[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #22129: Plugins cannot be updated when getting updates from outside the repo

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#22129: Plugins cannot be updated when getting updates from outside the repo
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 Reporter:  griffinjt                 |       Type:  defect (bug)
   Status:  new                       |   Priority:  normal
Milestone:  Awaiting Review           |  Component:  Multisite
  Version:  3.4.2                     |   Severity:  normal
 Keywords:  2nd-opinion dev-feedback  |
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 This problem in particular is a bug in MultiSite, but it is a general
 annoyance outside of MultiSite as well.

 WordPress can check for and offer updates to plugins that aren't activated
 if they are listed in the WordPress Plugin Repository. Since the update
 process grabs all the plugin basenames and checks them against the URL in
 the plugins_api function, anything found in the repo will be blessed with
 an update, active or not.

 However, plugins that get updates outside of the repo don't get this
 opportunity if they are not active. I suppose this is expected since the
 plugin is not active (and therefore does not have the ability to filter
 the update_plugins transient or the plugins_api function), but it could
 provide for a poor user experience when they are receiving updates for
 some deactivated plugins and not others when updates are known to exist.

 Beyond this, there is an actual bug with this regarding MultiSite that
 needs to be addressed. If you have a plugin that is receiving updates
 outside of the repo when activated on an individual site in MS, the plugin
 update will be shown when on that site's admin area. However, when you
 click to process the update (assuming you are a network admin), the update
 disappears on the Network Updates screen. Why? Because the plugin is not
 network activated, it is not run and thus no updates are filtered in. This
 means that there is absolutely no way of automatically updating the plugin
 unless you network activate it, run the update, and then network
 deactivate the plugin. Yuck.

 I'm not sure what the best way to approach either of these scenarios would
 be (mainly the second issue with MS), so I wanted to get some other
 opinions on it.

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