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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “commodity price”

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 “commodity price”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 6 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.

Ranked above its merit

Share Link shows at wp.org #1 but places #5 on merit, a gap of 4 places. Its 100+ 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 Crypto Converter ⚡ Widget 1K+ · 4.6★ (24) wp.org #3 2 too low 2 Stock Market Ticker 2K+ · 3.7★ (15) wp.org #4 2 too low 3 Importify – AI Dropshipping for WooCommerce 1K+ · 4.5★ (27) wp.org #8 5 too low 4 Stock Market Overview 1K+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #2 2 too high 5 Share Link 100+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #1 4 too high 6 Stock Ticker 2K+ · 4.4★ (21) wp.org #11 5 too low 7 Stock Quotes List 500+ · 4.4★ (7) wp.org #6 1 too high 8 Stockdio Historical Chart 800+ · 3.9★ (7) wp.org #5 3 too high 9 Stock Market News 400+ · 3.7★ (3) wp.org #7 2 too high 10 Fraktjakt WooCommerce Shipping 300+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #17 7 too low 11 Vunelix Financial Widgets – Cryptocurrency, Stock Ticker & Forex 20+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #10 1 too high 12 DaazMarkets — Global Market Prices 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 3 too high 13 Search URL Beautifier 100+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 1 too high 14 Valor Pay 200+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 1 too high 15 Waveleta – Crypto Price Ticker, Charts & Currency Converter — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 1 too high 16 Personal Finance Manager – PN — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 1 too high 17 S SmartMoney77 Financial Calculators 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 1 too high 18 MRN Gold & Currency Pricing for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 19 Holio Shipping 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 20 Sure As Ship for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 21 VAT Right – EU VAT & OSS for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 22 Vitxi Converse – Intelligent AI chatbot for Social Media — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 ↓1 23 AcconsentoBot — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↓1 24 Sky SEO – SEO Bulk Editor & Automation, GEO, AI internal Linking, LLM.txt, Schema & More 40+ · 0.0★ (0) 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.