[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #63680: Buggy - Add Plugin > Keyword Search - Finding Plugins in the official WP Plugin Repository

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#63680: Buggy - Add Plugin > Keyword Search - Finding Plugins in the official WP
Plugin Repository
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 Reporter:  terminij                   |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)               |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                     |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Plugins                    |     Version:  6.8
 Severity:  normal                     |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch needs-testing  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by terminij):

 While I appreciate everyone's responses to this, it doesn't quite make
 sense or "add up" to me at least, because:
 1. I've searched this plugin many times before and there are many days it
 comes up just fine.
 2. This is not the only plugin I have seen this happening with, which is
 what sparked me to write this bug report, not simply this one and only
 plugin having this issue. I literally just had this happen the other day
 with "Post Duplicator - By Metaphor Creations" plugin was not populating
 in the search, I temporarily moved onto another plugin, but at a later
 date when searched for again it populated just fine and I was able to
 install it via wp-admin as per usual, as well as it is today, like right
 now, I just checked, populating and displaying in the search just fine -
 and that plugin is completely updated for the current version of WordPress
 (so this confirms it's not just happening with outdated plugins).
 3. Many (if not all) even more outdated plugins still show up in the
 search (while there could still be an argument for this), with all the
 other facts surrounding this entire issue, points to this not being the
 reason.
 4. Even if it was being "deprioritized", it wouldn't be removed completely
 (or shouldn't at least). Any plugin existing in the official repositoty
 that has not been "archived" (may not be the right word,
 "depreciated/removed" and is ABLE to be installed should show in the
 search results.

 You, mention that, "The plugin IS in the index (I've checked)" - I'm not
 sure what index you're referring to, but it is not listed in the live
 WordPress search pages (eg. https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/), at
 least not for me, not right now, (and the only way to truly test this is
 to search by plugin author - otherwise the returned list of plugins
 (pages) would be too long to manually comb through) and searching 'john
 James jacoby' returns 28 plugins and wp-multi-network should be one of
 them, but it's not and I am not sure how we are both seeing 2 different
 version of the live WordPress.org site, unless you're referring to the
 actual plugin index (outside of search, eg.
 https://wordpress.org/plugins/), then yes it is in that index but does not
 come up during search.

 Unfortunately I haven't kept a detailed list, but I may start to log this
 issue in more detail with dates and times and plugin names this happens
 with moving forward and update here when I can, as I really do wish I
 could remember them all, but it's happened so many times and for the sake
 of time, I just opted to manually downloading and installing rather than
 take the time to mess with a time consuming bug report. The only reason I
 decided to write one now is because I started it happening more frequently
 and all too often and then started my own testing to confirm  it wasn't
 something I was doing wrong or my own misconfiguration (somewhere)...

 Anyways, thanks for all of your time. I wouldn't be surprised if this is
 happening and no one is reporting simply due to the simple fix of manual
 install as well as time constraints.

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