Activity Log: Uploading Plugin is Logged as an Attachment

[bobmatyas]

Impacted plugin

Jetpack

Quick summary

When uploading a plugin via WP Admin, the Activity Log references it as uploading an attachment and then shows it as a deleted attachment after installation.

This could probably be consolidated into one log entry, perhaps "Plugin manually uploaded and installed"

Steps to reproduce

1. Upload a plugin
2. View the Activity Log and notice references to attacments

A clear and concise description of what you expected to happen.

I would expect the Activity Log to be more clear about what happens when manually uploading a plugin

What actually happened

Impact

Most (> 50%)

Available workarounds?

No but the platform is still usable

If the above answer is "Yes...", outline the workaround.

No response

Platform (Simple and/or Atomic)

No response

Logs or notes

No response

[vykes-mac]

I played around with this to see the effort required. I changed Attachment uploaded to Plugin uploaded. I'm wondering if this enhancement is worth the effort though. Technically uploading the plugin zip file is an attachment. We would need to determine if the activity log for that attachment is a plugin then return the appropriate messaging. We may do the check when the log is being returned which would require less effort than changing the log when it's been written, that would have further consequences as we would probably need to backfill older logs.

[supernovia]

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