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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “disable title”

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 title”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 14 of the top 20. 1 plugin is 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

Bulk Auto Image Title Attribute (Image Title tag) optimizer (Image SEO) shows at wp.org #7 but places #21 on merit, a gap of 14 places. Its 900+ installs carry it up the search order; its 3.6★ average from 5 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

Buried gem

Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings places #10 on merit, 4.8★ from 7519 reviews, but shows at wp.org #17. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Disable Gutenberg 500K+ · 5.0★ (735) wp.org #1 2 Disable Admin Notices – Hide Dashboard Notifications 100K+ · 4.7★ (367) wp.org #2 3 Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) 200K+ · 5.0★ (423) wp.org #6 3 too low 4 Disable Bloat for WordPress & WooCommerce 10K+ · 4.8★ (100) wp.org #5 1 too low 5 TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation 400K+ · 4.7★ (1667) wp.org #10 ↑2 5 too low 6 MM Title Manager — Hide Page and Post Titles 10K+ · 4.4★ (17) wp.org #3 3 too high 7 Disable Media Pages 10K+ · 5.0★ (17) wp.org #4 3 too high 8 Auto Image Attributes From Filename With Bulk Updater (Add Alt Text, Image Title For Image SEO) 100K+ · 4.8★ (93) wp.org #8 9 All in One SEO – AI SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Traffic (Schema, Local SEO, Sitemap & SEO Insights) 2M+ · 4.7★ (5231) wp.org #11 ↓2 2 too low 10 Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings 4M+ · 4.8★ (7519) wp.org #17 ↑1 7 too low 11 Relevanssi – A Better Search 100K+ · 4.8★ (406) wp.org #16 ↑1 5 too low 12 Under Construction 600K+ · 4.8★ (1285) wp.org #18 ↓7 6 too low 13 Modula Image Gallery – Photo Grid & Video Gallery 100K+ · 4.7★ (616) wp.org #21 8 too low 14 Freesoul Deactivate Plugins – Disable plugins on individual WordPress pages 8K+ · 4.8★ (104) wp.org #14 ↑2 15 SEOPress – AI SEO Plugin & On-site SEO 300K+ · 4.8★ (1267) wp.org #24 9 too low 16 Post Grid Addon for Elementor 10K+ · 4.9★ (76) wp.org #19 3 too low 17 Loginizer 1M+ · 4.8★ (1033) wp.org #20 ↑1 3 too low 18 WP Accessibility 60K+ · 4.8★ (68) wp.org #22 4 too low 19 Hide Tooltips on Hover – Clean Up Title Attributes Without Losing Accessibility 4K+ · 5.0★ (10) wp.org #13 6 too high 20 Hostinger Tools 3M+ · 3.5★ (40) wp.org #9 ↑1 11 too high 21 Bulk Auto Image Title Attribute (Image Title tag) optimizer (Image SEO) 900+ · 3.6★ (5) wp.org #7 14 too high 22 Unnotifier — disable admin notices individually 1K+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #12 ↑3 10 too high 23 Disable Media Permalink by Hardweb.it 800+ · 4.1★ (7) wp.org #15 ↓1 8 too high 24 Disable Unused Block Editor Blocks 200+ · 5.0★ (6) wp.org #23 ↓1 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.