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

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 “airtel”, we and wp.org disagree 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 the install base is organic or host-pushed, and its risk of being pulled.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Direct Payments for WooCommerce – Bank Transfer, Mobile Money, Crypto and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Payments 800+ · 5.0★ (10) wp.org #3 2 too low 2 Razorpay for WooCommerce 100K+ · 2.5★ (23) wp.org #2 3 Finachub Mobile Money Checkout for WooCommerce (M-Pesa, Airtel, MTN) 200+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #1 2 too high 4 Paytm Payment Gateway 3K+ · 3.1★ (15) wp.org #4 ↑1 5 Direct Invoices – Invoicing & Payment Requests for WordPress 200+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #6 1 too low 6 Payssion Plugin for Woocommerce 400+ · 3.3★ (12) wp.org #7 1 too low 7 MeSomb for WooCommerce 70+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #5 ↓1 2 too high 8 PayChangu Payment Gateway for WooCommerce 100+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 ↓1 2 too low 9 Direct Payments WP – Receive Payments with Forms 50+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #8 1 too high 10 MaishaPay Gateway 40+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 1 too low 11 Wallet Up – Cash App, Venmo, PayPal, Zelle & QR Code Payments 200+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #9 ↑1 2 too high 12 QR Code Payment with USSD Mobile Banking Payment 50+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 13 Paychangu Payment Gateway for GiveWP 30+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 14 AzamPay Gateway for WooCommerce 50+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 15 Fosia Pay Lite – PawaPay Mobile Money for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 16 D Devdraft – Bila Payment Gateway for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↓1 17 S Shashura Mobile Money for CampTix — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 18 A Akabbo Donations — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↓2 19 E ElyonPay for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↓2 20 Nemacladd Payment Addon for Gravity Forms with Pesapal — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓2 21 Jenga Payment Gateway for WooCommerce 30+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 ↓2 22 S SimplyPaye Mobile Money Gateway — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 ↓2 23 Nombar BD Mobile Validator — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↓2 24 E-Billing Payment Gateway 40+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #24 ↓2

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.