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

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 “cookbook”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 7 of the top 19. 2 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.

merit plugin wp.org
1 WP Recipe Maker 50K+ · 5.0★ (356) wp.org #2 1 too low 2 WPZOOM Addons for Elementor – Starter Templates & Widgets 20K+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #1 1 too high 3 WP Document Revisions 2K+ · 3.7★ (23) wp.org #4 1 too low 4 Schema Package – Structured Data & Rich Snippets Tool for SEO 200+ · 4.8★ (20) wp.org #7 3 too low 5 Create 6K+ · 4.3★ (25) wp.org #11 6 too low 6 Block Patterns for Food Bloggers 700+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #3 3 too high 7 eBook Crafter – Convert Posts to PDF eBooks, Ready to Print 100+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #5 2 too high 8 CuratorCrowd Recipe Box 10+ · 5.0★ (6) wp.org #10 ↓1 2 too low 9 Tasty Recipes Lite – WordPress Recipe Card Plugin with Built-In Recipe Schema 2K+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #6 3 too high 10 U USGS River Data 10+ · 4.5★ (4) wp.org #18 8 too low 11 Cook App — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 3 too high 12 Plugixa Recipe – Recipe Cards, Nutrition Facts, Reviews & Schema — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 ↑1 3 too high 13 Raptive Intelligence 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 ↑1 1 too high 14 D Disable Cookbook Ratings — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↓1 1 too high 15 Dynamic Connector Block — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 1 too high 16 Cptify – Custom Post Type, Fields & Layout Builder — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 1 too high 17 Pin Magic – Pin Creator for Pinterest — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 1 too high 18 R Recipe Schema 10+ · 4.5★ (2) wp.org #19 1 too low 19 Cookbook Hook Guide 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 2 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.