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

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 “cra”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 0 of the top 17.

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 WP Multilang – Translation and Multilingual Plugin 10K+ · 4.3★ (100) wp.org #1 2 Polski for WooCommerce 60+ · 4.8★ (10) wp.org #3 ↑12 1 too low 3 CRA Vuln Notify 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #2 1 too high 4 Vulnerability Monitor for the EU Cyber Resilience Act 50+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #5 ↓1 1 too low 5 Erdo CRA Compliance – EU Cyber Resilience Act, GDPR & NIS2 Scanner for WordPress — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #4 ↓1 1 too high 6 Dragon Compliance – CRA & NIS2 Compliance, SBOM Export & Vulnerability Scanner — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #6 ↓1 7 Proofwright — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 ↓1 8 C CRAGuard Compliance Portal for the EU Cyber Resilience Act — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 ↓1 9 Nubivio Security Headers, security.txt & NIS2 Compliance for Healthcare — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 ↓1 2 too low 10 Lugath Translate — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #9 1 too high 11 Resilience Compliance Manager — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 ↓1 1 too low 12 Shoplex – EU Compliance for WooCommerce — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #10 ↑3 2 too high 13 HealthSpark Site Health Dashboard — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↓1 14 Donation Router for GiveWP & PayPal – Route Donations by Donor Country — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 15 Merqivio EU Compliance — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↑1 1 too low 16 Merqivio Checked — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↑1 1 too low 17 Bastora Security Audit 50+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #15 ↑1 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.