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

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 “bibtex”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 4 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 the install base is organic or host-pushed, and its risk of being pulled.

merit plugin wp.org
1 teachPress 2K+ · 4.8★ (25) wp.org #1 2 Code Block Pro – Beautiful Syntax Highlighting 10K+ · 4.8★ (50) wp.org #2 3 CodeColorer 1K+ · 4.9★ (11) wp.org #4 1 too low 4 LaTeX2HTML 200+ · 4.8★ (9) wp.org #3 1 too high 5 Academic Blogger's Toolkit 300+ · 4.3★ (28) wp.org #17 ↓1 12 too low 6 Reference Manager for WordPress with Footnotes, Citations, Bibliographies, Tooltips and Glossary 60+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #8 ↓1 2 too low 7 CitePress – Automatic Citation Generator 50+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #6 1 too high 8 TheLaTeXLab – Citations & Bibliography 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #5 3 too high 9 Citrus 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 ↓1 10 Cite This Article – Author Box & Citation 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #7 ↑3 3 too high 11 Borges Bibliography Builder 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 ↑1 1 too high 12 Publiton – Auto Publication Updater 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 ↑3 1 too high 13 D DOI Creator 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 ↓3 1 too high 14 Serapeum Multi-Catalog Bibliographic Search — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↓1 1 too high 15 AcademicCrew — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 ↓1 1 too high 16 DiFlowRin Bibliography Checker — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 1 too high 17 WebKew WP References and Citations 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↓1 1 too high 18 A academa — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↓1 19 B bib3html 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓1 1 too low 20 W wpCiteULike 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 ↓1 2 too low 21 S SyHi 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↓1 2 too low 22 K Kblog Metadata 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #19 ↓1 3 too high 23 W WP Academic Publications 60+ · 3.0★ (2) wp.org #21 ↓1 2 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.