Title: Plugin not found issue
Last modified: September 20, 2026

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# Plugin not found issue

 *  Resolved [Laurent OneChai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lolobu/)
 * (@lolobu)
 * [1 week, 5 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-found-issue/)
 * 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.
    -  This topic was modified 1 week, 5 days ago by [Laurent OneChai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lolobu/).

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 *  Plugin Author [Carl Gross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carlgross/)
 * (@carlgross)
 * [1 week, 1 day ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-found-issue/#post-19027842)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lolobu/)
 * (@lolobu)
 * [1 week, 1 day ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-found-issue/#post-19027844)
 * I’ve updated to the latest version and indeed, it does work like a charm 🙂
 * Thanks a lot
 * Laurent
 *  Plugin Author [Carl Gross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carlgross/)
 * (@carlgross)
 * [1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-found-issue/#post-19029090)
 * OK very glad to hear that. I’ll mark this as resolved.
 * Thanks again for pointing that out.

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 * Status: resolved