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Plugins: add a native "Filter by author" control to the plugins list#11989

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@enricobattocchi enricobattocchi commented May 27, 2026

Adds a native "Filter by author" control to the Plugins screen: a single <select> plus a Filter button in the table navigation, backed by a new plugin_author query variable and populated from installed plugins' Author headers.

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/65359

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Used for: The implementation, unit tests, and CSS were drafted by the AI across several iterations under my direction — I chose the approach (a native <select> + GET form for full accessibility and no-JS / CSP safety), reviewed and edited the output, and ran the test suite. I take responsibility for the contribution.


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Add a single author dropdown (backed by a new plugin_author query var) populated from installed plugins' Author headers, so plugins can be filtered by author without each author injecting a top-level status tab. The grouping is filterable via plugins_list_authors and plugins_list_plugin_author. Includes unit tests.

Follow-up to [61695] / #60495.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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webdados commented May 27, 2026

I second adding this.

And LGTM
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