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

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 “marathi”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 8 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

Curtain Raiser for Inaugural Ceremony shows at wp.org #1 but places #6 on merit, a gap of 5 places. Its 90+ 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

Prisna GWT – Google Website Translator places #7 on merit, 4.5★ from 54 reviews, but shows at wp.org #23. 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 #4 ↑1 3 too low 2 GSpeech TTS – WordPress Text To Speech Plugin 3K+ · 4.8★ (178) wp.org #6 4 too low 3 Automatic Translator with Google Translate 2K+ · 4.4★ (11) wp.org #2 ↑1 1 too high 4 Translate WordPress with GTranslate 900K+ · 4.9★ (4962) wp.org #17 13 too low 5 Text to Speech – Reinvent WP 40+ · 4.7★ (15) wp.org #7 2 too low 6 Curtain Raiser for Inaugural Ceremony 90+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #1 5 too high 7 Prisna GWT – Google Website Translator 8K+ · 4.5★ (54) wp.org #23 16 too low 8 Cybokron Consent Manager Translations for YOOtheme Pro 100+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #3 ↓1 5 too high 9 Kommunicate – AI Agents and Live Chat for Customer Support 60+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #5 ↓1 4 too high 10 VedicAstroAPI 200+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 2 too high 11 LLMS.txt AI Generator 30+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 2 too high 12 Bharti Subtitles — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 2 too high 13 Alt Text Generator AI – Automatically generate alt text for images using AI — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 2 too high 14 Lipyantar Slugs — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 2 too high 15 Zinn® Cache 50+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 2 too high 16 Sankhyaank — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 2 too high 17 GP Machine Translate 20+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #24 7 too low 18 Howdy World — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 3 too high 19 NexVibe Self-Hosted Font Manager — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 3 too high 20 Polyflux Translation Engine — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 2 too high 21 Quillsy AI Content Generator — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 2 too high 22 VedIntel Astro Widgets — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 2 too high 23 A AstrologyAPI — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 2 too high 24 Zinn® Media Offload — · 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.