Plugin Pulse Beta
← Rankings

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

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 “dataviews”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 18 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

Modern Hotel Booking — Direct Booking Engine, Availability Calendar & Vacation Rental PMS shows at wp.org #5 but places #19 on merit, a gap of 14 places. Its 10+ installs carry it up the search order; its 4.0★ average from 2 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

Buried gem

SureCart – Ecommerce Made Easy For Selling Physical Products, Digital Downloads, Subscriptions, Donations, & Payments places #4 on merit, 4.8★ from 289 reviews, but shows at wp.org #18. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 SEOPress – AI SEO Plugin & On-site SEO 300K+ · 4.8★ (1267) wp.org #1 2 Pattern Wrangler – Manage Block Patterns and Pattern Categories 400+ · 5.0★ (5) wp.org #2 3 WP Rollback – Rollback Plugins and Themes 200K+ · 4.9★ (215) wp.org #14 11 too low 4 SureCart – Ecommerce Made Easy For Selling Physical Products, Digital Downloads, Subscriptions, Donations, & Payments 80K+ · 4.8★ (289) wp.org #18 14 too low 5 WooPayments: Integrated WooCommerce Payments 800K+ · 3.4★ (177) wp.org #8 3 too low 6 LabelGrid Tools 50+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #3 3 too high 7 AI 60K+ · 4.2★ (10) wp.org #12 5 too low 8 Modern Fields, Custom Fields for Gutenberg 40+ · 5.0★ (11) wp.org #20 12 too low 9 Personio Integration Light 200+ · 4.9★ (7) wp.org #15 6 too low 10 StoreGrowth – Upsell, BOGO, Quick View, Direct Checkout & Side Cart for WooCommerce 2K+ · 5.0★ (7) wp.org #19 9 too low 11 Devsh Admin Compatibility for DataViews — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #4 7 too high 12 Wedding RSVP – Wedding Guest List, Meal Choices & RSVP Tracker 100+ · 5.0★ (5) wp.org #17 5 too low 13 Search Console 2K+ · 4.5★ (8) wp.org #21 8 too low 14 Aculect Icon Library 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #6 8 too high 15 Contact form builder for Gutenberg – Formello 80+ · 5.0★ (5) wp.org #23 8 too low 16 Beardo Multisite Activation Console — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 9 too high 17 BlaBlaBlocks Popup — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 8 too high 18 Champlin Pre-Flight Audit — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 8 too high 19 Modern Hotel Booking — Direct Booking Engine, Availability Calendar & Vacation Rental PMS 10+ · 4.0★ (2) wp.org #5 14 too high 20 The Bonnie Situation – Contact Form 7 Database & Auto-Delete — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 9 too high 21 Eizport — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 8 too high 22 Play Audio Once 10+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #22 23 AIutoma – The AIO Autonomous AI Assistant — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 7 too high 24 Ndizi Project Management 10+ · 3.5★ (4) 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.