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

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 wordpress sitemaps”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 9 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

XML Sitemaps Manager shows at wp.org #12 but places #24 on merit, a gap of 12 places. Its 400+ installs carry it up the search order; its 5.0★ average from 1 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

Buried gem

SEOPress – AI SEO Plugin & On-site SEO places #10 on merit, 4.8★ from 1267 reviews, but shows at wp.org #22. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 All in One SEO – AI SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Traffic (Schema, Local SEO, Sitemap & SEO Insights) 2M+ · 4.7★ (5231) wp.org #2 ↓1 1 too low 2 Translate WordPress with GTranslate 900K+ · 4.9★ (4962) wp.org #3 1 too low 3 Disable WP Sitemaps 10K+ · 5.0★ (10) wp.org #1 ↑1 2 too high 4 XML Sitemap Generator for Google 1M+ · 4.8★ (2233) wp.org #4 5 WP Fastest Cache – WordPress Cache Plugin 1M+ · 4.9★ (4228) wp.org #5 6 Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings 4M+ · 4.8★ (7519) wp.org #6 7 LiteSpeed Cache 7M+ · 4.8★ (2778) wp.org #9 ↑4 2 too low 8 XML Sitemap & Google News 100K+ · 4.4★ (85) wp.org #7 1 too high 9 Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) 200K+ · 5.0★ (423) wp.org #15 6 too low 10 SEOPress – AI SEO Plugin & On-site SEO 300K+ · 4.8★ (1267) wp.org #22 ↑1 12 too low 11 Sitemap by BestWebSoft – WordPress XML Site Map Page Generator Plugin 20K+ · 4.3★ (115) wp.org #14 3 too low 12 Dynamic XML Sitemaps Generator for Google 20K+ · 4.7★ (47) wp.org #13 ↓1 1 too low 13 WP Sitemaps Config 700+ · 5.0★ (12) wp.org #8 5 too high 14 Jetpack – AI Agents & MCP, Security, Backup & Analytics 3M+ · 3.7★ (2408) wp.org #18 4 too low 15 Disable Blog 20K+ · 4.7★ (14) wp.org #10 ↓1 5 too high 16 SureRank SEO – Meta Tags, Social Preview, XML Sitemap, Schema & Open Graph 300K+ · 4.8★ (51) wp.org #19 ↓1 3 too low 17 MxChat – AI Chatbot & Content Generation for WordPress 2K+ · 5.0★ (31) wp.org #17 18 Kwayy HTML Sitemap 6K+ · 4.7★ (18) wp.org #16 2 too high 19 D Disable Author Archives 10K+ · 4.4★ (7) wp.org #11 ↓1 8 too high 20 Hierarchical HTML Sitemap 4K+ · 5.0★ (12) wp.org #23 ↓2 3 too low 21 Sitemap Generator 3K+ · 3.7★ (23) wp.org #21 ↓1 22 WP Simple HTML Sitemap 3K+ · 4.9★ (10) wp.org #24 ↓2 2 too low 23 D Display HTML Sitemap 1K+ · 4.0★ (4) wp.org #20 ↓1 3 too high 24 XML Sitemaps Manager 400+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #12 ↓1 12 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.