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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “adobe stock”

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 “adobe stock”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 1 of the top 16.

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 StockPack – Stock photos and AI images from Unsplash, Adobe Stock, Freepik and more 7K+ · 4.4★ (24) wp.org #1 2 DataPocket – Connect product data with your design tools 200+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #4 2 too low 3 CI HUB Connector 100+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #2 1 too high 4 WP and Divi Icons 2K+ · 3.3★ (14) wp.org #10 ↓1 6 too low 5 LS Stock Portfolio 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #3 2 too high 6 Smart Auto Featured Image – Featured Image Automation 20+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #5 ↑2 1 too high 7 LightSync Pro – Connect & Sync Cloud Assets | Lightroom, Canva, Figma, Dropbox & Shutterstock 30+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 ↓2 8 Antimanual Builder – Truly AI Powered Visual Page Builder 70+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #6 ↑2 2 too high 9 Photoledger — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 ↓2 1 too high 10 Shilpi Image Kit — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 1 too high 11 LineSW Feed Checker for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 ↓1 12 CardGrid for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 13 TransparAI: EU AI Act Compliance, AI Disclosure & AI Image Detection 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↑1 14 Pressria – Web to Print Product Designer for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 ↓1 15 Clarivo – AI Content Disclosure 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 1 too low 16 Wiwi Cookie Consent — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #15 1 too high

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.