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

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 “kannada”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 15 of the top 20. 1 plugin is 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

Kommunicate – AI Agents and Live Chat for Customer Support shows at wp.org #4 but places #9 on merit, a gap of 5 places. Its 60+ 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

LocoAI – Auto Translate for Loco Translate places #5 on merit, 4.9★ from 642 reviews, but shows at wp.org #24. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 ConveyThis AI Multilingual Translation 1K+ · 4.4★ (145) wp.org #2 ↑1 1 too low 2 Automatic Translator with Google Translate 2K+ · 4.4★ (11) wp.org #1 1 too high 3 GSpeech TTS – WordPress Text To Speech Plugin 3K+ · 4.8★ (178) wp.org #5 2 too low 4 Translate WordPress with GTranslate 900K+ · 4.9★ (4962) wp.org #14 ↓1 10 too low 5 LocoAI – Auto Translate for Loco Translate 70K+ · 4.9★ (642) wp.org #24 ↓2 19 too low 6 Popup Like box – Page Plugin 100+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #3 ↑1 3 too high 7 Text to Speech – Reinvent WP 40+ · 4.7★ (15) wp.org #6 1 too high 8 Prisna GWT – Google Website Translator 8K+ · 4.5★ (54) wp.org #23 ↓2 15 too low 9 Kommunicate – AI Agents and Live Chat for Customer Support 60+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #4 ↓2 5 too high 10 VedicAstroAPI 200+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 3 too high 11 Intl DateTime Calendar 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 3 too high 12 LLMS.txt AI Generator 30+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 3 too high 13 Alt Text Generator AI – Automatically generate alt text for images using AI — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 ↑1 3 too high 14 Zinn® Cache 50+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 ↓1 3 too high 15 GP Machine Translate 20+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #19 ↓1 4 too low 16 Howdy World — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 4 too high 17 V Vedika Astrology — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 4 too high 18 News in 100 Words — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↓1 3 too high 19 VedIntel Astro Widgets — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↓1 3 too high 20 A AstrologyAPI — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↓1 3 too high 21 Zinn® Media Offload — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↓1 3 too high 22 Zinn® Reseller Toolkit — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓1 2 too high 23 Zinn® Connector — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 ↓1 2 too high 24 Envo Blocks – Store Templates, Blocks & Layouts for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 2 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.