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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “automatic cart remove”

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 “automatic cart remove”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 12 of the top 20. 10 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

Remove Cart Products shows at wp.org #5 but places #18 on merit, a gap of 13 places. Its 100+ installs carry it up the search order; its 5.0★ average from 3 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

Buried gem

Polylang places #10 on merit, 4.7★ from 3004 reviews, but shows at wp.org #24. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Menu Cart for WooCommerce 70K+ · 4.6★ (99) wp.org #1 2 Simple Shopping Cart 10K+ · 4.6★ (215) wp.org #3 1 too low 3 Ecwid by Lightspeed Ecommerce Shopping Cart 20K+ · 4.5★ (228) wp.org #2 1 too high 4 Translate WordPress with GTranslate 900K+ · 4.9★ (4962) wp.org #11 ↓2 7 too low 5 WP Menu Cart 8K+ · 4.8★ (23) wp.org #4 1 too high 6 MailPoet – Newsletters, Email Marketing, and Automation 500K+ · 4.4★ (1435) wp.org #8 ↓1 2 too low 7 Sunshine Photo Cart – Client Photo Gallery & Photo Proofing for Photographers 1K+ · 4.7★ (138) wp.org #7 ↑1 8 SEOPress – AI SEO Plugin & On-site SEO 300K+ · 4.8★ (1267) wp.org #21 ↑1 13 too low 9 LiteSpeed Cache 7M+ · 4.8★ (2778) wp.org #19 ↓1 10 too low 10 Polylang 900K+ · 4.7★ (3004) wp.org #24 14 too low 11 Autoptimize 800K+ · 4.7★ (1428) wp.org #23 ↑1 12 too low 12 Minimum Purchase Amount For Woo Cart – For WooCommerce 6K+ · 4.7★ (9) wp.org #6 6 too high 13 Payment Plugins for Stripe WooCommerce 100K+ · 4.8★ (303) wp.org #20 ↓1 7 too low 14 WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway 700K+ · 3.1★ (237) wp.org #9 ↑1 5 too high 15 CartPops – WooCommerce Side Cart, Cart Drawer & Cart Popup 4K+ · 4.2★ (26) wp.org #10 ↑1 5 too high 16 Hide Cart Functions 3K+ · 4.6★ (14) wp.org #14 ↓1 2 too high 17 WooCommerce PayPal Payments 800K+ · 2.9★ (583) wp.org #15 2 too high 18 Remove Cart Products 100+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #5 13 too high 19 Cart recovery for WordPress 100+ · 5.0★ (6) wp.org #22 ↓1 3 too low 20 Conditional Add to Cart for WooCommerce 600+ · 4.7★ (7) wp.org #17 ↓1 3 too high 21 ShopMagic Abandoned Cart Recovery for WooCommerce 2K+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #18 ↓1 3 too high 22 Mini Cart for WooCommerce – Side Cart & Fast Checkout 600+ · 3.6★ (5) wp.org #13 ↑1 9 too high 23 Share Cart for WooCommerce 300+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #16 ↓1 7 too high 24 Automatic Remove Cart Item 100+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #12 12 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.