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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “admin notebook”

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 “admin notebook”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 0 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 it throws errors on current PHP, whether the install base is organic or host-pushed, and its risk of being pulled.

merit plugin wp.org
1 PI Conditional cart fee / Extra charge rule for WooCommerce 2K+ · 4.9★ (38) wp.org #1 ↑1 2 Instant Search – Turn Search Into Sales 60+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #2 ↑1 3 SwiftSearch for Typesense 10+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #4 ↑1 1 too low 4 Melgab Project ToDo Board 30+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #3 ↑1 1 too high 5 Mind Web Concierge — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #5 ↑1 6 Persian Project Management — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #6 ↑1 7 Reviewer 2 Academic Rejection Stamps & Verdict Widgets — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 ↑1 1 too low 8 RISET – Project Profit & Expense Tracker — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 ↑1 1 too low 9 TrueCommunity – Community & LMS: Social Network, Groups, Courses & Quizzes — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #7 ↑1 2 too high 10 AP Family Research – Genealogy Research Log & Evidence — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 ↑1 11 ApproxIt – Service Estimate Builder — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 ↑1 12 Distan — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 ↑1 13 Team Messenger — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↑1 14 Contexa AI Search — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 ↑1 15 CODZap – COD Confirmation & Abandoned Cart Recovery for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↑1 16 Retail POS for WooCommerce – Point of Sale, Barcode Scanner & Receipts — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↑1 17 AISiteVolt – AI Content, GEO, llms.txt & Local AI (Ollama) — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↑1 18 PaintClarity — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↑2 19 PufferSights – AI Crawler Insights 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 20 JOVION AI Assistant — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↑2 21 DFX Parish Retreat Letters — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 22 Pin Magic – Pin Creator for Pinterest — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 23 AI Crawler Control by Citlyze – robots.txt, llms.txt & AEO Audit — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 24 Admin Notebook — · 1.0★ (1) 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.