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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “alibaba cloud”

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 “alibaba cloud”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 1 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 Rapls AI Chatbot – Self-Hosted RAG & MCP Server 90+ · 4.9★ (9) wp.org #2 1 too low 2 AI Provider for Alibaba Cloud 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #1 1 too high 3 JennyStudio GEO Factory 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #3 ↑6 4 [凹凸曼] 一键采集微信文章 50+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #4 5 Popular Brand Icons – Simple Icons 3K+ · 4.7★ (10) wp.org #22 ↑1 17 too low 6 AIKCT Engine Chatbot 10+ · 3.0★ (4) wp.org #7 1 too low 7 XHTheme AI Toolbox 100+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #6 1 too high 8 AIT Multilingual Translate — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #5 3 too high 9 EdgeUpload – Direct Cloud Upload for Forms — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 1 too high 10 LangRouter for TranslatePress — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 ↑1 1 too high 11 leosp — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 ↑1 1 too high 12 Bernerslee Site Diagnostics & Recovery — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 ↑2 1 too high 13 Baghwa — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 1 too high 14 PotoSales Order Entry for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↑1 1 too high 15 Altmend – Find and Fix Image Alt Text — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 ↑1 1 too high 16 AumViso – llms.txt, Schema & Sitemaps for AI Search & SEO — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↑1 1 too high 17 OTP Authenticator 40+ · 4.7★ (3) wp.org #24 7 too low 18 VCNS Security Automation Manager — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↑1 2 too high 19 Recourse – AI Chatbot for Customer Support — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↑1 2 too high 20 N Npcink Site Toolbox — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↑1 2 too high 21 Quark AgentFlow AI – Multi-Agent Chatbot & Automated Workflows — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↑1 2 too high 22 A AI Auto Content Publisher Lite — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↑1 2 too high 23 AI Rank Suite — AI Search, llms.txt, Schema & SEO — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 ↑1 2 too high 24 DirectRelay – n8n WordPress Plugin: Workflow Automation, REST API, Webhooks & AI Agents — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↑1 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.