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

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 “commentary”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 3 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 it throws errors on current PHP, whether the install base is organic or host-pushed, and its risk of being pulled.

Ranked above its merit

Super annotation shows at wp.org #17 but places #24 on merit, a gap of 7 places. Its 10+ installs carry it up the search order; its 5.0★ average from 1 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

merit plugin wp.org
1 B Blue Captcha 400+ · 4.7★ (15) wp.org #1 2 AnWP Football Leagues 700+ · 4.9★ (14) wp.org #2 3 Currency Converter Calculator 1K+ · 4.4★ (7) wp.org #3 4 Hypothesis 200+ · 4.9★ (7) wp.org #4 5 AnWP Sports Leagues – Basketball, Ice Hockey, Handball, Rugby & More 100+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #5 6 Website LLMs.txt 50K+ · 4.7★ (12) wp.org #24 ↓1 18 too low 7 Golf Scores 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #6 1 too high 8 Enduring Word Bible Commentary 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 9 Georg Kloster Bible Reader — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 1 too low 10 Better Commenting 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 3 too high 11 RSS Content Curator — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 ↓1 12 BigBad Deep eCommerce Insights — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #9 3 too high 13 Gattsuri PV Dashboard — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 1 too high 14 C CommentarySandbox — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↓2 1 too high 15 SEO Articles Publisher — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 ↓1 1 too high 16 Zesyn Islamic Toolkit — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↓1 1 too high 17 Blurbwing — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 1 too high 18 Podcast-Style Text to Speech – Hi, Moose 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↓1 19 Site Update Logger — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↓1 20 ClickPostify – Single Click Social Posting — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓1 21 A Aistore Bhagavad Gita — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 ↓1 22 TMX Quote Request Manager — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 ↓1 23 Post Formats for Block Themes — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↓1 24 Super annotation 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #17 ↓2 7 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.