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An error occurred while installing Widon’t Part Deux on ebinnion69.wpcomstaging.com.
This notice is incorrect because the plugin was installed, but it couldn't be activated. This is because the plugin fatals on activation which we see when we activate the plugin from wp-admin.
Some bits of feedback to share here are:
The plugin installation should fail much quicker. While I didn't time it, it probably took upwards of a minute.
The plugin installation error message is incorrect in this case since the plugin did install but couldn't activate. Ideally, we'd be able to tell the user that the plugin errored on activation so we disabled it as a safety mechanism.
Perhaps more ideally, we would just delist the widont-part-deux and other similar plugins if they're guaranteed to fail on sites.
I've created #92284 to update the error message to be more clear on what has happened and also update the modal state so that you can see that the plugin is installed (but not activated).
The slow response appears to be due to how the manage sites on plugins works, where it queues up auto updates each time the plugins endpoint is queried. This coupled by an issue ( p1720076625916529/1719866457.103339-slack-CDLH4C1UZ ) where the plugins that we are trying to update are on Github (not the WP.ORG repo) which means they constantly fail to update as the endpoint doesn't yet support that.
@lupus2k is working on a fix, or at least a bypass of Github plugins, to help avoid the noise from this issue.
Quick summary
When attempting to install
widont-part-deux
on a site from https://wordpress.com/plugins/widont-part-deux, the installation takes quite a long time then errors out with a notice of:This notice is incorrect because the plugin was installed, but it couldn't be activated. This is because the plugin fatals on activation which we see when we activate the plugin from
wp-admin
.Some bits of feedback to share here are:
widont-part-deux
and other similar plugins if they're guaranteed to fail on sites.Steps to reproduce
wp-admin
and verify that the plugin did install but did not activate.What you expected to happen
A quicker process with more correct error states.
What actually happened
As described above.
Impact
Some (< 50%)
Available workarounds?
Yes, easy to implement
Platform (Simple and/or Atomic)
No response
Logs or notes
No response
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