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

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 “bash”, 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 the install base is organic or host-pushed, and its risk of being pulled.

merit plugin wp.org
1 WPTerm 4K+ · 5.0★ (15) wp.org #1 2 Code Block Pro – Beautiful Syntax Highlighting 10K+ · 4.8★ (50) wp.org #4 ↑2 2 too low 3 Static Site Exporter 400+ · 3.5★ (12) wp.org #2 1 too high 4 CodeColorer 1K+ · 4.9★ (11) wp.org #7 3 too low 5 Stitch Express 600+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #3 2 too high 6 Birthday Rewards for WooCommerce – NeoLite Birthday Bash 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #5 1 too high 7 Vaaky Highlighter — Syntax Highlighter, Code Blocks, Line Numbers for Gutenberg 10+ · 4.5★ (2) wp.org #9 2 too low 8 REST API blocks 200+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #6 ↓2 2 too high 9 Fullworks Active Users Monitor 30+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 1 too high 10 Paypercut Payments for WooCommerce 100+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 11 Simple Markdown 80+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 12 MarkBlocks – Markdown for Elementor 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 ↑2 13 DMValdez Clean Post Toolkit 30+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↑4 14 Easy Syntax Highlighter 30+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 ↓2 15 LumiCode Syntax Highlighter 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↑1 3 too low 16 iG:Syntax Hiliter 30+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #15 1 too high 17 Magic Extra Field Light — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 3 too low 18 Coywolf Code Block Enhancer — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #16 2 too high 19 WPRobo DocuMerge Lite 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 2 too low 20 Quantum Universal Copy — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #17 ↓4 3 too high 21 Y Youbou Code Block — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 1 too low 22 Quick Admin Launcher 10+ · 4.0★ (1) wp.org #19 ↓1 3 too high 23 Kodosvet Code Block — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24 ↓2 1 too low 24 Solr Search for WordPress 100+ · 4.0★ (2) wp.org #23 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.