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

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 “fixer”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 10 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

Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer shows at wp.org #4 but places #11 on merit, a gap of 7 places. Its 1K+ installs carry it up the search order; its 3.8★ average from 8 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

Buried gem

SureRank SEO – Meta Tags, Social Preview, XML Sitemap, Schema & Open Graph places #7 on merit, 4.8★ from 51 reviews, but shows at wp.org #15. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 SSL Insecure Content Fixer 100K+ · 4.8★ (221) wp.org #1 2 Really Simple Security – Simple and Performant Security (formerly Really Simple SSL) 3M+ · 4.9★ (8869) wp.org #2 3 D Disable Emojis (GDPR friendly) 60K+ · 5.0★ (108) wp.org #5 2 too low 4 WP Encryption: Easy HTTPS / SSL & Free SSL certificate, HTTPS redirect 50K+ · 4.9★ (1146) wp.org #8 ↑1 4 too low 5 U Unique Headers 10K+ · 4.9★ (160) wp.org #6 1 too low 6 Easy HTTPS Redirection (SSL) 100K+ · 4.2★ (71) wp.org #10 ↑1 4 too low 7 SureRank SEO – Meta Tags, Social Preview, XML Sitemap, Schema & Open Graph 300K+ · 4.8★ (51) wp.org #15 8 too low 8 Whitespace Fixer for XML Sitemap 300+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #3 5 too high 9 SEO Engine – Smart SEO with AI, Schema & Redirection for WordPress 1K+ · 4.9★ (48) wp.org #16 7 too low 10 LinkBoss – Semantic AI Internal Linking 2K+ · 4.8★ (17) wp.org #12 2 too low 11 Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer 1K+ · 3.8★ (8) wp.org #4 7 too high 12 iOS images fixer 6K+ · 4.6★ (30) wp.org #14 2 too low 13 Codesala Broken Link Fixer 30+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 6 too high 14 Scheduled Posts Issue Fixer 100+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 ↓1 5 too high 15 Image ALT Fixer 40+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 ↓1 4 too high 16 Stella 404 Fixer — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 3 too high 17 MarkuClean – AI Text Cleaner & Unicode Fixer 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #17 18 Vantorix – Subfolder Link Fixer 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 5 too low 19 Zen Site Security 70+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #18 ↑4 1 too high 20 Urdu Text Fixer 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24 ↓6 4 too low 21 Volixta SSL & Security Headers – Free SSL Certificates, HTTPS & Mixed Content Fixer 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #19 2 too high 22 Smart Alt Fixer – Image Alt Text & SEO 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #20 ↓3 2 too high 23 U2Code Product Multicurrency for WooCommerce 40+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #21 2 too high 24 S Simple Auto Post Scheduler 70+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #22 ↓3 2 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.