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25th November 2009

Away From 7th December 2009 To 27th December 2009

Posted by Lester Chan at 15:54 in Site

I will be away from the 7th December 2009 to 27th December 2009 to Taiwan and Hong Kong for holidays.

During this period, http://forums.lesterchan.net will be in a read-only mode, meaning you can only search and read topics/replies. Registration of new account, replying to an existing topic and posting a new topic will be DISABLED.

Please make an effort to search or read through the respective forum for your answers. I am 90% sure that your problems had been addressed before.

I WILL NOT entertain any support questions that are sent to me via email during this period. If you urgently need support, you can try posting it in WordPress.org Support Forums.

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17th May 2009

WordPress 2.8 Beta 1

Posted by Lester Chan at 16:51 in Site, WordPress

WordPress 2.8 Beta 1 has been released. For all the new features, refer to the WordPress 2.8 in Codex. I am going to upgrade this site now.

This site is running the development versions of all my plugins, so it should work with WordPress 2.8. Please let me know if you encounter any bug.

Download: WordPress 2.8 Beta 1

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19th January 2009

JavaScript In My Plugins II

Posted by Lester Chan at 19:11 in Site, WP-EMail, WP-Polls, WP-PostRatings, WP-ServerInfo, WP-UserOnline, WordPress

I have completed the “update” process to my 5 of my plugins (WP-Polls, WP-PostRatings, WP-Email, WP-ServerInfo and WP-UserOnline) which use JavaScript.

  • 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 :)

  WP-PostRatings 1.50 Beta 1 (unknown, 9,698 hits)

  WP-Email 2.50 Beta 1 (unknown, 7,529 hits)

  WP-Polls 2.50 Beta 1 (unknown, 11,366 hits)

  WP-UserOnline 2.50 Beta 1 (unknown, 4,449 hits)

  WP-ServerInfo 1.50 Beta 1 (unknown, 2,034 hits)

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2nd January 2009

Back From Taiwan

Posted by Lester Chan at 00:31 in Site

I am back from Taiwan and I have re-opened up http://forums.lesterchan.net/

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1st January 2009

Happy New Year 2009!

Posted by Lester Chan at 02:08 in Site

Wishing all my WordPress Plugins Users a very Happy New Year 2009!

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25th December 2008

Merry Christmas 2008

Posted by Lester Chan at 22:03 in Site

Wishing all my WordPress plugins users a Merry Christmas 2008! Hope you all got the Christmas presents you wanted!

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26th November 2008

Away From 14th December 2008 To 2nd January 2009

Posted by Lester Chan at 02:36 in Site

I will be away from the 14th December 2008 to 2nd January 2009 to Taiwan for holidays.

During this period, http://forums.lesterchan.net will be in a read-only mode, meaning you can only search and read topics/replies. Registration of new account, replying to an existing topic and posting a new topic will be DISABLED.

I WILL NOT entertain any support questions that are sent to me via email during this period.

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1st November 2008

My Plugins And WordPress 2.7

Posted by Lester Chan at 22:38 in Plugins, Site, WP-EMail, WP-Print, WordPress

I tested both 1.31/2.31 version as well as 1.40/2.40 version of my plugins and they appear to work fine in WordPress 2.7 EXCEPT for WP-Email and WP-Print. It is because for some reasons the canonical redirect happens before my template redirect and hence /email/ will always be an invalid page in WordPress eyes. This issue is not present in Wordpress 2.6.

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):

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

Replace:

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

Find (Line 758):

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add_action('template_redirect', 'wp_email');

Replace:

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

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

  WP-Email 2.31 Fix For WordPress 2.7 (11.4 KiB, 1,583 hits)

Here is the fix for WP-Print 2.31:

In wp-print.php:

Find (Line 79 & Line 95):

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

Replace:

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

Find (Line 395):

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add_action('template_redirect', 'wp_print');

Replace:

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

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

  WP-Print 2.31 Fix For WordPress 2.7 (4.2 KiB, 1,796 hits)

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.

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9th September 2008

WordPress 2.6.2

Posted by Lester Chan at 09:49 in Site, WordPress

WordPress 2.6.2 has been released.

Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and the weakness of mt_rand(). With his help we worked around these problems and are now releasing WordPress 2.6.2. If you allow open registration on your blog, you should definitely upgrade. With open registration enabled, it is possible in WordPress versions 2.6.1 and earlier to craft a username such that it will allow resetting another user’s password to a randomly generated password. The randomly generated password is not disclosed to the attacker, so this problem by itself is annoying but not a security exploit. However, this attack coupled with a weakness in the random number seeding in mt_rand() could be used to predict the randomly generated password. Stefan Esser will release details of the complete attack shortly. The attack is difficult to accomplish, but its mere possibility means we recommend upgrading to 2.6.2.

Here is a list of bugs fixed:

  • Can’t control where a user redirects to when they log in
  • Bug in textpattern import
  • include mysql version in version check query string
  • RSS widget shouldn’t link if there isn’t a link
  • get_post_meta fails to unserialize when $single=false
  • typing error in wp-settings.php
  • comment_max_links causes confusion when zero
  • get_posts not working properly
  • Insert image into post always inserts full size
  • Filter news on templates cant work
  • Typo in post revisions

Here is a list of changed files:

  • wp-login.php
  • wp-settings.php
  • /wp-includes/formatting.php
  • /wp-includes/pluggable.php
  • /wp-includes/post.php
  • /wp-includes/query.php
  • /wp-includes/version.php
  • /wp-includes/widgets.php
  • /wp-admin/css/press-this-ie.css
  • /wp-admin/import/textpattern.php
  • /wp-admin/includes/image.php
  • /wp-admin/includes/template.php

Download WordPress 2.6.2

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15th August 2008

WordPress 2.6.1

Posted by Lester Chan at 13:32 in Site, WordPress

WordPress 2.6.1 has been released and it is a very minor release. Not security flaws has been found and hence WordPress 2.6.1 is not a security fix so if you are comfortable with WordPress 2.6 like me, you don’t have to upgrade.

2.6.1 offers several improvements for international users. Styling of the admin for right-to-left languages is much improved thanks to the efforts of the Farsi and Hebrew translation teams, and a mysterious gettext bug caused by certain PHP configurations is now fixed. For IIS users, 2.6.1 fixes several permalink problems. Image insertion problems in the Press This feature experienced by IE users are also fixed. Of note to everyone is a fix for a performance bug in the admin where those with a lot of plugins would experience slowness on some pages.

I am so looking forward to WordPress 2.7 as lots of features which are available as plugin will be built into the core.

Download WordPress 2.6.1

*UPDATE* I decided to upgrade to stopped the nagging upgrading message to appear.

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