Lester Chan's WordPress Plugins

Dougal has put up a list of what to expect in WordPress 2.9: Here is the list: Post Thumbnails: add an image to be automatically displayed with the post in various views (main page, archives, etc.)...

WordPress 2.8.4 has been released and also similar to WordPress 2.8.3, this is a security fix. Yesterday a vulnerability was discovered: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset...

WordPress 2.8.3 has been released and smilar to WordPress 2.8.2, this is a security fix. Unfortunately, I missed some places when fixing the privilege escalation issues for 2.8.1. Luckily, the entire WordPress community has our backs...

WordPress 2.8.2 has just been release. WordPress 2.8.2 fixes an XSS vulnerability. Comment author URLs were not fully sanitized when displayed in the admin. This could be exploited to redirect you away from the admin to another site...

WordPress 2.8.1 has been released. WordPress 2.8.1 fixes many bugs and tightens security for plugin administration pages. Core Security Technologies notified us that admin pages added by certain plugins could be viewed by unprivileged users, resulting in information being leaked...

Here is my June 2009 WordPress plugins update containing all my 16 WordPress plugins update. All of them should work on WordPress 2.8 as I did not test them on any WordPress version below that. Now my plugins uses jQuery for AJAX instead of TW-Sack...

WordPress 2.8 has been released! Here is the quote from Matt: I’m very excited to announce to everyone that the latest and greatest version of WordPress, version 2.8 “Baker,” is immediately available for download. 2.8 ...

WordPress 2.8 RC1 has been released. Here is a link to the changelog from beta 2 to rc1. Download: WordPress 2.8 RC1

WordPress 2.8 Beta 2 has been released. Here is a link to the changelog from beta 1 to beta 2. Download: WordPress 2.8 Beta 2

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...

I was interviewed by Mike of shakin.ru, a webdesign blog. Check our the interview in Russian or English.

In WordPress 2.8, there is a new WP_Widget class, which personally I like it very much as now the multi-instances of widgets is handled by WordPress, all you need to do is just to extends the WP_Widget class and overwrite 3 of the functions namely widgets(), update() and form(); Below is a sample...