WordPress 3.4

WordPress 3.4 has been released.

For Users

The biggest change in 3.4 is the theme customizer which allows you to play around with various looks and settings for your current theme or one you’re thinking about switching to without publishing those changes to the whole world. For themes that support it, you can change colors, backgrounds, and of course custom image headers. We have more planned for the customizer down the road.

Throughout the rest of the admin you’ll notice tweaks to make your everyday life easier. For example, if you have lots of themes we’ve made it quicker to browse them all at once without paging. We’ve made it possible to use images from your media library to populate custom headers, and for you to choose the height and width of your header images.

We’ve expanded our embed support to include tweets: just put a Twitter permalink on its own line in the post editor and we’ll turn it into a beautiful embedded Tweet. And finally, image captions have been improved to allow HTML, like links, in them.

For Developers

There are hundreds of under-the-hood improvements in this release, notably in the XML-RPC, themes, and custom header APIs, and significant performance improvements in WP_Query and the translation system. The Codex has a pretty good summary of the developer features, and you can always dive into Trac directly.

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Download: WordPress 3.4

PS: My plugins should work with WordPress 3.4, if you discovered any bug, just drop me an email, lesterchan AT gmail.

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WP-ServerInfo 1.60

I have updated WP-ServerInfo to 1.60.

There are 2 changes only:

  1. The major change was adding support for memcached stats if your server has it and your PHP is compiled with it
  2. The other was to tidy up and use readme.txt instead of readme.html so that user can see all the information (including screenshots) within the plugin page itself.

Moving forward, whenever I have time to spare and when I am updating my plugins, I will port the respective plugin’s readme.html to readme.txt to keep it consistent.

Rest assured that my plugins are NOT dead, just not as active as before due to work commitments.

I am always using the latest stable version of WordPress for my website, lesterchan.net, and hence I will make sure that the plugins are compatible with the latest version of WordPress.

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Show Your Love for the Top 100 WordPress Plugin Developers

ManageWP wrote an article entitled, Show Your Love for the Top 100 WordPress Plugin Developers. I am ranked 5th on the charts =D

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We’ve spent rather a lot of time gathering and sorting data for the top 100 WordPress plugin developers, based upon total number of downloads. Unless you are brand new to WordPress, it is likely that you use at least one plugin created by the developers below.

All you need to do is pick out one (or more) of your favorite developers, and take a moment to thank them. We’ve collected all of the Twitter accounts we could find, but we are sure you can find other ways of getting in touch if your chosen developer doesn’t have an account listed.

Firing off a quick tweet to thank a developer for developing great free products will only take a moment, so why not do it?

Furthermore, if you’re on the hunt for plugins to check out, you will find a comprehensive list below of the most popular plugins available for WordPress. Just remember to thank the developer if you start using one!

Top 10 WordPress Plugins Developer

Thanks for the support guys =D

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My WP Plugins Update April 06

Today is April Fool’s Day and I had released updates for 7 of my plugins. Rest assured that this is not a joke. =D

Below are the 7 plugins that I updated. Please check out the changelog for more information.

WordPress 2.0 Plugin: WP-DBManager 2.03
» download | documentation/changelog
Manages your WordPress database. Allows you to optimize database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database and run selected queries.

WordPress 2.0 Plugin: WP-EMail 2.04
» download | demo | documentation/changelog
Enable you to send your webblog entry to a friend.

WordPress 2.0 Plugin: WP-Polls 2.06
» download | demo | documentation/changelog
Adds an integrated poll system to your WordPress.

WordPress 2.0 Plugin: WP-PostRatings 1.01
» download | demo | documentation/changelog
Enables You To Have A Rating System For Your Post.

WordPress 2.0 Plugin: WP-Print 2.04
» download | demo | documentation/changelog
Displays a printable version of your WordPress weblog post.

WordPress 2.0 Plugin: WP-Stats 2.03
» download | demo | documentation/changelog
Display your WordPress statistics.

WordPress 2.0 Plugin: WP-UserOnline 2.03
» download | demo | documentation/changelog
Enable you to display how many users are online on your WordPress with detailed statistics of where they are and who there are(Members/Guests/Search Bots).

As usual, if there are any problems/bugs/errors, please post it in the forum, so that other users who have the same problem can use it as a reference.

If you have problem integrating wp-email.php, wp-polls.php, wp-stats.php or wp-useronline.php, do check out this tutorial I had created, Integrating GaMerZ’s Plugins With Your WordPress Theme

For the rest of my plugins, please visit my Programming Portfolio Page.

Thank you =)

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New Support Forums

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.

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