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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “customizable cart”

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 “customizable cart”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 11 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

Minimum Purchase Amount For Woo Cart – For WooCommerce shows at wp.org #7 but places #15 on merit, a gap of 8 places. Its 6K+ installs carry it up the search order; its 4.7★ average from 9 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

Buried gem

Premium Addons for Elementor – AI-Ready Elementor Addons, Widgets & Templates places #11 on merit, 4.9★ from 1680 reviews, but shows at wp.org #21. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Elementor Website Builder – more than just a page builder 10M+ · 4.5★ (7322) wp.org #2 1 too low 2 Modern Cart – WooCommerce Side Cart & Popup Cart 60K+ · 4.9★ (16) wp.org #1 1 too high 3 Sliding Cart for WooCommerce by FunnelKit – Skip Cart & Reach WooCommerce Checkout Faster 30K+ · 5.0★ (111) wp.org #3 4 Simple Shopping Cart 10K+ · 4.6★ (215) wp.org #5 1 too low 5 WPC Fly Cart for WooCommerce 10K+ · 4.7★ (61) wp.org #4 1 too high 6 Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets 1M+ · 4.9★ (4132) wp.org #10 ↓1 4 too low 7 Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce 20K+ · 4.1★ (84) wp.org #6 1 too high 8 Cart Popup for WooCommerce 9K+ · 4.4★ (70) wp.org #8 9 XT Floating Cart for WooCommerce 4K+ · 4.6★ (149) wp.org #12 ↓1 3 too low 10 MailPoet – Newsletters, Email Marketing, and Automation 500K+ · 4.4★ (1435) wp.org #18 8 too low 11 Premium Addons for Elementor – AI-Ready Elementor Addons, Widgets & Templates 600K+ · 4.9★ (1680) wp.org #21 ↓1 10 too low 12 FluentCart A New Era of eCommerce – Faster, Lighter, and Simpler 9K+ · 4.5★ (46) wp.org #9 ↑3 3 too high 13 Sunshine Photo Cart – Client Photo Gallery & Photo Proofing for Photographers 1K+ · 4.7★ (138) wp.org #16 3 too low 14 ElementsKit Elementor Addons – Advanced Widgets & Templates Addons for Elementor 1M+ · 4.9★ (2052) wp.org #24 10 too low 15 Minimum Purchase Amount For Woo Cart – For WooCommerce 6K+ · 4.7★ (9) wp.org #7 8 too high 16 Custom Add to Cart Button Label and Link for WooCommerce 2K+ · 4.6★ (27) wp.org #17 1 too low 17 WPC Added To Cart Notification for WooCommerce 3K+ · 4.9★ (9) wp.org #13 4 too high 18 Cart Lift – Abandoned Cart Recovery for WooCommerce and EDD 900+ · 4.8★ (9) wp.org #11 ↓1 7 too high 19 Hide Cart Functions 3K+ · 4.6★ (14) wp.org #20 ↓1 1 too low 20 Modal Fly Cart & AJAX Add to Cart for WooCommerce 2K+ · 3.5★ (11) wp.org #14 6 too high 21 Conditional Add to Cart for WooCommerce 600+ · 4.7★ (7) wp.org #23 ↓1 2 too low 22 ShapedCart – WooCommerce Side Cart, Mini Cart & Floating Cart 40+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #15 7 too high 23 Mini Cart for WooCommerce – Side Cart & Fast Checkout 600+ · 3.6★ (5) wp.org #19 ↓1 4 too high 24 Share Cart for WooCommerce 300+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #22 ↓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.