Ticket #6863 (assigned defect)

Opened 4 months ago

Last modified 3 months ago

Plugin Update Notification incorrectly notifies

Reported by: csogilvie Assigned to: mdawaffe (accepted)
Priority: normal Milestone: 2.9
Component: Administration Version: 2.5.1
Severity: normal Keywords: dev-feedback
Cc:

Description

We have a released Plugin on Wordpress.org - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flickr-thumbnails-photostream/ which has the following headers in the PHP script. 

/*
Plugin Name: Flickr Thumbnail Photostream
Plugin URI: http://community.plus.net/open-source/
Description: Generates a random selection of photo thumbnails from a given Flickr account.
Version: 1.0.1
Author: PlusNet Plc - Developer Responsible: James Tuck (Web Development Team)
Author URI: http://community.plus.net/open-source/
Copywrite: 2008 PlusNet plc
*/

We also have another two plugins which we use which aren't released, one of which has: 

/*
Plugin Name: Wordpress News Ticker
Plugin URI: http://community.plus.net/open-source/
Description: Displays a 'ticker' tape of items within your 'Blogroll' in the category 'Ticker'
Version: 0.1
Author: Colin Ogilvie
Author URI: http://community.plus.net/
*/

as it's header.

On checking my Plugins page, I'm alerted to an upgrade for the other two plugins, despite the fact that there is no way that api.wordpress.org could know about them (and there's not an update anyway).

It would be useful if this could be fixed as it's very annoying.

Change History

04/29/08 01:50:23 changed by DD32

  • keywords set to dev-feedback.

It appears that api.wordpress.org is basing it off the plugins URI.

Changing the URI to a unique value fixes it for me.

05/08/08 09:08:25 changed by csogilvie

The problem, of course, is that not all plugins are going to have a unique URI which is why this problem occurred.

It would be useful if this could be changed to also work on the Plugin Name as well as the URI or something.

05/11/08 06:12:44 changed by war59312

Indeed annoying so I am using http://lud.icro.us/disable-wordpress-plugin-updates/ to stop it from telling me there are updates when there are in fact none.

These two plug-ins are incorrectly reported as having updates:

Not-To-Me: https://skippy.net/SVN/plugins/wordpress/not-to-me/

It takes you to download wp-cron 1.3

WP-Cron Moderation: https://skippy.net/SVN/plugins/wordpress/wp-cron/wp-cron-moderation.php

Again it takes you to download wp-cron 1.3

05/22/08 04:49:06 changed by lloydbudd

  • owner changed from anonymous to mdawaffe.

05/29/08 22:00:47 changed by mdawaffe

  • status changed from new to assigned.