Plugin Pulse Beta
← Rankings

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

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 “emerald”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 1 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.

merit plugin wp.org
1 RPB Chessboard 1K+ · 4.8★ (20) wp.org #1 2 Affiliate Amazon Shortcode 300+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #2 3 DC Login Designer 30+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #3 ↑1 4 Keyideas Jewelry Filter & Search — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #5 ↑1 1 too low 5 Mawu Dark Mode for the Admin Dashboard, Editor & Website 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #4 ↓1 1 too high 6 WPC Shop Quiz – Product Finder for WooCommerce 40+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 ↑1 1 too low 7 W WoW Progress 20+ · 4.5★ (6) wp.org #23 ↓2 16 too low 8 ButtonCraft Animated Buttons – With Click Analytics — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #6 ↑1 2 too high 9 AbhinavDev Announcement Bar — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 1 too high 10 WordPress Store Locator AI powered – Elementor – Fast loading – Local SEO — · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #14 ↓1 4 too low 11 3task Glossary: A-Z Index, Dictionary & Wiki — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 2 too high 12 WPC LicenseHive – Smart License Manager for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 2 too high 13 Optic Read-O-Meter — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 2 too high 14 Aqil Zikry Waktu Solat Malaysia — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 2 too high 15 Advisers Contacts — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 2 too high 16 Ramisa Online Chat — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↓1 1 too high 17 STAMPT Verify — Human Identity, No Puzzles — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↓1 1 too high 18 Amortexa Mortgage Calculator — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↓1 1 too high 19 Quotely Estimates for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↓1 1 too high 20 CasavoLab Business Manager — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↓1 1 too high 21 Bucketforms Lite — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓1 1 too high 22 Nativus Dashboard — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 1 too high 23 DominoForm – Advanced Contact Form, Polls, Survey & Quiz Builder — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 ↓2 1 too high 24 News Ticker – Floating Headlines & Sticky Alerts 100+ · 1.0★ (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.