[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #12801: Add Info link to plugins management screen

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#12801: Add Info link to plugins management screen
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 Reporter:  jane             |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Administration   |     Version:  3.0
 Severity:  minor            |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  ui-focus         |
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Changes (by Thaicloud):

 * cc: Thaicloud (added)
 * severity:  normal => minor


Comment:

 Not sure if this is of any use, but I wrote a plugin which does grab this
 information from WP.org: http://wordpress.org/plugins/more-plugin-info/

 One of the issues which I ran into was that the necessary API call is too
 slow to do for each installed plugin every time the plugins page loads. I
 allowed this behavior to be toggled on, but by default a manual sync needs
 to be run to collect info about each installed plugin.

 Point being, unless there is an alternative way to grab this data- I do
 not think that such a small feature is worth such expensive API calls;
 thus, this might be best kept in the realm of plugins.

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