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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “disable 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 “disable cart”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 9 of the top 20. 6 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

Minimum Purchase Amount For Woo Cart – For WooCommerce shows at wp.org #10 but places #18 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

XT Floating Cart for WooCommerce places #12 on merit, 4.6★ from 149 reviews, but shows at wp.org #19. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce – Recover Lost Sales with Automated Emails 300K+ · 4.8★ (625) wp.org #1 ↑2 2 Side Cart Woocommerce | Woocommerce Cart 70K+ · 4.9★ (453) wp.org #2 ↓1 3 WooCommerce 7M+ · 4.5★ (4833) wp.org #4 1 too low 4 Simple Shopping Cart 10K+ · 4.6★ (215) wp.org #8 ↑1 4 too low 5 Sliding Cart for WooCommerce by FunnelKit – Skip Cart & Reach WooCommerce Checkout Faster 30K+ · 5.0★ (111) wp.org #5 ↑2 6 Modern Cart – WooCommerce Side Cart & Popup Cart 60K+ · 4.9★ (16) wp.org #3 ↓1 3 too high 7 Disable Cart Fragments by Optimocha 10K+ · 4.9★ (16) wp.org #6 ↓1 1 too high 8 Ajax add to cart for WooCommerce 10K+ · 4.7★ (78) wp.org #11 3 too low 9 WPC Fly Cart for WooCommerce 10K+ · 4.7★ (61) wp.org #7 ↑1 2 too high 10 Disable Bloat for WordPress & WooCommerce 10K+ · 4.8★ (100) wp.org #14 ↓1 4 too low 11 BrikPanel: WooCommerce Dashboard & Analytics, Abandoned Cart Recovery, Order Export, Inventory Management & Bulk Editor 1K+ · 5.0★ (55) wp.org #9 ↑3 2 too high 12 XT Floating Cart for WooCommerce 4K+ · 4.6★ (149) wp.org #19 ↓1 7 too low 13 FluentCart A New Era of eCommerce – Faster, Lighter, and Simpler 9K+ · 4.5★ (46) wp.org #13 ↑9 14 Add to Cart Redirect for WooCommerce 6K+ · 4.9★ (101) wp.org #17 ↓1 3 too low 15 Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce 20K+ · 4.1★ (85) wp.org #12 ↓6 3 too high 16 Cart PDF for WooCommerce 1K+ · 5.0★ (26) wp.org #18 ↓1 2 too low 17 Cart Popup for WooCommerce 9K+ · 4.4★ (70) wp.org #15 ↓1 2 too high 18 Minimum Purchase Amount For Woo Cart – For WooCommerce 6K+ · 4.7★ (9) wp.org #10 8 too high 19 Cart Notices for WooCommerce 2K+ · 5.0★ (41) wp.org #20 1 too low 20 PiWeb Disable payment method / Partial payment for WooCommerce 4K+ · 5.0★ (38) wp.org #21 ↓2 1 too low 21 CartSuite – Cart All In One For WooCommerce 5K+ · 4.5★ (51) wp.org #23 2 too low 22 Featherweight 10K+ · 4.1★ (45) wp.org #24 2 too low 23 WPC Added To Cart Notification for WooCommerce 3K+ · 4.9★ (9) wp.org #16 ↓1 7 too high 24 Cart Lift – Abandoned Cart Recovery for WooCommerce and EDD 900+ · 4.8★ (9) 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.