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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “ingredient quantity”

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 “ingredient quantity”, we agree with wp.org 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.

Ranked above its merit

Food Recipes shows at wp.org #12 but places #16 on merit, a gap of 4 places. Its — 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.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Recipe Card Blocks Lite 10K+ · 4.8★ (20) wp.org #1 2 Germanized for WooCommerce 70K+ · 4.8★ (496) wp.org #4 2 too low 3 Create 6K+ · 4.3★ (25) wp.org #2 1 too high 4 Cooked – Recipe Management 3K+ · 3.9★ (90) wp.org #3 1 too high 5 WPCafe – Restaurant Menu, Online Food Ordering & Table Booking System 5K+ · 4.6★ (113) wp.org #6 1 too low 6 Orderable – Restaurant & Food Ordering System 5K+ · 4.6★ (40) wp.org #7 1 too low 7 VikRestaurants Table Reservations and Take-Away 600+ · 4.8★ (10) wp.org #5 2 too high 8 Restaurant & Cafe Addon for Elementor 1K+ · 4.8★ (6) wp.org #9 1 too low 9 Scheduling Plugin – Online Booking for WordPress 500+ · 3.7★ (17) wp.org #23 ↑1 14 too low 10 K Kodlo Price Builder for WooCommerce — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #8 2 too high 11 M MoCRA Compliance Checker for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 ↑1 12 Unlimited Elements Blocks Library 500+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #10 ↑1 2 too high 13 Taxonomy Note — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↑1 14 Laqi Unit Stock Manager for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 ↑1 15 Smart Product Emails 30+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↑1 16 Food Recipes — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #12 ↑1 4 too high 17 Food Products for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↑1 1 too high 18 Digitalindo MCP for Claude AI 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↑1 1 too high 19 Cocktail Recipes — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↑1 1 too high 20 How Many Coffees — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↑1 1 too high 21 CodeBold Commerce – POS and Inventory for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↑1 1 too high 22 RestoCommerce – Restaurant Menu & Food Ordering for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 ↑1 1 too high 23 Tlloancy Step Configurator for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 ↑1 1 too high 24 TP Recipe 10+ · 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.