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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “duplicate users”

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 “duplicate users”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 12 of the top 20. 2 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

Duplicate Killer – Prevent Duplicate Form Submissions shows at wp.org #10 but places #21 on merit, a gap of 11 places. Its 1K+ installs carry it up the search order; its 5.0★ average from 3 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

Buried gem

Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI places #7 on merit, 4.8★ from 27821 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 Yoast Duplicate Post 3M+ · 4.7★ (538) wp.org #1 2 Duplicate Page 3M+ · 4.8★ (466) wp.org #2 3 Import and export users and customers 70K+ · 4.7★ (259) wp.org #3 4 Duplicate Post 300K+ · 4.9★ (1623) wp.org #6 ↓2 2 too low 5 Delete Duplicate Posts 10K+ · 4.8★ (153) wp.org #8 ↓1 3 too low 6 LiteSpeed Cache 7M+ · 4.8★ (2778) wp.org #13 ↓1 7 too low 7 Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI 10M+ · 4.8★ (27821) wp.org #19 ↑5 12 too low 8 WPvivid — Backup, Migration & Staging 900K+ · 4.9★ (1568) wp.org #16 ↑4 8 too low 9 WP Duplicate Page 60K+ · 4.2★ (16) wp.org #5 4 too high 10 Online Active Users 2K+ · 4.7★ (51) wp.org #11 ↑2 1 too low 11 Duplicate Post – duplicate pages, copy content, clone posts 5K+ · 4.7★ (7) wp.org #4 ↑5 7 too high 12 Toolkit for Polylang – Translation Inspector & Duplicate Content 10K+ · 4.5★ (33) wp.org #12 ↓2 13 Duplicate Page and Post 70K+ · 4.6★ (29) wp.org #7 ↓1 6 too high 14 Duplicate PP 10K+ · 4.4★ (19) wp.org #9 ↓1 5 too high 15 Activity Log – Monitor User and Agent Changes 200K+ · 4.3★ (74) wp.org #15 16 PublishPress Revisions: Duplicate Posts, Submit, Approve and Schedule Content Changes 10K+ · 4.6★ (66) wp.org #21 ↑2 5 too low 17 New User Approve 20K+ · 4.3★ (131) wp.org #24 7 too low 18 User Frontend – Membership, User Registration, User Profile, User Directory & Content Restriction with Frontend Post Submission 20K+ · 4.1★ (537) wp.org #22 4 too low 19 Easy Duplicate Woo Order 1K+ · 4.7★ (21) wp.org #20 ↓3 1 too low 20 Duplicate Page or Post 9K+ · 4.0★ (8) wp.org #14 6 too high 21 Duplicate Killer – Prevent Duplicate Form Submissions 1K+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #10 ↑1 11 too high 22 Duplicate Title Validator 300+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #17 ↓2 5 too high 23 Clone / Duplicate Orders for WooCommerce 1K+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #23 ↓7 24 Import Users & Customers with Meta | WP Ultimate CSV Importer Add-on 5K+ · 3.0★ (2) wp.org #18 6 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.