id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	focuses
49656	WP_Plugins_List_Table: redirects on core row actions when the current view is a custom view	pbiron		"`WP_Plugins_List_Table::__construct()` sets a global variable to the current value of the `plugin_status` query arg.  That global is used in the URLs of the row action links ('activate', 'deactivate', etc) core adds, so that when a user clicks any of those links the user is returned to same view they were on.

Like all good list tables, `WP_Plugins_List_Table` allows custom views to be added (with the `views_plugins` and `views_plugins-network` filters).

The problem is that the list table constructor sets the global variable to 'all' if `plugin_status` query arg is for a custom one.

Hence, when the current view is a custom view, then the core row actions take the user back to 'all', which is a bad UX in that he behavior of core's row actions is different depending on whether the current view is built-in to core or is custom.

This came up recently in [https://github.com/audrasjb/wp-autoupdates/issues/49#issuecomment-599068276 an issue] opened against the [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-autoupdates/ WordPress Auto-updates] Feature plugin.

That specific issue will resolve itself when the feature plugin is merged in core because the `plugin_status` for the 2 views it adds will be added to the whitelist in the constructor.  But the problem will still exist for any other plugins that add custom views to that list table.

`WP_MS_Themes_List_Table::__construct()` also sets a global that is whitelisted to the statuses that core knows about.  However, that is not a problem because it doesn't use that global to add a query arg to the row action links: the redirects on the row actions are handled differently.

I think the easiest way to address this would be modify `WP_Plugins_List_Table` (and `wp-admin/plugins.php`) to handle the redirects on core row actions actions the same way that `WP_MS_Themes_List_Table` does."	defect (bug)	new	normal	Awaiting Review	Plugins		normal				administration