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

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 translation”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 10 of the top 20. 2 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

Universally – AI Translation & Multilingual SEO: Translate Your Site into 110+ Languages shows at wp.org #9 but places #22 on merit, a gap of 13 places. Its 30K+ installs carry it up the search order; its 5.0★ average from 1 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

Buried gem

Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings places #9 on merit, 4.8★ from 7519 reviews, but shows at wp.org #20. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation 400K+ · 4.7★ (1667) wp.org #1 2 Translate WordPress with GTranslate 900K+ · 4.9★ (4962) wp.org #2 3 Translate WordPress with Weglot 2.0 – Multilingual AI Translation 50K+ · 4.8★ (1940) wp.org #3 4 LocoAI – Auto Translate for Loco Translate 70K+ · 4.9★ (642) wp.org #6 2 too low 5 Translate and boost SEO – Automatic AI translation – wpLingua 2K+ · 4.9★ (33) wp.org #4 1 too high 6 Loco Translate 1M+ · 4.8★ (453) wp.org #7 ↑1 1 too low 7 AI Translation For TranslatePress 10K+ · 4.8★ (69) wp.org #5 2 too high 8 UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Migration Plugin 4M+ · 4.8★ (8706) wp.org #17 ↓3 9 too low 9 Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings 4M+ · 4.8★ (7519) wp.org #20 ↓2 11 too low 10 AutoPoly – AI Translation For Polylang 5K+ · 4.6★ (30) wp.org #8 ↓1 2 too high 11 Table of Contents Plus – Automatic Table of Contents for Posts & Pages 200K+ · 4.5★ (187) wp.org #15 4 too low 12 Polylang 900K+ · 4.7★ (3004) wp.org #23 ↑1 11 too low 13 Automatic YouTube Gallery – Embed Auto-Updating YouTube Video Galleries, Feeds, Playlists & Channels 9K+ · 4.8★ (31) wp.org #11 2 too high 14 Linguise – AI Automatic Multilingual Translation 1K+ · 4.9★ (31) wp.org #10 ↓1 4 too high 15 Automatic Domain Changer 10K+ · 4.3★ (29) wp.org #13 2 too high 16 Toolkit for Polylang – Translation Inspector & Duplicate Content 10K+ · 4.5★ (33) wp.org #21 5 too low 17 AutoMLP – AI Translation for WPML 100+ · 5.0★ (6) wp.org #12 5 too high 18 Ray Enterprise Translation 7K+ · 2.6★ (48) wp.org #14 4 too high 19 Linguator – AI Auto Translate & Create Multilingual Sites 3K+ · 4.6★ (20) wp.org #22 3 too low 20 LATW AI Translation for WPML 100+ · 5.0★ (5) wp.org #24 ↓4 4 too low 21 WEB-Translation – eTranslation Multilingual 400+ · 3.7★ (7) wp.org #16 ↑3 5 too high 22 Universally – AI Translation & Multilingual SEO: Translate Your Site into 110+ Languages 30K+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #9 ↑1 13 too high 23 Automatic Multilingual AI Translation by Autoglot 100+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #18 ↓2 5 too high 24 A Automatic Cache Flusher for W3 Total Cache 4K+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #19 ↓2 5 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.