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

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 “cook”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 9 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

Food Recipes shows at wp.org #16 but places #22 on merit, a gap of 6 places. Its — 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.

Buried gem

WP Delicious – Recipe Plugin for Food Bloggers (formerly Delicious Recipes) places #3 on merit, 4.9★ from 72 reviews, but shows at wp.org #7. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Recipe Card Blocks Lite 10K+ · 4.8★ (20) wp.org #1 2 Cooked – Recipe Management 3K+ · 3.9★ (90) wp.org #2 3 WP Delicious – Recipe Plugin for Food Bloggers (formerly Delicious Recipes) 4K+ · 4.9★ (72) wp.org #7 4 too low 4 Snow Monkey Blocks 30K+ · 4.4★ (7) wp.org #3 1 too high 5 Disable User Password Reset Admin Notifications 1K+ · 5.0★ (5) wp.org #6 1 too low 6 Tasty Recipes Lite – WordPress Recipe Card Plugin with Built-In Recipe Schema 2K+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #4 2 too high 7 FooSales – Point of Sale (POS) for WooCommerce 600+ · 3.2★ (13) wp.org #10 ↓1 3 too low 8 CuratorCrowd Recipe Box 10+ · 5.0★ (6) wp.org #22 ↓1 14 too low 9 Scrumptious – Recipe Cards 400+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #5 4 too high 10 Auto scroll for reading 80+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #21 ↓1 11 too low 11 Cook App — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 3 too high 12 Schema Blocks 20+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #14 ↓1 2 too low 13 WakeChef Cook Mode — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 4 too high 14 Bright Addons for Elementor 30+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #15 1 too low 15 Dashboard Server Info 100+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 ↓1 4 too high 16 Delisho – Recipe Widgets and Blocks 1K+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 ↓1 4 too high 17 Capturly 100+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #13 ↓1 4 too high 18 AIparently – AI Transparency for WordPress — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↓1 1 too high 19 LWN Recipe — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↓1 1 too high 20 NexIndex – Auto Table of Contents & SEO Links — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↓1 1 too high 21 Citable GEO Schema – Make Your Website AI Citable 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓1 1 too high 22 Food Recipes — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #16 ↓2 6 too high 23 Plugixa Recipe – Recipe Cards, Nutrition Facts, Reviews & Schema — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↓1 24 O One More Bite — · 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.