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

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 “faith”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 2 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

Growfund – Ultimate Donation & Crowdfunding Solution shows at wp.org #11 but places #24 on merit, a gap of 13 places. Its 100+ installs carry it up the search order; its 1.0★ average from 1 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Better Robots.txt – AI-Ready Crawl Control & Bot Governance 5K+ · 4.5★ (102) wp.org #3 ↓2 2 too low 2 Zeffy Donate Button 1K+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #2 3 SureDonation – Donation Forms, Fundraising Campaigns & Donor Management 4K+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #1 ↑2 2 too high 4 ShopCred – WooCommerce Builder with Products Grid & Carousel Block 30+ · 4.5★ (8) wp.org #6 2 too low 5 Mission – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising & Recurring Donations 70+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #4 1 too high 6 Tushiyah Sermon Audio Manager — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #5 1 too high 7 Islamic Books by EDC 40+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #10 ↓1 3 too low 8 FaithInfused Profit Analyzer for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 1 too high 9 SproutOS – Create Creative Sites with AI 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 1 too high 10 WebHosting4U Secure Card Gateway for ePay Paycenter (Piraeus Bank) 50+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 ↑1 1 too high 11 PatchCart — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 1 too low 12 Cromanion — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 1 too low 13 Questions Deck — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 1 too low 14 B Byte Sermons — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 1 too low 15 Guru Site Health Score, Audit & One-Click Fixes — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↑1 1 too low 16 Preflight Update Sandbox — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↓1 1 too low 17 OpenAisle – Accessibility & EAA Compliance Scanner for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 1 too low 18 Static Cache Wrangler 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 2 too low 19 Islamic Content Archive For The Faith — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 20 Disclo — EU AI Act Article 50 AI Disclosure — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 1 too low 21 LucidPen – AI Writing Assistant for Journaling, Prayer, and Reflection — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 1 too low 22 FiD Facial Recognition Admin Login — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 1 too low 23 Islamic Content Archive For Muslim e-Library 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24 1 too low 24 Growfund – Ultimate Donation & Crowdfunding Solution 100+ · 1.0★ (1) wp.org #11 13 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.