Lester Chan’s WordPress Plugins

I wish all my WordPress Plugins Users a Merry Christmas, hope you all have received your Christmas presents =D

Rest assured I have not stopped developing my plugins. I am going to revamp WP-Ban and have some minor features to WP-PostRatings =)

Kila Morton of PureBlogic has written an article about me and the article is being submitted to digg.

Lester Chan is a student. While attending school, he decided to start developing Wordpress plug-ins to support himself. These plug-ins offer great functionality that extend the Wordpress platform. For instance, at the bottom of this blog there is a rating system. Where did that come from boys and girls? Lester Chan! Need polls for your blog? Who can you turn to? Lester Chan! In fact, Lester has developed over a dozen plug-ins for Wordpress users. These are plug-ins that make it easier for people like you and I to blog about what we love and make money blogging .

THANK YOU Kila Morton!

View: Lester Chan Makes Great Wordpress Plug-ins For Your Blog

Pretty quiet over here recently because I have not been doing any development to any of my plugins because I am so so busy with my projects and exams. Even though my last paper is on the 4th December 2007, I doubt I got time to spend coding the updates to all my plugins as I got a tight schedule lining up for me in December.

Nevertheless, I am still aiming to release updates to my plugins a few days after WordPress 2.4 comes out of the door. Keeping my finger cross.

WordPress 2.3.1 has been released and this fix is a bug-fix and security release for the 2.3 series.

An XSS issue has been fixed here:

A security fix to ensure that edit-post-rows.php cannot be directly loaded to prevent XSS attacks when register_globals is enabled

Get yours today.

I have added all my 16 plugins to this site downloads page, so you guys can grab the beta/development version of all my plugins easier.

All the plugins listed on that page are actually remote files each linking to the development version of the respective plugin over at WordPress Plugins Repository

Do note that the plugins listed there will always be beta/development version because once a version is stable, I will release it to http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming.php and http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/profile/GamerZ, and then move forward to the next development version.

I have updated all my plugins to the new structure as stated in the previous post. This site is running all of them right now. Things might break in this site, please post it in the forums if you find any bugs or any broken stuff.

If you would like to help me test the plugins, do check out: Getting Development Version Of My Plugins.

Thank You.

WordPress 2.3 has been released and I have updated this site to it without any problems.

Copy + Paste from Development Blog

1. Native tagging support allows you to use tags in addition to categories on your post, if you so choose. We’ve included importers for the Ultimate Tag Warrior, Jerome’s Keywords, Simple Tags, and Bunny’s Technorati Tag plugins so if you’ve already been using a tagging plugin you can bring your data into the new system. The tagging system is also wicked-fast, so your host won’t mind.
2. Our new update notification lets you know when there is a new release of WordPress or when any of the plugins you use has an update available. It works by sending your blog URL, plugins, and version information to our new api.wordpress.org service which then compares it to the plugin database and tells you what the latest and greatest is you can use.
3. We’ve cleaned up URLs a bunch in a feature we call canonical URLs which does things like enforce your no-www preference, redirect posts with changed slugs so a link never goes bad, redirect URLs that get cut off in emails on similar to the correct post, and much more. This helps your users, and it also helps your search engine optimization, as search engines like for each page to be available in one canonical location.
4. Our new pending review feature will be great for multi-author blogs. It allows authors to submit a post for review by an editor or administrator, where before they would just have to save a draft and hope someone noticed it.
5. There is new advanced WYSIWYG functionality (we call it the kitchen sink button) that allows you to access some features of TinyMCE that were previously hidden.
6. Full and complete Atom 1.0 support, including the publishing protocol.
7. We’re using the new jQuery whis is “800% faster.”
8. Behind the user-facing tags system is a really kickass taxonomy system which, which adds a ton of flexibility. It’s probably the biggest schema upgrade since version 1.5.
9. The importers have been revamped to be more memory efficient, and you can now add an importer through a plugin.
10. Through hooks and filters you can now override the update system, the dashboard RSS feeds, the feed parser, and tons more than you could in 2.2.
11. The new $wpdb->prepare() way of doing SQL queries.
12. Finally there were over 351 tickets in Trac closed for this release, with over a hundred people contributing. This is the polish, the hundreds of tiny bug fixes and features that make WordPress what it is.

More detailed changes can be found in WordPress Codex.

WordPress 2.3 Beta 2 has been released and this site has been updated to it.

- Download WordPress 2.3 Beta 2

Always wanted to try out creating a Facebook Application and finally took a little bit of time of and created a simple Facebook App called GaMerz.WordPress.

The application simply displays my live site traffic (users online) and the latest post for this site. The file is placed in the WordPress plugins folder but it does not need to get activated. If anybody wants the source code, just drop me an email.

GaMerZ.WordPress Facebook Application

- GaMerZ.WordPress Facebook Application Install URL
- GaMerZ.WordPress Facebook Application URL

Here are some links to help you get started:
- Facebook PHP Client Library
- Step-by-step Guide to Creating a Facebook Application
- Facebook Developers Wiki

I have updated this site to WordPress 2.3 Beta 1 as well as ALL my plugins to be compatible with Wordpress 2.3. All the plugins are running live on this site. If you find any bugs, kindly do let me know by posting it in the forum.

I will be releasing the updated plugins (except WP-WAP and WP-ServerInfo) after WordPress 2.3 is officially released.

After doing some reviewing, most of my plugins will be able to work on WP 2.1 and above (including WP 2.3) except for WP-Stats 2.20 where you need to have at least WP 2.3.

All the plugins version listed below is the upcoming version and NOT the current version (except for WP-Stats 2.11).

Plugins that will work for 2.1.x and above (including WP 2.3)

• WP-Ban 1.20
• WP-DBManager 2.20
• WP-PageNavi 2.20
• WP-PluginsUsed 1.00
• WP-RelativeDate 1.20
• WP-ServerInfo 1.00
• WP-WP-WAP 2.10

Plugins that will work for 2.1.x and above (including WP 2.3) ¹ BUT will break WP-Stats 2.11

• WP-DownloadManager 1.00
• WP-Polls 2.21
• WP-PostRatings 1.20
• WP-PostViews 1.20
• WP-Sticky 1.10
• WP-Useronline 2.20

¹ As the whole structure of WP-Stats had changed, any plugin version prior to the individual version stated above will break WP-Stats 2.11. The only solution to this, is to upgrade WordPress to 2.3, WP-Stats to 2.20 and the respective plugins to the version stated above. If you are not using WP-Stats, you can just ignore this.

Plugins that will work for 2.3 Only

• WP-EMail 2.20
• WP-Print 2.20
• WP-Stats 2.20