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Opened 13 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#17406 closed enhancement (fixed)

Include link to view plugin details on 'Updates' page

Reported by: secgen's profile SecGen Owned by: nacin's profile nacin
Milestone: 3.3 Priority: normal
Severity: trivial Version: 3.2
Component: Administration Keywords: has-patch
Focuses: Cc:

Description

When there are updates available, I check out the 'Updates' page to see what's new. Before installing updated plugins I almost always check their changelog to see what impact it may have, however it's not possible to do this on the Updates page! Users have to go to the Plugins page, and scroll down the list (or click Update Available), and then they can click on the 'View version X.x details' for each available plugin update.

To facilitate this process it would make a lot of sense to also include the 'View version X.x details' link (see below) next to each available plugin update on the 'Updates' page. It's fairly trivial really (maybe in 3.2? ;), and would make Admins' lives easier.

http://www.domain.com/wp-admin/plugin-install.php?tab=plugin-information&plugin=<plugin-name>&TB_iframe=true&width=640&height=771

It'd be much appreciated. Thanks.

Attachments (1)

17406.diff (1.5 KB) - added by Otto42 13 years ago.
Patch to add View Version X details to Update-core page, for plugins.

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Change History (11)

#1 @Otto42
13 years ago

  • Keywords has-patch added

Easy patch to make. Just added the link and the relevant thickbox and thickbox resizing code.

@Otto42
13 years ago

Patch to add View Version X details to Update-core page, for plugins.

#2 @SecGen
13 years ago

Cheers Otto. Was going to try making a patch tonight, but it would've taken me longer as I've never tried making a patch for WP before.

#3 @SecGen
13 years ago

Come on guys, can't we get this into 3.2? It's such a trivial change that has no impact on functionality/compatibility.

#4 follow-up: @dd32
13 years ago

Come on guys, can't we get this into 3.2?

Unfortunately not, The time for getting new enhancements into 3.2 has long passed.

#5 in reply to: ↑ 4 @SecGen
13 years ago

Replying to dd32:

Come on guys, can't we get this into 3.2?

Unfortunately not, The time for getting new enhancements into 3.2 has long passed.

I've been using Otto's patch and it's great. Any chance of getting this reviewed into a milestone?

#6 @SergeyBiryukov
13 years ago

  • Keywords 3.4-early added
  • Milestone changed from Awaiting Review to Future Release

The patch still applies and works fine.

This looks like a nice enhancement, but looking at 3.3 project schedule, we're
already in non-leads feature freeze.

Marking as 3.4-early, unless someone from the core team wants to include it in 3.3.

#7 @SergeyBiryukov
13 years ago

Closed #18597 as a duplicate.

#8 @paulhastings0
13 years ago

Glad to see someone else found it. In case anyone else wasn't convinced, here's a screencast illustrating our point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRcS06HtcTs

#9 @SergeyBiryukov
13 years ago

  • Keywords 3.4-early removed
  • Milestone changed from Future Release to 3.3

Feature freeze has been put off for another week. This could be a nice addition to 3.3, since core changelogs are also in the scope.

#10 @nacin
12 years ago

  • Owner set to nacin
  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

In [19003]:

Better padding and information on the plugins list on Dashboard/Updates. props otto42. fixes #17406.

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