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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “addtocart”

wp.org orders by popularity, so a plugin a host bundled onto millions of sites, or a big-brand one that's slow and mediocre, can sit at the top. Our ranking is built to answer a different question: which of these is actually worth installing. How this works →

For “addtocart”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 8 of the top 20.

wp.org search ranks on

Install count (uncapped), the raw star average, freshness, and support. Popularity dominates, so the biggest install base usually wins regardless of how it got there.

We add

A cap on the install boost, volume-weighted ratings, and signals wp.org can't see: whether the install base is organic or host-pushed, and its risk of being pulled.

Ranked above its merit

Feedliyo Lite – Social Feed & Product Feed & Review Feed shows at wp.org #11 but places #15 on merit, a gap of 4 places. Its 200+ installs carry it up the search order; its 5.0★ average from 1 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Product Feed PRO for WooCommerce by AdTribes – Product Feeds for WooCommerce 80K+ · 4.7★ (1072) wp.org #2 1 too low 2 Pixel Manager for WooCommerce – Conversion Tracking, Google Ads, GA4, TikTok, Dynamic Remarketing 40K+ · 4.9★ (399) wp.org #3 1 too low 3 Meta pixel for WordPress 400K+ · 2.7★ (164) wp.org #1 2 too high 4 TrueAna – True Analytics Dashboard 1K+ · 5.0★ (30) wp.org #4 5 UniPixel: Meta, Pinterest, TikTok, Google & Microsoft Server-Side Tracking for WooCommerce 200+ · 4.8★ (4) wp.org #6 1 too low 6 Add Pinterest conversion tags for Pinterest Ads + Site verification 1K+ · 3.3★ (9) wp.org #5 1 too high 7 TrackSure Cloud – Server-Side Tracking, Meta CAPI & GA4 for WooCommerce 70+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #13 6 too low 8 CAPI Suite: Meta Pixel, Pinterest & TikTok for WooCommerce 100+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #9 ↑1 1 too low 9 CapiFlow – Conversions API (CAPI) Tracking for WooCommerce 20+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #16 7 too low 10 ServerTrack – Server-Side Tracking & Tagging for WooCommerce 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 3 too high 11 Advanced Pixel for Barion 70+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 3 too high 12 CodifyCore sGTM for FluentCart — · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #15 3 too low 13 Meta Pixel Event Tracker for WooCommerce 50+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 ↓1 3 too high 14 {eac}Doojigger MetaPixel Extension for WordPress 30+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 ↓1 2 too high 15 Feedliyo Lite – Social Feed & Product Feed & Review Feed 200+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #11 ↑1 4 too high 16 Openpixly – Conversion Tracking & Product Feed for OpenAI Ads 100+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 1 too low 17 Markopolo AI for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 1 too low 18 FirePixel for WooCommerce — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #14 4 too high 19 Quickout — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 20 Pixlint – Multi-Pixel & Conversions API for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 21 CodifyCore Server-Side Tracking for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 22 Clicks Conversion Tracker — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 23 Halfborg Pixel Tracking for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 24 Netro Ads – Pixel & Conversions API for Meta, Google Ads and ChatGPT 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24

Merit ranking caps the install boost at 1M (wp.org leaves it uncapped), replaces the raw star average with a volume-weighted Bayesian score and a Wilson lower bound, and keeps wp.org's own freshness and compatibility decays. Method from the plugin-directory source; see Meta Trac #8298. Positions are tracked daily from the first visit to a keyword, so the small arrows show movement since tracking began.