Plugin Directory: Keep plugins findable and unflagged for 5 major releases by obenland · Pull Request #1253 · WordPress/wordpress.org

obenland · 2026-11-12T17:42:51Z

Fixes https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5231

Single plugin pages get noindex and are left out of the sitemap as soon as their “Tested up to” falls 3 major releases behind. That hides plugins people still search for by name, including widely used ones such as Limit Login Attempts and WordPress Importer.

As agreed in the ticket, this widens the cutoff to 5 major releases. Template::is_plugin_outdated() now checks against the latest 5 majors. It drives the noindex decision, the Jetpack sitemap skip and the outdated notice, so all three move together. The notice now reads “hasn’t been tested with the latest 5 major releases of WordPress”.

The optional scaling by active installs from the thread is left out, since no concrete rule was settled on.

Testing

With WordPress 7.1 current, the cutoff moves from 6.9 to 6.7.

Open https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-importer/ (tested up to 6.8). Before: <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" /> and the outdated notice. After: no noindex, no notice, and the plugin is listed in the plugin sitemap.
Open a plugin tested up to 6.6 or older, such as https://wordpress.org/plugins/limit-login-attempts/ (6.2). It is still noindex, and the notice says “latest 5 major releases”.
Template_Outdated_Noindex_Test covers the 4- and 5-majors-behind cases.

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Bug Fixes
- Plugin pages now treat plugins that have not been tested with any of the latest five major WordPress releases as outdated.
- Updated the outdated-plugin warning to refer to the latest five major releases, keeping the message consistent with the updated cutoff.

… releases Single plugin pages were noindexed, and dropped from the sitemap, as soon as their "Tested up to" fell 3 major releases behind. That hides plugins people still search for by name, including widely used ones. Widen that cutoff to 5 major releases, as agreed in the ticket. The "not tested with the latest 3 major releases" notice keeps its threshold. Fixes #5231. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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coderabbitai · 2026-11-12T17:43:08Z

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The outdated-plugin cutoff now covers five major WordPress releases. The warning text uses the same five-release window, and a parameterized test checks noindex behavior at four and five releases behind.

Changes: Outdated plugin cutoff

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Set the five-release cutoff `wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/plugin-directory/class-template.php`, `wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/pub/wporg-plugins-2024/inc/template-tags.php`	`is_plugin_outdated()` uses a threshold of the current major version minus `0.4`. The outdated-plugin warning refers to the latest five major releases.
Test the noindex cutoff `wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/plugin-directory/tests/Template_Outdated_Noindex_Test.php`	Parameterized tests assert that a plugin tested four majors behind is not noindexed and one tested five majors behind is noindexed.

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The outdated-plugin notice now appears only after five major releases rather than three. The PR description says it should stay at three. Confirm the intended behavior before merging; the impact is limited to when the notice appears.

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The title names the Plugin Directory and a five-major-release cutoff for keeping plugins findable and unflagged. The changeset does move the outdated-plugin cutoff from three to five major releases for noindex and the outdated notice, and adds a test for it. The title is a reasonable match, though the summary and the commit message disagree on whether the notice copy also changed. The PR description says the three-release notice is retained, while the raw summary and commit message say the notice changed to five. The title says 'unflagged', which fits noindex and sitemap changes but the notice change conflicts with it.

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obenland · 2026-11-12T17:46:45Z

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…ndex and sitemap Drop the release-count argument from Template::is_plugin_outdated() and check against the latest 5 major releases everywhere, so the outdated notice now matches the noindex and sitemap cutoff. Update the notice copy to say 5. See #5231. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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- Line 242: Confirm whether the outdated-plugin notice should use a
three-release or five-release threshold before changing its behavior. Align
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coderabbitai · 2026-11-12T17:51:39Z

 	public static function is_plugin_outdated( $post = null ) {
 		$tested_up_to             = (string) get_post_meta( get_post( $post )->ID, 'tested', true );
-		$version_to_check_against = (string) ( self::get_current_major_wp_version() - 0.2 );
+		$version_to_check_against = (string) ( self::get_current_major_wp_version() - 0.4 );


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Confirm the intended threshold for the outdated-plugin notice.

get_plugin_status_notice() shows the warning only when Template::is_plugin_outdated() returns true. With WordPress 7.1, that check uses 6.7 as the cutoff. A plugin tested up to 6.8 therefore loses the warning.

The PR description says the notice keeps its three-release threshold. The commit message and the notice text at template-tags.php:185 use five releases. If the three-release threshold is required, the notice needs a separate check, and its text needs to say three releases again. Confirm which requirement applies before merging.

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obenland changed the title ~~Plugin Directory: Keep plugins findable in search engines for 5 major releases~~ Plugin Directory: Keep plugins findable and unflagged for 5 major releases Nov 12, 2026

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