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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “machine translation”

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 “machine translation”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 14 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

Ray Enterprise Translation shows at wp.org #6 but places #13 on merit, a gap of 7 places. Its 7K+ installs carry it up the search order; its 2.6★ average from 48 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

Buried gem

LocoAI – Auto Translate for Loco Translate places #7 on merit, 4.9★ from 642 reviews, but shows at wp.org #18. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation 400K+ · 4.7★ (1667) wp.org #1 2 Translate WordPress with GTranslate 900K+ · 4.9★ (4962) wp.org #2 3 Polylang 900K+ · 4.7★ (3004) wp.org #3 4 Translate WordPress – Google Language Translator 100K+ · 4.7★ (620) wp.org #7 ↓1 3 too low 5 AI Translation For TranslatePress 10K+ · 4.8★ (69) wp.org #4 ↑1 1 too high 6 Translate and boost SEO – Automatic AI translation – wpLingua 2K+ · 4.9★ (33) wp.org #5 ↓1 1 too high 7 LocoAI – Auto Translate for Loco Translate 70K+ · 4.9★ (642) wp.org #18 ↓10 11 too low 8 ConveyThis AI Multilingual Translation 1K+ · 4.4★ (145) wp.org #12 4 too low 9 WPML Multilingual & Multicurrency for WooCommerce 100K+ · 4.2★ (454) wp.org #16 ↓1 7 too low 10 Loco Translate 1M+ · 4.8★ (453) wp.org #17 7 too low 11 T Translation with DeepL API 3K+ · 4.0★ (29) wp.org #8 ↓1 3 too high 12 WP Super Cache 1M+ · 4.3★ (1346) wp.org #21 9 too low 13 Ray Enterprise Translation 7K+ · 2.6★ (48) wp.org #6 7 too high 14 AutoPoly – AI Translation For Polylang 5K+ · 4.6★ (30) wp.org #15 ↑1 1 too low 15 LATW AI Translation for WPML 100+ · 5.0★ (5) wp.org #9 6 too high 16 WEB-Translation – eTranslation Multilingual 400+ · 3.7★ (7) wp.org #10 6 too high 17 Time Machine 40+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #14 3 too high 18 Tranzly™ – AI Translation & Multilingual 7K+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #11 7 too high 19 Phrase TMS Integration for WordPress 200+ · 4.0★ (4) wp.org #23 ↓1 4 too low 20 Automatic Multilingual AI Translation by Autoglot 100+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #13 7 too high 21 TranslateRocket – Free Multilingual Translation, Unlimited Languages 90+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 ↓2 1 too low 22 TranslateX for TranslatePress 300+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #19 ↓1 3 too high 23 Sa11y, the accessibility quality assurance assistant | Accessibility Checker 300+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #20 ↓1 3 too high 24 Tricot 50+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #24 ↓1

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.