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

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 “fulltext”, we and wp.org disagree 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 it throws errors on current PHP, whether the install base is organic or host-pushed, and its risk of being pulled.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Contextual Related Posts 50K+ · 4.8★ (201) wp.org #2 1 too low 2 WP Fast Total Search – The Power of Indexed Search 1K+ · 4.4★ (28) wp.org #1 1 too high 3 Better Search – Relevant search results for WordPress 5K+ · 4.4★ (61) wp.org #4 1 too low 4 MapSVG – Vector maps, Image maps, Google Maps 1K+ · 4.5★ (31) wp.org #5 1 too low 5 Relevanssi Light 600+ · 4.6★ (7) wp.org #3 2 too high 6 Init Live Search – AI-Powered, Related Posts, Slash Commands 90+ · 5.0★ (7) wp.org #6 7 Full-Text Search 200+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #7 8 I Icode Mail Logger — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 1 too low 9 PageScale 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 1 too low 10 Aknex Fast Product Search for WooCommerce — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #8 2 too high 11 StoreBolt – Advanced Search for WooCommerce 100+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 ↑2 12 WPFTS Add-on for WP Download Manager 20+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #18 6 too low 13 AssistKit – Site Optimizer Toolkit 60+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 ↓1 1 too high 14 OzuLabs Turbo Search for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↓1 1 too high 15 Product Search for WooCommerce 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 1 too high 16 ffinder – Search & Analytics — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 1 too high 17 Kaiizen Mail Log — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 1 too high 18 SwiftFind – Live Search for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 1 too high 19 U Ultimate Email Logger — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 20 WooCommerce AI Chatbot & Shopping Assistant – WoAssistCart AI 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 21 Oli AI Chatbot — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 22 Estasoft Name Catalog — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 ↓2 23 Wow Chat for Woo – Chatbot, Product Finder, FAQ & Search for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24 ↓2 1 too low 24 Baachal AI Chatbot — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #23 ↓2 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.