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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “amp plugin”

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 “amp plugin”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 8 of the top 20. 3 plugins are pushed down for signals wp.org ignores: errors, a host-installed base, or removal risk.

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.

Ranked above its merit

AMP WP – Google AMP For WordPress shows at wp.org #8 but places #13 on merit, a gap of 5 places. Its 600+ installs carry it up the search order; its 4.5★ average from 55 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

Buried gem

Ad Inserter – Ad Manager & AdSense Ads places #10 on merit, 4.9★ from 2433 reviews, but shows at wp.org #16. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Widgets for Google Reviews 1M+ · 4.9★ (2667) wp.org #1 2 Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings 4M+ · 4.8★ (7520) wp.org #2 3 AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages 70K+ · 4.4★ (1319) wp.org #3 4 Schema & Structured Data for WP & AMP 100K+ · 4.5★ (252) wp.org #4 ↑1 5 All in One SEO – AI SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Traffic (Schema, Local SEO, Sitemap & SEO Insights) 2M+ · 4.7★ (5231) wp.org #6 1 too low 6 GTM4WP – A Google Tag Manager (GTM) plugin for WordPress 700K+ · 4.5★ (155) wp.org #5 ↓1 1 too high 7 Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense 90K+ · 4.9★ (1463) wp.org #9 ↑3 2 too low 8 AMP 300K+ · 3.8★ (367) wp.org #7 1 too high 9 Translate WordPress with GTranslate 900K+ · 4.9★ (4962) wp.org #13 ↑1 4 too low 10 Ad Inserter – Ad Manager & AdSense Ads 300K+ · 4.9★ (2433) wp.org #16 ↑3 6 too low 11 The SEO Framework – Fast, Automated, Effortless. 200K+ · 4.9★ (380) wp.org #10 1 too high 12 Disable Gutenberg 500K+ · 5.0★ (735) wp.org #15 ↑1 3 too low 13 AMP WP – Google AMP For WordPress 600+ · 4.5★ (55) wp.org #8 5 too high 14 Speed Optimizer – The All-In-One Performance-Boosting Plugin 1M+ · 4.2★ (641) wp.org #11 3 too high 15 Head, Footer and Post Injections 200K+ · 4.9★ (735) wp.org #14 ↑1 1 too high 16 Plugin Load Filter 7K+ · 4.8★ (52) wp.org #12 ↑1 4 too high 17 a3 Lazy Load 80K+ · 4.3★ (148) wp.org #17 18 Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery 300K+ · 4.3★ (4342) wp.org #23 5 too low 19 Quads Ads Manager for Google AdSense 20K+ · 4.9★ (1087) wp.org #22 ↑1 3 too low 20 AddToAny Share Buttons 300K+ · 4.7★ (1114) wp.org #20 ↑1 21 Rate My Post – Star Rating Plugin by FeedbackWP 20K+ · 4.7★ (159) wp.org #18 3 too high 22 FAZ Cookie Manager 3K+ · 5.0★ (30) wp.org #19 ↑1 3 too high 23 Super Web Share – Native Social Sharing Button 2K+ · 4.9★ (29) wp.org #21 ↑1 2 too high 24 Web Stories Widgets For Elementor 900+ · 5.0★ (6) 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.