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

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

merit plugin wp.org
1 LLMs.txt and LLMs-Full.txt Generator 4K+ · 5.0★ (7) wp.org #1 2 Export Products, Orders & Customers for WooCommerce 2K+ · 4.6★ (14) wp.org #2 3 Shelf Planner Inventory Management for WooCommerce 100+ · 4.7★ (16) wp.org #3 ↓1 4 Stock Ticker 2K+ · 4.4★ (21) wp.org #4 ↓1 5 Bot Traffic Shield – Block Bad Bots and Stop AI Bots Crawlers 900+ · 5.0★ (5) wp.org #5 ↓1 6 Ultimate 410 Gone Status Code 6K+ · 4.4★ (8) wp.org #7 ↓1 1 too low 7 Cookies, Terms & Conditions Consent Log 100+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #6 ↓1 1 too high 8 Bulk Export Import Images SEO Attributes 20+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #9 1 too low 9 Bizuno Accounting – ERP/Accounting/CRM (for WordPress) 10+ · 4.5★ (4) wp.org #11 ↓4 2 too low 10 WEBO MCP 40+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 11 Product Completion Emails for WooCommerce 70+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #8 3 too high 12 Webzone Config Notes 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 ↓3 13 Viralmaisuriyaa Broken Link Scanner — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↓2 2 too low 14 API Isarud Tüm Pazar Yerleri Ticaret Entegrasyonu 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #13 ↑1 1 too high 15 MOP AI Indexer – LLMs.txt and LLMs-Full.txt SEO 30+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↓6 2 too low 16 Volant B2B Manager Suite for WooCommerce — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #14 ↓2 2 too high 17 Lead Generation Form – Form Builder, Contact Form, Survey & Inquiry Forms 600+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓5 3 too low 18 Init User Engine – Gamified, Fast, Frontend-First 30+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #16 ↑1 2 too high 19 Frontierline Forms – Confirmation & Multi-Step for Contact Form 7 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 2 too low 20 Employee Verification & Document Authentication 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #18 ↓2 2 too high 21 Leadite 100+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24 ↓2 3 too low 22 Chat App Brasil 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #19 ↓1 3 too high 23 Doc Mitayo — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #22 ↓3 1 too high 24 EntryVault for Contact Form 7 — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #23 ↓3 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.