Plugin not found issue

  • Resolved Laurent OneChai

    (@lolobu)


    1 week, 4 days ago

    Hello,

    For a few weeks now, I’ve got issues with some of the plugins installed on my WordPress reported as “Plugin not found on wordpress.org” eventhough there are still present.

    After inverstigating a little bit, I found the issue and I have to fix proposal. What happens is that those plugins are very poorly referenced in the plugin directory. For instance, the plugin category-sticky-post doesn’t appear in the first 10 results and hence is reported as not found. But if you query with quotes ‘category-sticky-post’, it’s in the list (even first answer).

    So I tried in the file assets/js/opn-scripts.js line 23 to replace:

    "request[search]": opnSlugs[j],

    with:

    "request[search]": "'" + opnSlugs[j] + "'",

    It fixes the issue. With this code, almost all my plugins are found. I still have issue for column-shortcodes. For this one, changing request[per_page] from 10 to 20 fixes this issue.

    It seems that using the slug is not a garantied ranking factor in the WordPress plugin directory as it used to be when it comes to plugins with very few users and few updates.

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  • Plugin Author Carl Gross

    (@carlgross)

    1 week, 1 day ago

    Hello,

    Sorry for the late reply.

    Thanks very much for pointing out this issue, and your suggested fix. Your fix would have indeed mitigated the issue somewhat. But I believe the real fix–the one to eliminate the issue you raised–was to revert the most recent edit I made. In that edit, I switched from using the more accurate plugin_information action to the less accurate query_plugins action. I’ve now pushed a new version of the plugin (1.0.8) in which I revert that edit. Please update your version to this and let me know if there are further issues.

    Thanks,

    Carl Gross

    Thread Starter Laurent OneChai

    (@lolobu)

    1 week, 1 day ago

    I’ve updated to the latest version and indeed, it does work like a charm 🙂

    Thanks a lot

    Laurent

    Plugin Author Carl Gross

    (@carlgross)

    1 week ago

    OK very glad to hear that. I’ll mark this as resolved.

    Thanks again for pointing that out.

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