[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #32539: Plugin naming issue

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#32539: Plugin naming issue
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 Reporter:  warpdag       |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General       |    Version:  4.2.2
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                |
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 Hello there. We created a few plugins for our wordpress install ourselves,
 and were surprised yesterday when wordpress offered us to update one of
 our own plugins with a new version-- since these are internal it just
 didn't make any sense. It turns out a publicly available plugin was using
 the same name, and WP assumed the plugins were the same, while they
 clearly weren't. Renaming the title of the plugin within the plugin script
 wasn't sufficient, the only way to make this go away was to change the
 actual plugin file/directory names. Somehow WP seems to be relying only on
 plugin names to correlate/validate updates-- might be by design, but
 still, it could at the very least lead to the unintentional deletion of a
 site's plugins, and could potentially lead to much more serious issues.

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