wpengine / wpengine/wpackagist

Incorrect plugin versions temporarily returned by WPackagist

Open
#594 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Dominant language
PHP
Stars
768
Forks
69
Avg merge
3h 52m
Merged PRs (30d)
1

Description

Hi,

today (2026-09-17) WPackagist temporarily returned incorrect versions for at least two WordPress plugins.

Examples:

pymntpl-paypal-woocommerce

WPackagist offered:

wpackagist-plugin/pymntpl-paypal-woocommerce 2.0.26 => 4.0.12

Composer then tried to download:

https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/pymntpl-paypal-woocommerce.4.0.12.zip

which returned HTTP 404.

The actual current version is 2.0.26.

repeater-for-contact-form-7

WPackagist offered:

wpackagist-plugin/repeater-for-contact-form-7 4.8.0 => 7.8.0

The actual current version is 4.8.0.

This occurred during normal composer update runs and affected multiple independent projects.

A short time later, running composer update again resulted in WPackagist correcting both versions:

Downgrading wpackagist-plugin/pymntpl-paypal-woocommerce (4.0.12 => 2.0.26)
Downgrading wpackagist-plugin/repeater-for-contact-form-7 (7.8.0 => 4.8.0)

So the incorrect metadata appears to have been temporary.

Could you please check whether there was an issue with the WordPress.org/SVN metadata synchronization or version parsing?

Thanks!

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by examining the WordPress.org/SVN metadata synchronization and version-parsing entry points, then reproduce the report with Composer update for the two named plugins. Done means WPackagist consistently publishes the actual versions 2.0.26 and 4.8.0, and Composer no longer requests the 404 download URLs.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
php, wordpress
Domain
backend, release
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.