[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:  closed
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Plugins       |     Version:  6.8
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:  reported-upstream
 Keywords:                |     Focuses:
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Changes (by SirLouen):

 * keywords:  needs-patch needs-testing =>
 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => reported-upstream


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:7 mindctrl]:
 > I've seen inconsistent search results too, and sometimes find it
 impossible to locate a plugin with search, and have to go download it
 manually.
 >
 > That aside, should this ticket be closed and recreated on the [Meta
 Trac]https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/?

 This is 100% a meta topic as @dd32 has already pointed out (not sure why
 he has not closed yet)

 There should not even be a new ticket adding up to the already ones
 existing like: [https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2642 #2642],
 [https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2753 #2753],
 [https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5231 #5231], etc...

 Replying to [comment:6 terminij]:
 > 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.

 Probably [https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2642 #2642] is the
 nearest one as @terminij is reporting that is searching for `WP multi
 network` plugin as an exact match, and nothing is popping, neither in
 [https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/ plugins search page].

 Conversation should continue in the Meta ticket suggested, here we cannot
 do anything to control results from Meta.

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