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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “line pay”

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 “line pay”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 11 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.

Ranked above its merit

Pay. Payment Methods for WooCommerce shows at wp.org #9 but places #22 on merit, a gap of 13 places. Its 3K+ installs carry it up the search order; its 3.7★ average from 3 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

Buried gem

Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy places #9 on merit, 4.7★ from 592 reviews, but shows at wp.org #20. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Pay for Payment for WooCommerce – Payment Gateway Fees & Discounts 10K+ · 4.7★ (71) wp.org #2 1 too low 2 Post Pay Counter 1K+ · 4.8★ (46) wp.org #4 2 too low 3 Pay with Vipps and MobilePay for WooCommerce 5K+ · 4.8★ (13) wp.org #3 4 Pay with LINE Pay 800+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #1 3 too high 5 Pay For Post with WooCommerce 1K+ · 4.7★ (53) wp.org #7 ↓2 2 too low 6 WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway 700K+ · 3.1★ (237) wp.org #5 1 too high 7 WooCommerce PayPal Payments 800K+ · 2.9★ (583) wp.org #6 ↑7 1 too high 8 Pronamic Pay 2K+ · 4.8★ (84) wp.org #10 ↓3 2 too low 9 Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy 40K+ · 4.7★ (592) wp.org #20 ↑1 11 too low 10 Payment Plugins for PayPal WooCommerce 80K+ · 4.8★ (127) wp.org #15 ↑5 5 too low 11 Translate WordPress with GTranslate 900K+ · 4.9★ (4962) wp.org #22 11 too low 12 WooPayments: Integrated WooCommerce Payments 800K+ · 3.4★ (177) wp.org #8 ↑4 4 too high 13 All in One SEO – AI SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Traffic (Schema, Local SEO, Sitemap & SEO Insights) 2M+ · 4.7★ (5231) wp.org #24 ↓5 11 too low 14 Ninja Forms – Contact Form Builder with Calculators, Quizzes, Signatures & AI Form Builder 500K+ · 4.4★ (1397) wp.org #21 7 too low 15 Stripe Payment Forms by WP Simple Pay – Accept Credit Card Payments + Subscriptions with Stripe 8K+ · 4.4★ (117) wp.org #16 ↓2 1 too low 16 Multibanco, MB WAY, Credit card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Payshop, and PIX (ifthenpay) for WooCommerce 8K+ · 5.0★ (21) wp.org #12 ↓2 4 too high 17 WP Easy Pay – Payment and Donation Form Builder for Square 1K+ · 3.8★ (42) wp.org #13 ↓5 4 too high 18 Split Pay – Stripe Connect Split Payments & Multi-Vendor Marketplace for WooCommerce & FluentCart 100+ · 5.0★ (21) wp.org #23 5 too low 19 Barion Payment Gateway for WooCommerce 6K+ · 4.6★ (18) wp.org #18 ↓2 1 too high 20 Payment Plugins for Stripe Elementor – by Pay Addons 100+ · 5.0★ (6) wp.org #17 ↓2 3 too high 21 Pronamic Pay with Mollie for Gravity Forms 300+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #11 ↓2 10 too high 22 Pay. Payment Methods for WooCommerce 3K+ · 3.7★ (3) wp.org #9 ↓3 13 too high 23 Frisbii Pay 1K+ · 3.1★ (8) wp.org #19 ↓2 4 too high 24 pay bi 100+ · 3.0★ (4) wp.org #14 ↓3 10 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.