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

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 “idns”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 12 of the top 20. 5 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

jwp-a11y shows at wp.org #13 but places #22 on merit, a gap of 9 places. Its 100+ 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

Appointment Bookings for Zoom GoogleMeet and more – Wappointment places #8 on merit, 4.7★ from 50 reviews, but shows at wp.org #15. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 WP24 Domain Check 4K+ · 4.3★ (32) wp.org #1 2 WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – SMTP for Reliable Email Delivery with Gmail, Outlook, Amazon SES, Brevo, Other SMTP & More 4M+ · 4.8★ (5209) wp.org #3 1 too low 3 Cloudflare 200K+ · 3.5★ (181) wp.org #6 3 too low 4 Block Referer Spam 500+ · 3.4★ (21) wp.org #2 2 too high 5 WP Offload Media Lite for Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, and Google Cloud Storage 30K+ · 3.7★ (115) wp.org #9 ↓1 4 too low 6 Multiple Domain Mapping on Single Site 6K+ · 4.6★ (48) wp.org #7 ↑4 1 too low 7 Image and video gallery from Google Drive 4K+ · 4.3★ (39) wp.org #10 ↓1 3 too low 8 Appointment Bookings for Zoom GoogleMeet and more – Wappointment 1K+ · 4.7★ (50) wp.org #15 7 too low 9 WebTotem Security 700+ · 4.2★ (13) wp.org #12 3 too low 10 WebFacing™ – Email Accounts management for cPanel® 100+ · 5.0★ (8) wp.org #14 4 too low 11 Spurn — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #4 7 too high 12 IranCheck – ایران‌چک — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #5 7 too high 13 Peki – Fiken Integration for WooCommerce 30+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #17 4 too low 14 Teamgate CRM Forms for WordPress 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 ↓1 6 too high 15 Recebimento Fácil – Multicaixa payment by reference for WooCommerce 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 ↓1 4 too high 16 LeadConnector 20K+ · 2.3★ (11) wp.org #16 17 I IDNA 10+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #23 6 too low 18 WPCoreTools Disposable Email Guard 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 1 too low 19 Webmastery Site Toolkit for MCP 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 1 too low 20 TrustSig Security 30+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #18 2 too high 21 I IDN AJAX Workaround 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 22 jwp-a11y 100+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #13 9 too high 23 I Internationalize WordPress (IntlWP) 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 1 too high 24 G Google Map V3 for IDN 30+ · 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.