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

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 “bale”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 5 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 Melalweb Pay with Bale for WooCommerce 40+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #1 2 JAY Login & Register 100+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #5 ↓1 3 too low 3 ILACHAT – AI Chatbot & Live Chat 200+ · 4.7★ (3) wp.org #6 3 too low 4 KafiChat Lite 60+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #2 2 too high 5 ChatPay Gateway for Bale 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #3 2 too high 6 CS-Login | ورود پیامکی، گوگل، ووکامرس، LearnDash و OTP 400+ · 5.0★ (5) wp.org #12 ↓5 6 too low 7 Hamidreza Order Notifier 20+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #4 ↑1 3 too high 8 Hamid Pulse Notifications for Telegram and Bale 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 ↑2 9 Yektabot 60+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 ↓1 10 ForooshNegar – Advanced Sales Reports 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #7 ↓1 3 too high 11 Melalweb Notifications for Gravity Forms and Bale — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 1 too high 12 Card to Card for WooCommerce – WebDide Shetab 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 ↓2 1 too high 13 CanalYar Channel Posts for Telegram, Bale and Rubika — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↓2 14 MLC Live Chat — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 ↓2 15 Mesora – Live Chat & Multi-Channel Support — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↓2 16 Tiamis – AI Live Chat — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↓2 17 Pixel Share Gate — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↓2 18 Nyxify – Shop Bots for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 19 IranCheck – ایران‌چک — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↓3 20 LinkPey — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓3 21 DeepFA AI — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 ↓3 22 PilotLane Social Catalog Sync for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 23 Premium Order Manager for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↓4 24 E Entesharyar – WordPress Social Sharing and Telegram Publishing — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24 ↓4

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.