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

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 “icecast”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 5 of the top 20. 3 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

Stream Player by netmix® – Streaming audio for WordPress! shows at wp.org #13 but places #18 on merit, a gap of 5 places. Its 60+ 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.

merit plugin wp.org
1 AudioIgniter Music Player 10K+ · 4.6★ (64) wp.org #2 1 too low 2 MP3 Audio Player – Music Player, Podcast Player & Radio by Sonaar 20K+ · 4.8★ (302) wp.org #3 ↑1 1 too low 3 Shoutcast Icecast HTML5 Radio Player 900+ · 2.8★ (16) wp.org #1 2 too high 4 HTML5 Audio Player – The Ultimate No-Code Podcast, MP3 & Audio Player 10K+ · 4.6★ (169) wp.org #7 3 too low 5 Radio Player Page 300+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #4 ↓1 1 too high 6 StreamCast – bring live radio to your site with a sleek player 1K+ · 4.9★ (7) wp.org #5 ↑1 1 too high 7 Radio Station by netmix® – Manage and play your Show Schedule in WordPress! 1K+ · 4.6★ (30) wp.org #11 4 too low 8 Lean Player – Video and Audio Player with Playlist for WordPress, Elementor and Gutenberg 2K+ · 4.7★ (6) wp.org #6 ↓1 2 too high 9 S Simple Radio Forty Two 10+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #9 10 Heimatradio Footer Radio Player 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #8 2 too high 11 VMPlayer 50+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 1 too low 12 SkipSeek Radio 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 ↑5 2 too low 13 Shader Carousel 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↓1 2 too low 14 WPRadio – WordPress Radio Streaming Plugin 200+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #10 4 too high 15 Filmstrip Carousel 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↑6 1 too low 16 FWD Izubizu Radio & Audio Player — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↓2 2 too low 17 FWD Plasmic Audio Player — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↓2 2 too low 18 Stream Player by netmix® – Streaming audio for WordPress! 60+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 5 too high 19 FWD Pop Audio Player — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓2 1 too low 20 PlanetaChurch Radio Player — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 ↓1 1 too low 21 Shader Spiral Carousel — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #17 ↓2 4 too high 22 Servidores Seguros Radio Player — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 ↓1 23 FWD Filmstrip Slider — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 24 C Community Radio Jukebox — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24

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.