Problem with "Search Plugins"

  • Resolved Kenneth Berland

    (@kenberland)


    14 years, 5 months ago

    All,

    I’m a plugin author and I’m seeing some broken behavior by the www.ads-software.com plugin search engine. My plugin (and others) fail to be retrieved when they should. To replicate:

    • Visit https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/
    • On the left-hand menu, follow the link for “Plugins->Newest”
    • Pick a unique-ish term from a new plugin. I chose “noshop”
    • Put “noshop” in the left-hand menu “Search Plugins” form input and click “search”
    • “No results found”
    • Change the radio button from “Relevance” to “Newest” and search again.
    • This yields the expected result.

    Given that “Relevance” is the default search-sort, users cannot find my plugin (Ticketbud) or many others. Why are we not relevant? How can I become relevant (I ask myself this each day.)?

    Thanks in advance.

    -Ken

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    To save resources, the server-side search engine only properly indexes the plugin directory once a week.

    It’s definitely an inconvenience to both developers and users, but considering the level of plugin submissions and activity on the www.ads-software.com server, it’s a necessary inconvenience.

    Thread Starter Kenneth Berland

    (@kenberland)

    A version of the plugin with the term “ticketbud” in it has been on the wordpress servers for more than two weeks:

    [ideabud@hero ticketbud]$ svn info -r289812 tags/0.1/readme.txt
    Path: readme.txt
    Name: readme.txt
    URL: https://plugins.svn.www.ads-software.com/ticketbud/trunk/readme.txt
    Repository Root: https://plugins.svn.www.ads-software.com
    Repository UUID: b8457f37-d9ea-0310-8a92-e5e31aec5664
    Revision: 289812
    Node Kind: file
    Last Changed Author: kenberland
    Last Changed Rev: 289812
    Last Changed Date: 2010-09-15 10:01:00 -0700 (Wed, 15 Sep 2010)

    [ideabud@hero ticketbud]$ svn cat -r289812 tags/0.1/readme.txt
    === ticketbud ===
    Contributors: kenb
    Tags: online tickets, event marketing, buy tickets online, selling tickets, ticket sell, sponsorship marketing, tickets on line, online ticketing, purchase tickets online, sell concert tickets, how to sell tickets, online ticket sales, sell tickets online, promote event, tickets tool, sports sponsor, internet tickets, sell my tickets, sell your tickets, web ticketing, ticketing tool, internet ticketing, diy tickets, sell sponsorships
    Requires at least: 2.0
    Tested up to: 3.0
    Stable tag: 2.3.0

    The ticketbud plugin displays links to your ticketbud events and makes buying tickets simple for your visitors.

    == Description ==

    The ticketbud plugin displays links to your ticketbud events and make buying tickets simple for your readers.

    You will need an account at https://www.ticketbud.com to use this plugin.

    == Installation ==

    Upload the ticketbud plugin to your blog, Activate it, then enter your ticketbud user id.

    You’re done!

    == Changelog ==

    Thanks James,
    Ken

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    In that case, contact [email protected]

    Thread Starter Kenneth Berland

    (@kenberland)

    FYI:

    Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 09:07:53 +0000
From: Plugins Support <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Plugins #600219]: [www.ads-software.com Forums] Problem with "Search Plugins" (fwd)

Hi,
My apologies - this issue is being worked on by a developer and should be fixed soon.
-
Mark
    Thread Starter Kenneth Berland

    (@kenberland)

    Why is this thread marked “resolved” when the problem persists?

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Because you received an answer and it’s being worked on by the plugin team. The issue may be not be resolved on their end, but it is resolved as far as the support forum is concerned because there’s nothing else that we can do here and the plugin team tracks their own issues separate from the forums.

    I realize this is a bug, and the plugin team is working on it, however, I am also having this issue with my plugin https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/jquery-t-countdown-widget/
    So I bumped and ticked the notify box.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Yeah, you have to contact [email protected]

    There’s nothing we can do about it here.

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