[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #27127: Improve plugin search on installed plugins page

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#27127: Improve plugin search on installed plugins page
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 Reporter:  enej            |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Administration  |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                  |     Focuses:  ui, javascript
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Comment (by enej):

 Hi John

 Do you think this feature is something that might end up in core?

 The latest patch I submitted contains:
 - Search for the plugin name and the description only. Since in the
 previous patch and your plugin the search looks at everything. So if you
 search for edit it would return all plugins instead of finding something
 like EditFlow. It would be better if it could search for plugin authors as
 well. The regular plugin search does search for plugin authors. But it
 also searches html. So if you search 'strong' it will return all the
 plugins that have something bolded in the description as well. I will
 submit a separate ticket and patch for that.
 - The patch also tries to take into account for plugins that have been
 selected by the user. It keeps them shown even though they might not match
 the users selection. Since when someone selects a plugin they most likely
 want to preforms a bulk action. The search fails if you select everything.
 Also it doesn't hide the plugin if it is not part of search results and is
 unselected.
 - If no plugins are found it displays the same no plugins found message as
 regular search.

 What this patch doesn't have.
 - Right now the patch does check if the page has pagination elements but
 it doesn't do an ajax call to the backend implemented. Also do we want to
 have search results paginated as well?
 - This features could should also be implemented for the WordPress
 network.
 - Also the JavaScript is currently inline. Should it be its own file or
 added to one of the existing WordPress JavaScript admin files?

 What I am not sure about is would it be best to develop this as a plugin
 and the try to do a patch to merge in to core? Or is it best to try to do
 a patch that gets merged into core right away? Right now I am trying to
 keep things simple by having the patch only modify one file.

 Also will this change require a JavaScript unit test and a PHP Unit test?

 Cheers
 Enej

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