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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “google speech”

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 “google speech”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 11 of the top 20. 2 plugins are pushed down for signals wp.org ignores: errors, a host-installed base, or removal risk.

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

AI Provider for Google shows at wp.org #3 but places #17 on merit, a gap of 14 places. Its 50K+ installs carry it up the search order; its 0.0★ average from 0 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

Buried gem

Survey Maker by AYS places #12 on merit, 4.8★ from 79 reviews, but shows at wp.org #21. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Text To Speech TTS Accessibility 4K+ · 4.8★ (92) wp.org #2 1 too low 2 ResponsiveVoice Text To Speech 7K+ · 3.9★ (34) wp.org #1 1 too high 3 GSpeech TTS – WordPress Text To Speech Plugin 3K+ · 4.8★ (178) wp.org #4 1 too low 4 AI Puffer – AI Chatbot & MCP Server for Claude and ChatGPT 10K+ · 4.6★ (166) wp.org #9 5 too low 5 Screen Reader Accessibility – WCAG, Text-to-Speech & AI Accessibility Fixes 600+ · 4.8★ (31) wp.org #7 2 too low 6 Text to Speech – Reinvent WP 40+ · 4.7★ (15) wp.org #5 1 too high 7 WP Event Manager – Events Calendar, Registrations, Sell Tickets with WooCommerce 20K+ · 4.0★ (249) wp.org #15 ↓1 8 too low 8 HTML5 Audio Player – The Ultimate No-Code Podcast, MP3 & Audio Player 10K+ · 4.6★ (169) wp.org #16 8 too low 9 Trinity Audio – Text to Speech AI audio player to convert content into audio 2K+ · 4.0★ (25) wp.org #8 1 too high 10 Magic Login – Magic Link & Passwordless Authentication for WordPress – Login Without Password 3K+ · 4.8★ (26) wp.org #12 ↓1 2 too low 11 SiteNarrator Text-to-Speech Widget 800+ · 4.1★ (9) wp.org #6 5 too high 12 Survey Maker by AYS 5K+ · 4.8★ (79) wp.org #21 ↓6 9 too low 13 Voice Audio Widgets – Voice recorder with Forms, AI Powered STT, TTS, Transcriptions, Language Teaching 300+ · 5.0★ (16) wp.org #13 ↓1 14 Yandex Metrica 20K+ · 3.8★ (33) wp.org #10 4 too high 15 GPTranslate – Multilingual AI Translation Agent for WordPress: Translate Your Site with AI 500+ · 5.0★ (34) wp.org #20 ↓2 5 too low 16 AI 60K+ · 4.2★ (10) wp.org #11 5 too high 17 AI Provider for Google 50K+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #3 14 too high 18 Kognetiks Chatbot 500+ · 4.5★ (22) wp.org #22 ↓2 4 too low 19 Instaread Audio Player — Text-to-Speech & Article-to-Audio 90+ · 4.3★ (6) wp.org #14 ↓1 5 too high 20 Voice Search 600+ · 3.8★ (10) wp.org #18 ↓2 2 too high 21 Check for Broken Links – Broken Link Checker & SEO Suite 1K+ · 4.0★ (6) wp.org #17 ↑2 4 too high 22 Accessibility Audio TTS – Text To Speech for Articles — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #23 1 too low 23 One Accessibility – WordPress Accessibility Plugin & ADA Compliance Widget 300+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #24 ↓3 1 too low 24 Speaker Lite 30+ · 2.3★ (3) wp.org #19 ↓2 5 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.