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

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 “contactpage”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 3 of the top 20. 1 plugin is 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 the install base is organic or host-pushed, and its risk of being pulled.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Schema 30K+ · 4.3★ (221) wp.org #2 ↑1 1 too low 2 CodingBunny LLMs.txt Generator 100+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #1 1 too high 3 AEOmatic – AEO for AI Search: llms.txt, Schema & AI Crawler Check 20+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #3 ↑2 4 Dennis GEO – AI Visibility 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #4 5 Citable GEO Schema – Make Your Website AI Citable 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #5 ↑1 6 DPLS Schema AI — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #6 7 ShadowSync SEO — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 8 Voidek Auto Schema Generator – JSON-LD Structured Data for SEO & AI Search 10+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #18 ↓2 10 too low 9 MarkupLoom – JSON-LD Manager — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 1 too high 10 GrowthLife Blog Scheduler & Schema — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 1 too high 11 Holographic Lightweight SEO — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 1 too high 12 Schema & Structured Data Suite: Rich Snippets Made Simple — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 1 too high 13 W WebTrendSEO Structured Data Editor — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 1 too high 14 Onlinefotka Schema Markup — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↓1 1 too high 15 DMValdez Semantic Engine — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 ↓1 1 too high 16 Pewit AI Schema Builder — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 1 too high 17 Brightery Search Optimization Toolkit — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↓2 1 too high 18 Guru SEO AI — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 1 too high 19 ABDS SEO — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 ↓2 2 too low 20 AI Schema Gen – AI Readiness Score, Schema Markup & Structured Data for AI Search — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 ↓2 2 too low 21 ARN Smart Site Utilities for Elementor — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↓8 2 too low 22 Connect Claude & ChatGPT to WordPress (MCP) – AI SEO + AEO Score 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #19 ↓2 3 too high 23 Really Rich Results – JSON-LD Structured Data (Google Rich Results) 20+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #20 ↓2 3 too high 24 Simple metadata 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24 ↓3

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.