Opened 15 years ago
Closed 9 years ago
#13928 closed defect (bug) (duplicate)
WP.org plugin update notifications should consider plugin slug
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Description
I have a plugin named "Events Calendar." The actual plugin file and directory is filosofo-event-calendar/filosofo-event-calendar.php
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However, I get update notifications for it for this plugin, even though its file is events-calendar/events-calendar.php
Everything else--author name, description, and URL--differs as well.
WP.org update notifications should be smart enough to distinguish between plugins with different file structures, at least.
Change History (8)
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13 years ago
Related #11227
Okay, I have a plugin with the following official header:
/* Plugin Name: Subscribe2 Plugin URI: http://subscribe2.wordpress.com Description: Notifies an email list when new entries are posted. Version: 7.0.1 Author: Matthew Robinson Author URI: http://subscribe2.wordpress.com Donate link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=2387904 */
Now I also have a fork of this code that enables the notifications to contain HTML rather than being plain text. I've made the headers as different as I can:
/* Plugin Name: Subscribe2 HTML Plugin URI: http://wpplugins.com/plugin/46/subscribe2-html/ Description: Notifies an email list with an HTML email when new entries are posted. Version: 7.0 Author: Matthew Robinson Author URI: http://wpplugins.com/plugin/46/subscribe2-html/ Donate link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=2387904 */
But this STILL shows as being the same plugin even though the filename is different. This continues to happen even if I change the author name to Albert Einstein!
Is the version comparison a little bit too fuzzy so they we are risking too many false positives? Or am I doing something wrong in the headers?
Related: #14179