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

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 “advent”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 7 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 Customer Engagement System – Popup Builder, Forms, CRM & Email Marketing Automation 9K+ · 4.5★ (340) wp.org #3 2 too low 2 Super Advent Calendar 300+ · 5.0★ (5) wp.org #1 1 too high 3 Genesis Featured Page Advanced 7K+ · 5.0★ (29) wp.org #10 ↓3 7 too low 4 Adventura – Interactive Advent Calendar 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #2 2 too high 5 My Christmas Advent Calendar for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #4 1 too high 6 Passwords Evolved 400+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #7 ↓3 1 too low 7 A Advent Calendar 100+ · 4.2★ (5) wp.org #11 ↓3 4 too low 8 P Pbase Magic Advent Calendar — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #5 3 too high 9 Advent Calendar by Linformatique Neophyte — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #6 3 too high 10 Flusso AI: ChatGPT Content Generator, AI Tools for WordPress 10+ · 4.3★ (6) wp.org #20 ↓3 10 too low 11 Advently – Advent Calendar for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 ↓3 3 too high 12 Adventi – Lead Generator Advent Calendar — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 ↓3 3 too high 13 ViDesigner Christmas Calendar — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 ↓2 1 too high 14 Saito Calendar Event — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↓4 1 too high 15 tymok Presale Waitlist for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 ↓3 1 too high 16 LeadArcade — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↓3 1 too high 17 Saito Navi — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↓3 1 too high 18 ShopBoost – WooCommerce Toolkit — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↓3 1 too high 19 Hidden Word Bible Lessons — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↓3 1 too high 20 Dot Embed 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↓3 1 too high 21 Web-Engine Sentry 40+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 ↓3 22 SDAweb Social Galleri Feed 30+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 ↓3 23 IWS Interactive Church Sermon Notes — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 24 P PaySwitch TheTeller WooCommerce Payment Gateway 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24 ↓4

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.