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Opened 8 years ago

Closed 5 days ago

#40475 closed enhancement (worksforme)

Additional way to add plugin by indicating URL|slug of plugin page

Reported by: tobifjellner's profile tobifjellner Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version:
Component: Plugins Keywords:
Focuses: administration Cc:

Description

Today, when using the UI to add a new plugin, I only have two basic options.

  • I may either upload the plugin as a zip-file, which somehow hasn't got into my behavior yet. (But soon may, if the issue described here doesn't get a nice solutuion.)
  • Or I can search for Keyword|Author|Tag

I'd like to have a third way of finding the plugin. Reason is I may already know the exact plugin slug (or plugin URL).

One way might be to add one more option in the drop-down, to make it Keyword|Author|Tag|Plugin URL

And if the user selects the option Plugin URL, then we should disregard anything up to last occurrence of "/" and then use that last part as the plugin slug.

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2017-04-18.png (134.8 KB) - added by tobifjellner 8 years ago.
Even if I search for the full URL of the plugin Akismet, it doesn't reach page one today…

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Change History (6)

@tobifjellner
8 years ago

Even if I search for the full URL of the plugin Akismet, it doesn't reach page one today...

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8 years ago

#2 @SergeyBiryukov
8 years ago

  • Component changed from Options, Meta APIs to Plugins
  • Focuses administration added

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7 years ago

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4 years ago

#5 @johnjamesjacoby
5 days ago

  • Milestone Awaiting Review deleted
  • Resolution set to worksforme
  • Status changed from new to closed

Search on the WordPress.org Plugins section has been improved to include URL since this ticket was created.

The example attached (Akismet) now returns the anticipated plugin as its primary result, and other plugins work similarly.

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