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

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 plugins”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 2 of the top 20. 4 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

Better Commenting shows at wp.org #9 but places #13 on merit, a gap of 4 places. Its 10+ installs carry it up the search order; its 0.0★ average from 0 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 Website LLMs.txt 50K+ · 4.7★ (12) wp.org #11 ↓1 6 too low 6 AnWP Sports Leagues – Basketball, Ice Hockey, Handball, Rugby & More 100+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #5 1 too high 7 Enduring Word Bible Commentary 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #6 1 too high 8 Golf Scores 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #7 1 too high 9 Super annotation 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #8 1 too high 10 Georg Kloster Bible Reader — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 2 too low 11 BigBad Deep eCommerce Insights — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #10 ↑1 1 too high 12 RSS Content Curator — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↓1 1 too low 13 Better Commenting 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 4 too high 14 Gattsuri PV Dashboard — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 ↓1 15 Verse of the Day Widget for WP 30+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #24 9 too low 16 SEO Articles Publisher — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↓1 1 too high 17 Zesyn Islamic Toolkit — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↓1 1 too high 18 Blurbwing — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↓1 1 too high 19 Podcast-Style Text to Speech – Hi, Moose 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↓1 1 too high 20 ClickPostify – Single Click Social Posting — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 1 too high 21 Site Update Logger — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓2 1 too high 22 A Aistore Bhagavad Gita — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 ↓1 23 C CommentarySandbox — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 ↓1 2 too high 24 TMX Quote Request Manager — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↓1 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.