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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “cryptocurrency payment”

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 “cryptocurrency payment”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 9 of the top 20. 4 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.

Ranked above its merit

BlockBee Cryptocurrency Payment Gateway shows at wp.org #8 but places #21 on merit, a gap of 13 places. Its 40+ 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 Cryptocurrency Widgets – Price Ticker & Coins List 6K+ · 4.8★ (191) wp.org #3 2 too low 2 Cryptocurrency Payment Gateway 400+ · 4.6★ (11) wp.org #1 1 too high 3 Cryptocurrency Widgets For Elementor 1K+ · 4.9★ (15) wp.org #5 2 too low 4 Pay With MetaMask For WooCommerce – Cryptocurrency Payment Gateway 400+ · 4.8★ (17) wp.org #4 5 C Cryptocurrency Payment Gateway for WooCommerce 200+ · 3.4★ (29) wp.org #7 2 too low 6 ABC Crypto Checkout 1K+ · 4.9★ (30) wp.org #12 6 too low 7 Cryptocurrency Payment Gateway for WordPress & WooCommerce by CryptoPay 70+ · 4.3★ (6) wp.org #9 2 too low 8 Live Summary for Gravity Forms 1K+ · 5.0★ (18) wp.org #24 16 too low 9 Bitcoin Payments – Blockonomics 2K+ · 4.5★ (35) wp.org #19 10 too low 10 Multi CryptoCurrency Payments 300+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #2 8 too high 11 NOWPayments for WooCommerce – Crypto Payment Gateway 3K+ · 4.1★ (16) wp.org #11 12 CryptAPI Payment Gateway for WooCommerce 400+ · 3.7★ (9) wp.org #10 2 too high 13 Cryptocurrency Product for WooCommerce 20+ · 4.8★ (11) wp.org #17 ↑1 4 too low 14 MyCryptoCheckout – Bitcoin, Ethereum, and 100+ altcoins for WooCommerce 8K+ · 4.3★ (49) wp.org #22 8 too low 15 OxaPay Crypto Payment Gateway: Accept Bitcoin Payments 200+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #13 2 too high 16 Direct Payments for WooCommerce – Bank Transfer, Mobile Money, Crypto and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Payments 800+ · 5.0★ (10) wp.org #23 7 too low 17 Crypto Payment Gateway with Instant Payouts 1K+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #6 11 too high 18 Corexa crypto payment 30+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #14 4 too high 19 Payid19 Crypto Payment Gateway 50+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #20 1 too low 20 Accept Cryptocurrencies with Plisio 1K+ · 3.3★ (3) wp.org #18 ↓1 2 too high 21 BlockBee Cryptocurrency Payment Gateway 40+ · 3.0★ (2) wp.org #8 13 too high 22 Cryptocurrency Payments & Donations with Copperx 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #15 7 too high 23 Card2Crypto Global Payment Gateway 200+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #16 7 too high 24 Pagadito Payment Gateway for WooCommerce 200+ · 3.0★ (2) wp.org #21 3 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.