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

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 “blended”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 3 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 LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses 70K+ · 4.3★ (597) wp.org #1 2 Termin-Kalender 500+ · 4.2★ (9) wp.org #2 3 AI Product Search for WooCommerce – Motive Commerce Search 300+ · 4.6★ (10) wp.org #3 4 Acadlix LMS – AI Quiz Maker, Online Exam & Course Plugin for WordPress 40+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #5 1 too low 5 WFY24 Weather Widget 40+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #4 ↑7 1 too high 6 Janitorix Media Audit — · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #9 3 too low 7 ClassPress – Classroom & School Management Plugin for WordPress 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #6 ↓2 1 too high 8 Eventin Addon for TutorLMS 30+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 ↓1 1 too high 9 Agentimus – AI SEO, llms.txt & MCP for AI Agents 10+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #12 ↓4 3 too low 10 MyAuthorityIQ 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 ↓1 2 too high 11 BlooTrue Reviews Widget — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 1 too high 12 Christmas Snow – Festive Snowfall Effect 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↑10 1 too low 13 OneVoicer — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 ↓1 1 too low 14 Sikshya LMS – LMS Course Builder, Online Courses & eLearning 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #11 ↑1 3 too high 15 PublisherKits SocialPromoter 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↓1 16 RiTriever — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↓1 17 GTS Upload Limit Manager — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↓1 18 ViewWear AI Try-on — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 19 SEOMedic Simple Grammar Checker — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↓2 20 Spacery – Responsive Spacing and Spacer Block — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓2 21 Coupon Audit and Analytics for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 ↓2 22 Profit Margin Reports for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 ↓1 23 Ariadne Related Posts – Smart Content Recommendations — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↓3 24 Product Recommendations for WooCommerce – Upsells, Cross-sells, Related Products & Frequently Bought Together — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24 ↓2

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.