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

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 “cjk”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 1 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 signals wp.org

PDF Invoices & Packing Slips for WooCommerce 300K+ · 5.0★ (1865) wp.org #1 2

DK PDF – WordPress PDF Generator 3K+ · 4.5★ (44) wp.org #2 3

EasyFonts – Host Google Fonts Locally, Fast & Auto-Optimize, GDPR Compliant 1K+ · 5.0★ (6) thin reviews wp.org #3 4

TNC FlipBook 3D – PDF Flipbook, 3D Flipbook, PDF Viewer, PDF Embedder 400+ · 5.0★ (2) thin reviews wp.org #5 1 too low 5

Export Orders for WooCommerce – AI & MCP for Claude and ChatGPT 500+ · 3.7★ (6) thin reviews wp.org #6 ↑1 1 too low 6

MinuteRead – Reading Time for Posts 20+ · 5.0★ (1) thin reviews wp.org #4 2 too high 7

Order Summary PDF for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #7 8

SchemaSense – Smart Structured Data 300+ · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #8 9

LibraX Invoice 10+ · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #10 1 too low 10

Answer Engine Optimization 100+ · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #11 1 too low 11

Press Review — · 5.0★ (1) thin reviews wp.org #9 2 too high 12 A Axismundi Japanese Font Provider — · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #12 ↓1 13 A Axismundi Korean Font Provider — · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #14 ↓1 1 too low 14

WebBiz Toolkit — · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #15 ↓1 1 too low 15

Fattami Reading Time — · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #16 ↓1 1 too low 16

Nuvora Reading Time & Progress Bar — · 5.0★ (1) thin reviews wp.org #13 ↓1 3 too high 17

Softlinkster Semantic Search — · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #17 ↓1 18

KCITService – AI Site Beacon — · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #18 ↓1 19

NexVibe Self-Hosted Font Manager — · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #19 ↓1 20

PufferPDF — · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #20 ↓1 21

LimeHippo PDF Catalog — · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #21 22

PrismSearch — · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #22 ↓2 23

Brande Simple Translation — · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #23 ↓2 24

SpamLens: Jev AI Spam Protection for Comments and Contact Form 7 — · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #24 ↓1

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.