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Opened 10 years ago

Last modified 10 years ago

#29609 closed defect (bug)

Admin plugin search results are innacurate & inconsistent — at Initial Version

Reported by: mcguive7's profile McGuive7 Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version: 4.1
Component: Plugins Keywords:
Focuses: ui, administration Cc:

Description

The plugin search results in the WordPress admin don't seem to consistently match the search terms. For example, say I want to install the following plugin: Ambrosite Next/Previous Post Link Plus.

If I search "Ambrosite", I don't get any results ("No plugins match your request.").

If I search "Post Link Plus" I do get results, however Ambrosite Next/Previous Post Link Plus is not included on the first page of results, even though its title has a direct word/order match, and none of the plugins that are displayed do.

If I search "Ambrosite Next/Previous Post Link Plus", the intended plugin finally shows up as the number one result.

It seems to me there are a few issues going on here.

  1. Faulty search matching - why would searching for "Ambrosite" return no results when there is clearly a plugin with that word in the title?
  1. Prioritization - I'm curious what the search matching algorithm is, such that an exact word/order match for the plugin title doesn't yield a top result. This is listed as "fixed" on the following ticket (https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8571), however it doesn't seem to be working as described.

Would love to know what the status is on this one, and if this is a known issue. Thanks!

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