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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “copy order”

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 “copy order”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 13 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

Live Copy Paste for Elementor – Cross Domain Copy Paste & Page Duplicator shows at wp.org #5 but places #20 on merit, a gap of 15 places. Its 6K+ installs carry it up the search order; its 4.3★ average from 3 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

Buried gem

UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Migration Plugin places #11 on merit, 4.8★ from 8709 reviews, but shows at wp.org #23. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Simple Custom Post Order 300K+ · 4.8★ (588) wp.org #1 2 Copy Anything to Clipboard for WordPress – Copy Button, Copy Text & Copy Code 10K+ · 4.5★ (36) wp.org #2 ↑1 3 Secure Copy Content Protection and Content Locking 20K+ · 4.3★ (62) wp.org #3 ↓1 4 Duplicator – Backups & Migration Plugin – Cloud Backups, Scheduled Backups, & More 1M+ · 4.9★ (4940) wp.org #7 ↓1 3 too low 5 LiteSpeed Cache 7M+ · 4.8★ (2778) wp.org #9 ↓1 4 too low 6 BrikPanel: WooCommerce Dashboard & Analytics, Abandoned Cart Recovery, Order Export, Inventory Management & Bulk Editor 1K+ · 5.0★ (55) wp.org #6 7 WP STAGING – Backups & Restore, Migration & Clone Plugin – Cloud Backups, Scheduled Backups 100K+ · 4.8★ (2470) wp.org #15 8 too low 8 WP Sort Order 6K+ · 4.5★ (17) wp.org #4 4 too high 9 PDF Invoices & Packing Slips for WooCommerce 300K+ · 5.0★ (1865) wp.org #16 ↓2 7 too low 10 Autocomplete WooCommerce Orders 30K+ · 4.6★ (137) wp.org #11 ↓2 1 too low 11 UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Migration Plugin 4M+ · 4.8★ (8709) wp.org #23 ↓1 12 too low 12 Jetpack – AI Agents & MCP, Security, Backup & Analytics 3M+ · 3.7★ (2408) wp.org #22 10 too low 13 Order Splitter for WooCommerce 300+ · 4.7★ (70) wp.org #19 6 too low 14 Supplier Order Email 300+ · 4.9★ (14) wp.org #12 ↓2 2 too high 15 Phone Orders for WooCommerce 1K+ · 5.0★ (32) wp.org #21 ↑1 6 too low 16 Scheduled & Automatic Order Status Controller for WooCommerce 2K+ · 5.0★ (11) wp.org #13 3 too high 17 Duplicate Post – duplicate pages, copy content, clone posts 5K+ · 4.7★ (7) wp.org #8 ↑11 9 too high 18 Easy Duplicate Woo Order 1K+ · 4.7★ (21) wp.org #18 ↑1 19 WP All Export – Order Export for WooCommerce 3K+ · 3.9★ (8) wp.org #10 ↑6 9 too high 20 Live Copy Paste for Elementor – Cross Domain Copy Paste & Page Duplicator 6K+ · 4.3★ (3) wp.org #5 15 too high 21 Ultimate Order Combination 300+ · 3.8★ (9) wp.org #17 ↓1 4 too high 22 Clone / Duplicate Orders for WooCommerce 1K+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #14 ↓2 8 too high 23 Quick Copy – Duplicate Posts & Pages 1K+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #20 ↑2 3 too high 24 WPC Copy Billing Address for WooCommerce 200+ · 3.0★ (2) wp.org #24

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.