[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #64855: Connectors: AI provider plugins shown as "not installed" on sites with many plugins

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#64855: Connectors: AI provider plugins shown as "not installed" on sites with many
plugins
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 Reporter:  clifgriffin   |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  AI            |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                |
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 == Description ==

 The AI Connectors admin page (`options-connectors.php`) fails to detect
 installed AI provider plugins when the site has more than ~10 plugins
 installed and the AI provider plugins fall outside the first 10
 alphabetically. Affected provider plugins (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, or
 any third-party connector plugin) show as "not installed" even though they
 are installed and active.

 This only affects sites where the alphabetically-sorted first 10 plugins
 do not include the AI connector provider plugins. Sites with fewer than
 ~10 total installed plugins, or where the provider plugins happen to sort
 into the first 10, are unaffected.

 == Root Cause ==

 In `routes/connectors-home/use-connector-plugin.ts`, the
 `useConnectorPlugin` hook calls `getEntityRecords("root", "plugin")`
 without specifying `per_page: -1`. Core-data's `getQueryParts()` defaults
 `perPage` to `10` (`packages/core-data/src/queried-data/get-query-
 parts.ts`), so the selector only returns the first 10 plugin records from
 the store, even though the REST API response contains all installed
 plugins.

 On a site with many plugins, any connector provider plugin that sorts past
 position 10 alphabetically will never be found by the `.find()` call:

 {{{
 const plugin = plugins.find(
     (p) => p.plugin === `${pluginSlug}/plugin`
 );
 }}}

 This causes `derivedPluginStatus` to be set to `"not-installed"` and the
 UI shows an "Install" button for plugins that are already installed and
 active.

 == Steps to Reproduce ==

 1. Install WordPress 7.0 beta 5
 2. Have more than ~10 plugins installed (they don't need to be active —
 just installed on disk so that the provider plugins sort past position 10
 alphabetically)
 3. Install and activate any AI provider plugin (e.g., `ai-provider-for-
 google`, `ai-provider-for-anthropic`, or `ai-provider-for-openai`)
 4. Navigate to Settings > Connectors (`options-connectors.php`)
 5. Observe that the connector shows an "Install" button despite the
 provider plugin being installed and active

 == Expected Result ==

 Connector should show as active/connected.

 == Actual Result ==

 Connector shows "Install" button. In the browser console,
 `wp.data.select('core').getEntityRecords('root', 'plugin')` returns only
 10 plugins instead of the full list.

 == Proposed Fix ==

 In the `useConnectorPlugin` hook, change:

 {{{
 const plugins = store2.getEntityRecords("root", "plugin");
 }}}

 to:

 {{{
 const plugins = store2.getEntityRecords("root", "plugin", { per_page: -1
 });
 }}}

 This matches the pattern used elsewhere in core when fetching unpaginated
 entity records.

 == Notes ==

 The plugins REST controller (`class-wp-rest-plugins-controller.php`)
 already returns all plugins without pagination (it explicitly removes
 `page`/`per_page` from collection params), so the REST API response is
 correct — the issue is purely in the client-side selector pagination.

 == Environment ==

 WordPress 7.0 beta 5, tested with 238 installed plugins (1 active).

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/64855>
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