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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “floating contact”

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 “floating contact”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 13 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

Blog Floating Button shows at wp.org #7 but places #21 on merit, a gap of 14 places. Its 8K+ installs carry it up the search order; its 5.0★ average from 1 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

Buried gem

My Sticky Bar – Floating Notification Bar & Sticky Header (formerly myStickymenu) places #9 on merit, 4.9★ from 1199 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 All-in-one Sticky Floating Contact Form, Call, Click to Chat, and 50+ Social Icon Tabs – My Sticky Elements 40K+ · 4.9★ (542) wp.org #4 ↑1 3 too low 2 Ultra Addons for Contact Form 7 60K+ · 4.8★ (108) wp.org #3 ↓1 1 too low 3 Anti-Spam, Spam FireWall by CleanTalk 200K+ · 4.8★ (3221) wp.org #6 3 too low 4 Floating Contact Button 1K+ · 4.6★ (8) wp.org #1 3 too high 5 Floating Chat Widget: Contact Chat Icons, Telegram Chat, Line Messenger, WeChat, Email, SMS, Call Button – Chaty 300K+ · 5.0★ (1244) wp.org #9 4 too low 6 Floating Contact Button for MAX and Telegram 1K+ · 5.0★ (7) wp.org #2 ↑1 4 too high 7 CF7 Apps – Addons for Contact Form 7 (Honeypot, Database, Redirection, Webhook, etc.) 300K+ · 3.8★ (135) wp.org #5 ↓1 2 too high 8 Simple Floating Menu 10K+ · 5.0★ (38) wp.org #8 9 My Sticky Bar – Floating Notification Bar & Sticky Header (formerly myStickymenu) 100K+ · 4.9★ (1199) wp.org #19 ↓5 10 too low 10 Floating Chat Buttons – Click to Call or Chat, Email 1K+ · 4.9★ (54) wp.org #11 1 too low 11 Buttonizer – Floating Menus, Sticky Buttons, & Popup Builder 70K+ · 4.5★ (151) wp.org #21 10 too low 12 Buttonizer – Live Chat, AI Chatbot, Call, Chat, Contact Button 50K+ · 5.0★ (23) wp.org #15 3 too low 13 Sticky Chat Widget – Floating Chat Icons, Contact Form, Call, Click to Chat, Email & Message Buttons 10K+ · 5.0★ (39) wp.org #22 ↑2 9 too low 14 Ultimate Floating Widgets – Make popup sidebars 3K+ · 4.9★ (14) wp.org #12 2 too high 15 Animated Floating Chat Button 4K+ · 5.0★ (6) wp.org #10 5 too high 16 Float menu – awesome floating side menu 30K+ · 4.4★ (41) wp.org #24 8 too low 17 Contact Form to Chat Apps | Click to Chat to Order – FormyChat 3K+ · 5.0★ (6) wp.org #13 ↑7 4 too high 18 Floating Button – Easily Create Sticky, Fixed & Floating Buttons 4K+ · 3.0★ (15) wp.org #14 ↓1 4 too high 19 Bolt CTA Button – Floating Call Button for WordPress 2K+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #20 ↓1 1 too low 20 Sticky Floating Forms Lite 800+ · 4.6★ (5) wp.org #18 2 too high 21 Blog Floating Button 8K+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #7 14 too high 22 Floating Side Tab 600+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #16 6 too high 23 Tap Chat – Floating Contact Button 200+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #17 6 too high 24 Floating Contact Widget 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 1 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.