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 =)

I spoke about WorPress Plugin Development with PHP on Wednesday, 12th December 2007 at the Singapore PHP User Group, Decemember 2007 meetup.

That is the first time I am speaking publicly and hence I was quite nervous and spoke very fast.

During normal days, I speak very fast (all my friends said that) + my nervous = super fast speaking

Anyway, enjoy this fast paced video:

And yes, embedding this video breaks my site XHTML validation!

*UPDATE* The slides can be downloaded here.

As I have received many request to optimized the Javascript for WP-Polls (I will also do it for other plugins but I will beta test it with WP-Polls first), I have used Dean Edwards Packer to pack my Javascript for WP-Polls and then I have moved the Dynamic Javascript variables out of the Javascript file and into the PHP page and now I can renamed it back to .js extension instead of .php.

These 2 things that I have done should help reduce the load on the server.

If are interested to test it out, you can download WP-Polls 2.30 Beta 1.

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.

I will be speaking at Singapore PHP User Group Meetup (Dec 2007) on Wednesday, 12th December 2007 at Singapore Management University (SMU). The meetup will be from 7:30pm - 10:30pm.

My schedule as follows:

2) Technology: Wordpress Plugin Development with PHP

Presenter: Lester Chan, Wordpress Plugin Developer Extraordinaire

I am so nervous as it is my first time speaking publicly!

Lidija from BlogWell, interviewed Lisa Sabin-Wilson, author of WordPress for Dummies. Lisa mentioned my name in the interview and I feel very honored. Thank you Lisa if you are reading this.

Lester Chan. He is a student, and he uses his WordPress plugins to put forward as he is going through school. People make donations to him because his work is fabulous. He’s got a couple of plugins that are just fabulous and one is called

- Read the full transcript of the interview

I have changed all my plugins download links listed on My Programming Portfolio Page to point to the Official WordPress Plugins Repository instead of to my own site as many users have problem downloading it from my site because DreamHost is quite sucky recently. I have been able to download it at times and most of the times the download just got cut off. So I figured out it would be better to point it directly to plugins repository instead.

Sorry if it took so long, I have been very busy with my school.

Go: My Programming Portfolio Page

David Potter has reviewed several WordPress themes and plugins and you can find those reviews here.

He as reviewed 4 of my plugins namely WP-Email, WP-Print, WP-PostViews and WP-DownloadManager.

His reviews are all very detailed, go check them out.

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.