Admin plugin install page does not correctly sort plugins

[Thomas SCOLAN]

The list of plugins in the featured page is not correctly sorted. The Orderby property does not exists in the items to be compared.

line 139 in plugin-install.php :
$this->orderby = 'group';

Change by :
$this->orderby = 'rating';

[samuelsidler]

Hello Thomas! Thank you for your report.

Note that the actual file path for that line (and this ticket) is:

wp-admin/includes/class-wp-plugin-install-list-table.php

I actually think it would be better to randomly sort the list of featured plugins since there aren't very many of them.

[helen]

For reference, it was set to group because during development the API returned featured plugins sorted into groups. Not sure if there are plans to go back to that.

[samuelsidler]

Replying to helen:

For reference, it was set to group because during development the API returned featured plugins sorted into groups. Not sure if there are plans to go back to that.

Yep. But we don't really have enough featured plugins for groups to matter... And we don't expose the groups anywhere. :)

[jorbin]

Sam is correct, there aren't enough featured plugins for groups to matter and we don't expose the groups anywhere.