wp-admin/includes/plugin-install.php:241Retrieves popular WordPress plugin tags.
$argsarrayoptionalarray()array|WP_Errorfunction install_popular_tags( $args = array() ) { $key = md5( serialize( $args ) ); $tags = get_site_transient( 'poptags_' . $key ); if ( false !== $tags ) { return $tags; } $tags = plugins_api( 'hot_tags', $args ); if ( is_wp_error( $tags ) ) { return $tags; } set_site_transient( 'poptags_' . $key, $tags, 3 * HOUR_IN_SECONDS ); return $tags;}Introduced in 2.7.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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src/wp-admin/includes/plugin-install.php, and regenerated for each WordPress release so it tracks the code rather than a snapshot of it.