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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “dialing codes”

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 “dialing codes”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 3 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 Order On Mobile for WooCommerce 2K+ · 4.9★ (66) wp.org #1 2 Campos Checkout Brasileiro para WooCommerce 5K+ · 4.9★ (45) wp.org #4 ↓1 2 too low 3 User Registration & Login – Magic Links & Email OTP Verification, Passkeys & 2FA, Cloudflare Turnstile, Google reCAPTCHA & Honeypot – HMDIA 50+ · 5.0★ (7) wp.org #2 1 too high 4 C Country Calling Codes — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #3 ↓1 1 too high 5 Click to Call or Chat Buttons 1K+ · 3.7★ (3) wp.org #6 ↓2 1 too low 6 Rento King – Car Rental System 20+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #8 ↓1 2 too low 7 CapiFlow – Conversions API (CAPI) Tracking for WooCommerce 20+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #12 ↓2 5 too low 8 NoticePulse — Notification Bar, Announcement Bar & Cookie Notice 50+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #5 3 too high 9 C Country Select & Phone Code for CF7 — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 ↓1 2 too high 10 StoreVoiceAI for WooCommerce 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 ↓1 1 too high 11 C CoreX Commerce Messaging – Order Notifications & Cart Recovery — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 ↓1 1 too high 12 Excitel – Click to call 20+ · 4.3★ (4) wp.org #17 ↓1 5 too low 13 Redkirin Ad Click Verification 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 2 too high 14 CMLS – Customer Match List for Google Ads & Meta Ads 30+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↓1 1 too high 15 Yatoon Restaurant Menu & Online Ordering — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 ↓1 1 too high 16 DigitalMakers Phone Mask with Flags for Contact Form 7 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 1 too high 17 E ElyonPay for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↓2 1 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.