Enhancement: Show plugin cards when external requests fail (#2189)

[ArjunSaluja]

Fixes #2189

This PR introduces a fallback mechanism that displays locally installed
plugin cards when requests to WordPress.org plugin API fail or are blocked.

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Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 0% with 35 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 68.39%. Comparing base (4f17dd7) to head (37c4217).

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
...ab/modules/plugin-management/plugin-management.php	0.00%	35 Missing ⚠️

Additional details and impacted files

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  Files          90       91       +1     
  Lines        8093     8128      +35     
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  Hits         5559     5559              
- Misses       2534     2569      +35     

Flag	Coverage Δ
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single	35.26% <0.00%> (-0.16%)	⬇️

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[westonruter]

There is already a pull request in progress to address this issue: #2190

[ArjunSaluja]

Please check mine also it would be helpful

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[westonruter]

But did you see that existing PR? It would be a shame to duplicate work. Please review that PR and check to see if there is anything missing based on what you've done here. Please add suggestions to that PR.