPDATE
» Download WP-Ban 1.10

I have updated 8 of my 11 plugins. The most important bug I fixed is the AJAX URL bug. The rest are some minor enhancements and bug fixes. wp-stats.php, wp-polls.php and wp-useronline.php are now integrated into WordPress Pages. You do not need to manually integrate it. You will still need to manually integrate wp-email.php, I am still finding a way around it.

I have started school after 2 years of National Service and I am very busy with my school work (university school work is hell). I will try my very best to give support to my plugins alongside with bug fixes.

Thanks for all the support =)

WP-EMail 2.07
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download
» Support Forum

WP-PageNavi 2.03
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download
» Support Forum

WP-Polls 2.12
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download
» Support Forum

WP-PostRatings 1.04
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download
» Support Forum

WP-PostViews 1.02
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download
» Support Forum

WP-Print 2.06
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download
» Support Forum

WP-Stats 2.05
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download
» Support Forum

WP-Useronline 2.05
» Readme/Changelog
» Demo
» Download
» Support Forum

PS: For some reason I can’t edit the Wiki over at http://dev.wp-plugins.org, thus I have uploaded the readme.html to my site.

WP-Stats has joined in the updates along with WP-Polls and WP-UserOnline. Now you do not need to integrate wp-stats anymore, the same goes with wp-polls and wp-useronline. Just create a page and type in [ page_stats ] (without any spaces) in the post’s content area, and there you go.

The down side of it is that it requires the latest version of wp-email, wp-polls, wp-views and wp-postratings.

WP-Polls 2.12 Beta
» No more the use of IMG tag to generate the poll’s result. It is now based on DIV tag. The default class to it is ‘pollbar-image’ in which it will use the image as the background in the DIV. If you like something simpler, you can always replace it with ‘pollbar-css’. This will use CSS to generate the color of the poll result bar which can be configured in ‘polls-css.css’.

» I have gotten rid of wp-polls.php and the archive link below the Poll. Now if you want to to show the Polls Archive, just create a page and type in [ page_polls ] (without any spaces) in the post’s content area.

» Now you can have the title of the Poll’s Widget.

» Ability to logged by Username instead of by cookie/ip.

» Fixed an AJAX problem in which if the site’s URL doesn’t match WP Option’s Site URL, WP-Polls will not work.

WP-UserOnline 2.05 Beta
» I have gotten rid of wp-useronline.php. Now to show the UserOnline page, just create a page and type in [ page_useronline ] (without any spaces) in the post’s content area, followed by the URL to that newly created page in ‘WP-Admin -> Options -> Useronline’.

» Changed in WP-UserOnline structure: Members Mean Registered Users and Guests Mean Comment Authors or Visitors

» get_users_browsing_site(false) and get_users_browsing_page(false) will now return an array containing Total Users, Total Members, Total Guests and Total Bots Online

» Now you can have the title of the UserOnline’s Widget.

» Fixed an AJAX problem in which if the site’s URL doesn’t match WP Option’s Site URL, WP-UserOnline will not work.

I have updated 4 of my plugins.
WP-EMail 2.06
» FIXED: Modified Get Most Emailed Post Function
(Download | Documentation)

WP-PostRatings 1.03
» NEW: Total Rating Votes Stats And Total Rating Users Stats Function Added
» FIXED: Ratings Not Working On Physical Pages That Is Integrated Into WordPress
» FIXED: Modified Get Most/Highest Rated Post Function
» FIXED: Search Bots Unable To Index Site
(Download | Documentation)

WP-Stats 2.04
» NEW: Added Highest Rated Post If WP-PostRatings? Is Installed
» NEW: Remove My Other Plugins Stats Functions Inside stats.php
» NEW: WP-Stats Files Are Now In wp-content/plugins/stats/ Folder
» NEW: You Can Now Place Selected Stats On The Sidebar As A Widget
» NEW: Code That WP-Stats Generated Is XHTML 1.0 Transitional
(Download | Documentation)

WP-UserOnline 2.04
» NEW: Added Highest Rated Post If WP-PostRatings? Is Installed
» NEW: Remove My Other Plugins Stats Functions Inside stats.php
» NEW: WP-Stats Files Are Now In wp-content/plugins/stats/ Folder
» NEW: You Can Now Place Selected Stats On The Sidebar As A Widget
» NEW: Code That WP-Stats Generated Is XHTML 1.0 Transitional
(Download | Documentation)

WP-PostViews 1.01
» NEW: Added Get Total Views Function
» FIXED: Modified Get Most Viewed Post Function
(Download | Documentation)

If you look on the right, those items on the sidebar all called widgets. I find them kinda cool and hence I have created widgets for WP-Polls, WP-UserOnline and WP-Stats.

New version of WP-UserOnline and WP-Stats will be coming out on 1st July 2006. Any plugins used on this site are all the latest builds.