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

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 “drinks”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 8 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

FoodBook Lite – Online Food Ordering System shows at wp.org #7 but places #16 on merit, a gap of 9 places. Its 300+ 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.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Five Star Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering 5K+ · 4.6★ (107) wp.org #2 1 too low 2 Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering 2K+ · 4.5★ (15) wp.org #1 1 too high 3 Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks – CoBlocks 300K+ · 4.2★ (109) wp.org #3 4 Open User Map – Interactive Leaflet Maps 10K+ · 5.0★ (70) wp.org #4 ↑2 5 GutenBee – Gutenberg Blocks 6K+ · 4.9★ (18) wp.org #5 6 Yada Wiki 2K+ · 4.9★ (23) wp.org #6 ↓2 7 WPCafe – Restaurant Menu, Online Food Ordering & Table Booking System 5K+ · 4.6★ (113) wp.org #10 ↓1 3 too low 8 Food Online for WooCommerce 300+ · 4.1★ (26) wp.org #9 1 too low 9 Live Event Seating Lite – Seating Chart, Floor Plan, RSVP & Event Ticket 40+ · 5.0★ (12) wp.org #17 ↓1 8 too low 10 Easy restaurant menu manager 200+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #8 2 too high 11 Elegance Menu 60+ · 4.4★ (7) wp.org #16 ↓1 5 too low 12 SUBRE – Product Subscription for WooCommerce – Recurring Payments 100+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #13 ↓2 1 too low 13 FooSales – Point of Sale (POS) for WooCommerce 600+ · 3.2★ (13) wp.org #14 ↓1 1 too low 14 AI Block Editor – Add and Edit Gutenberg Blocks with an AI Assistant 100+ · 4.6★ (5) wp.org #12 2 too high 15 WebPOS – Point of Sale for WooCommerce 50+ · 3.7★ (6) wp.org #20 ↓1 5 too low 16 FoodBook Lite – Online Food Ordering System 300+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #7 9 too high 17 WowRestro – Restaurant Ordering & Operations for WooCommerce 10+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #23 ↓2 6 too low 18 DineKit – Restaurant Menu, Online Ordering, Table Reservations & POS 70+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #19 ↓1 1 too low 19 Cross-Sell with Discounts for WooCommerce – Upsells, Related Products & Cart Offers — · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #22 3 too low 20 Funbutler Booking System 100+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #11 ↓1 9 too high 21 WT Catalog 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↑2 3 too high 22 PriorNotify — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #15 ↓1 7 too high 23 Capturly 100+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #21 ↓4 2 too high 24 Buttonify-Dropshipping 30+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #24 ↓2

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.