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

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 “climate”, 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 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 Say What? 40K+ · 4.3★ (92) wp.org #1 2 Location Weather – WordPress Weather Forecast, Air Quality & Weather Widget 10K+ · 4.5★ (103) wp.org #4 2 too low 3 Tree-Nation for WooCommerce 100+ · 3.8★ (5) wp.org #3 ↓1 4 ImmoWP Diagnostic DPE GES 40+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #2 ↑1 2 too high 5 ClimateClick: Climate Action for all 10+ · 4.6★ (10) wp.org #12 ↓2 7 too low 6 NoPayn Payments 80+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #5 1 too high 7 G Go Dark 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 8 Freeze Shipping Alert and Global Hardiness Zones and Frost Data — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #6 2 too high 9 FitCalc – Health Calculators & Wellness Tools 30+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 1 too high 10 payever Checkout – Composable Payment Gateway 800+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 1 too high 11 AreaIntelig Lite — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 ↓1 1 too high 12 Jawnie Green Claims Checker for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 1 too high 13 FloraSelector — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↓1 14 Green Cart Checkout — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 ↓1 15 BâtiClasse DPE GES — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↓1 16 Vaglio Asserzioni Ambientali — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↓1 17 CarbonGuru Embedded Merchant Offsetting — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↓1 18 Staufenwald for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↓1 19 GreenTrace Carbon Rating Badge and Reports — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↓1 20 ilGhera Contributo RAEE for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓1 21 Click A Tree — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 ↓1 22 One8 Weather Data Fields — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 ↓1 23 REAIGENT7 Chat — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↓1 24 GreenerWP 50+ · 5.0★ (1) 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.