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

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 “cronjob”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 10 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 it throws errors on current PHP, whether the install base is organic or host-pushed, and its risk of being pulled.

Ranked above its merit

Cron Setup and Monitor – Get URL Cron shows at wp.org #2 but places #8 on merit, a gap of 6 places. Its 1K+ installs carry it up the search order; its 3.0★ average from 2 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Disable All WordPress Updates 20K+ · 4.8★ (69) wp.org #1 2 Multiple Post Passwords 2K+ · 5.0★ (11) wp.org #3 1 too low 3 Swift Performance Lite 6K+ · 3.6★ (125) wp.org #5 ↑1 2 too low 4 Affiliate Super Assistent 1K+ · 4.6★ (36) wp.org #8 4 too low 5 A Auto Prune Posts 1K+ · 4.2★ (10) wp.org #6 ↓1 1 too low 6 W Warm Cache 300+ · 4.3★ (19) wp.org #13 ↓1 7 too low 7 Happy Coders OTP Login for WooCommerce 30+ · 5.0★ (7) wp.org #12 ↑1 5 too low 8 Cron Setup and Monitor – Get URL Cron 1K+ · 3.0★ (2) wp.org #2 6 too high 9 Mass Email To Users 800+ · 3.1★ (8) wp.org #9 10 FastCron – Run WP Cron for free 100+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #4 6 too high 11 MyFast Login Guard – Login Protection & Server Info 30+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #11 12 Cache control by Cacholong 500+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 5 too high 13 Mail Control – Email Customizer, SMTP Deliverability, logging, open and click Tracking 60+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #17 ↓1 4 too low 14 Be POPIA Compliant 100+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #20 ↓1 6 too low 15 Cron Tasks Viewer 200+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #10 5 too high 16 Invoices Online Integration 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↑2 1 too high 17 Cronjob.de – Reliable Cron — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 1 too high 18 Kraan Auto SEO Keyphrase 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↑3 19 CloudAware Security Audit — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #14 ↑1 5 too high 20 W WpLoadGraph – Log and display server load of your WP site 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↓1 1 too high 21 J Jobcards Online Integration — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 ↓1 22 Kraan Media SEO & AI Meta Filler — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 23 Klarsmith Ops Kit — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↓1 24 AATI WP Finetuning 30+ · 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.