wp-admin/includes/class-plugin-upgrader.php:462Checks that the source package contains a valid plugin.
$sourcestringstring|WP_Error public function check_package( $source ) { global $wp_filesystem; $wp_version = wp_get_wp_version(); $this->new_plugin_data = array(); if ( is_wp_error( $source ) ) { return $source; } $working_directory = str_replace( $wp_filesystem->wp_content_dir(), trailingslashit( WP_CONTENT_DIR ), $source ); if ( ! is_dir( $working_directory ) ) { // Confidence check, if the above fails, let's not prevent installation. return $source; } // Check that the folder contains at least 1 valid plugin. $files = glob( $working_directory . '*.php' ); if ( $files ) { foreach ( $files as $file ) { $info = get_plugin_data( $file, false, false ); if ( ! empty( $info['Name'] ) ) { $this->new_plugin_data = $info; break; } } } if ( empty( $this->new_plugin_data ) ) { return new WP_Error( 'incompatible_archive_no_plugins', $this->strings['incompatible_archive'], __( 'No valid plugins were found.' ) ); } $requires_php = isset( $info['RequiresPHP'] ) ? $info['RequiresPHP'] : null; $requires_wp = isset( $info['RequiresWP'] ) ? $info['RequiresWP'] : null; if ( ! is_php_version_compatible( $requires_php ) ) { $error = sprintf( /* translators: 1: Current PHP version, 2: Version required by the uploaded plugin. */ __( 'The PHP version on your server is %1$s, however the uploaded plugin requires %2$s.' ), PHP_VERSION, $requires_php ); return new WP_Error( 'incompatible_php_required_version', $this->strings['incompatible_archive'], $error ); } if ( ! is_wp_version_compatible( $requires_wp ) ) { $error = sprintf( /* translators: 1: Current WordPress version, 2: Version required by the uploaded plugin. */ __( 'Your WordPress version is %1$s, however the uploaded plugin requires %2$s.' ), $wp_version, $requires_wp ); return new WP_Error( 'incompatible_wp_required_version', $this->strings['incompatible_archive'], $error ); } return $source; }Introduced in 3.3.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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