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

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 “humidity”, 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 the install base is organic or host-pushed, and its risk of being pulled.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Location Weather – WordPress Weather Forecast, Air Quality & Weather Widget 10K+ · 4.5★ (103) wp.org #2 1 too low 2 Weather Widget Pro 1K+ · 3.9★ (8) wp.org #1 1 too high 3 Weather Atlas Widget 8K+ · 4.1★ (41) wp.org #3 4 Simple Location 300+ · 4.6★ (8) wp.org #4 5 wp-forecast 4K+ · 4.2★ (23) wp.org #22 ↓2 17 too low 6 XTX Integration for Netatmo 10+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #5 ↓1 1 too high 7 Easy Elementor Addons – Addons Pack for Elementor Page Builder 1K+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 ↓1 8 WFY24 Weather Widget 40+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #6 ↑3 2 too high 9 TheAVCoach Weather Station for WeatherLink 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 ↓2 10 H HD Weather Widget by The Waypoint 10+ · 3.5★ (4) wp.org #10 ↓2 11 WS40 – Live Weather 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #8 ↓3 3 too high 12 One8 Weather Data Fields — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 ↓1 1 too high 13 FYP Weather — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 ↓1 1 too high 14 WeatherFlow – Hourly weather forecast widget (1-48 hour forecast) 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↓1 1 too high 15 IoT Data Widget – Home Assistant, MQTT & Smart Home Sensors — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 1 too high 16 Relayout Designs 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↓2 1 too high 17 Global Weather Pro: Weather Widget for WP 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↓1 1 too high 18 4WP Weather — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↓1 1 too high 19 30YearWeather Widget — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↓1 1 too high 20 Elio Blocks — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 1 too high 21 Extended Weather 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓2 1 too high 22 Custom Location Weather — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 ↓2 1 too high 23 ICIT Weather Widget 400+ · 3.0★ (4) wp.org #23 ↓2 24 Show Temperature for SwitchBot Meter 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24 ↓2

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.