Jetpack 7.1 was released earlier this month with new blocks for WordAds, Business Hours, Contact Info, Slideshows, and Videos. This release also quietly added suggestions to the plugin search screen, a change that has not been well-received by the developer community. If a user searches for a plugin that has a feature that is already offered by Jetpack, the plugin will insert an artificial (and dismissible) search result into the first plugin card slot, identifying the corresponding Jetpack feature. Although these suggestions in plugin search results were not presented as a headline feature in the 7.1 release post, it was clearly listed in the changelog under enhancements. More people began taking notice after WordPress developer Mehul Gohil tweeted a screenshot of it on a live site:
Nowadays, plugin search in #WordPress admin suggests a product/add-on. I see the future of these suggestions to be used by plugin authors to keep their product first in certain plugin search terms for upsells like admin notices.
What do you think about this? #DontHijackWPAdmin pic.twitter.com/TERjrPgEt6
— Mehul Gohil (@mehul_gohil0810) March 26, 2019
Manipulating search results, even to insert an
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/18509/wpdrama-jetpack-7-1-adds-feature-suggestions-to-plugin-search-results
source https://williechiu40.wordpress.com/2019/04/03/wpdrama-jetpack-7-1-adds-feature-suggestions-to-plugin-search-results/
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