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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “enable uploads”

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 “enable uploads”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 14 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 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

Enable virtual card upload – vcf,vcard shows at wp.org #7 but places #21 on merit, a gap of 14 places. Its 7K+ installs carry it up the search order; its 4.0★ average from 4 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

Buried gem

User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End places #9 on merit, 4.8★ from 913 reviews, but shows at wp.org #23. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Enable Media Replace 600K+ · 4.4★ (302) wp.org #1 2 Big File Uploads – Increase Maximum File Upload Size 100K+ · 4.9★ (402) wp.org #2 3 Enable Abilities for MCP 5K+ · 5.0★ (17) wp.org #3 4 Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder 600K+ · 4.8★ (2143) wp.org #12 8 too low 5 Protect Uploads 30K+ · 4.8★ (12) wp.org #4 1 too high 6 Smush – Image Optimization, Compression, Lazy Load, WebP & CDN 1M+ · 4.8★ (6053) wp.org #16 10 too low 7 Enable SVG, WebP, and ICO Upload 10K+ · 4.6★ (11) wp.org #5 2 too high 8 Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) 200K+ · 5.0★ (423) wp.org #18 ↓1 10 too low 9 User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End 10K+ · 4.8★ (913) wp.org #23 14 too low 10 Resize Image After Upload 80K+ · 4.8★ (56) wp.org #13 3 too low 11 Iptanus File Upload 10K+ · 4.4★ (117) wp.org #17 ↑4 6 too low 12 Drag and Drop Multiple File Upload for Contact Form 7 60K+ · 4.8★ (94) wp.org #19 ↓1 7 too low 13 Infinite Uploads – Offload, Optimize & Organize Your Media Library 800+ · 4.4★ (20) wp.org #9 4 too high 14 Modern Image Formats 100K+ · 3.6★ (26) wp.org #8 6 too high 15 Elementor Website Builder – more than just a page builder 10M+ · 4.5★ (7323) wp.org #22 7 too low 16 File Uploads Addon for WooCommerce 4K+ · 3.7★ (27) wp.org #10 6 too high 17 E Enable Contributor Uploads 300+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #6 11 too high 18 Safe SVG 1M+ · 4.9★ (79) wp.org #24 6 too low 19 Enable Responsive Image 1K+ · 5.0★ (5) wp.org #11 8 too high 20 Checkout Files Upload for WooCommerce 7K+ · 4.4★ (14) wp.org #20 ↓1 21 Enable virtual card upload – vcf,vcard 7K+ · 4.0★ (4) wp.org #7 14 too high 22 Enable bbPress for Block Themes 200+ · 5.0★ (5) wp.org #21 ↓1 1 too high 23 Enable Turnstile (Cloudflare) for Gravity Forms 1K+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #14 9 too high 24 Enable Mastodon Apps 500+ · 4.0★ (6) wp.org #15 9 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.