Details link only visible if update available?

[joshbali]

Great and very useful piece of code. What I'm trying to understand is why the "View Details" link is only visible when a new update is available. I'm fairly new to plugin development and I cant work out how to display the link constantly even if no new update is available.

[VincentPeraud]

Hi, you can add the view detail button with the following code (Source: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/162146/plugin-view-details-link)

add_action('plugin_row_meta', 'my_plugin_row_meta', 10, 3);
function my_plugin_row_meta($plugin_meta, $_plugin_file, $plugin_data) {
    $name = 'NAME_OF_YOUR_PLUGIN_HERE';
    $slug = 'SLUG_OF_YOUR_PLUGIN_HERE';

    if ($plugin_data['Name'] !== $name) {
        return $plugin_meta;
    }

    $plugin_meta[] = sprintf(
        '<a href="%s" class="thickbox open-plugin-details-modal" aria-label="%s" data-title="%s">%s</a>',
        esc_url(
            network_admin_url(
                "plugin-install.php?tab=plugin-information&plugin=$slug&TB_iframe=true&"
            )
        ),
        esc_attr(sprintf(__('More information about %s'), $plugin_data['Name'])),
        esc_attr($plugin_data['Name']),
        __('View details')
    );'

    return $plugin_meta;
}

[brasofilo]

We need to add the following to prevent duplicate "View details" when an update is available:

if (isset($plugin_data['update'])) {
    return $plugin_meta;
}