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

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 “monospace”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 5 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

EAN, UPC and ISBN for WooCommerce shows at wp.org #9 but places #13 on merit, a gap of 4 places. Its 100+ installs carry it up the search order; its 3.0★ average from 2 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

merit plugin wp.org
1 M Mammoth .docx converter 20K+ · 4.8★ (62) wp.org #1 2 Advanced Custom Fields: Extended 100K+ · 4.8★ (132) wp.org #5 3 too low 3 Social comments by WpDevArt 7K+ · 4.3★ (42) wp.org #3 4 Simple Ebook Viewer 400+ · 5.0★ (6) wp.org #4 5 Better RTL Support 200+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #2 3 too high 6 Website Maintenance – PTI 10+ · 5.0★ (5) wp.org #8 2 too low 7 DocxToPost – Import Word (DOCX) & Markdown to Posts, Pages & Custom Post Types 100+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #6 1 too high 8 KooKoa Folders – Media Library Folders & File Organizer 20+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #10 2 too low 9 Lineate — Poetry Blocks 100+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 2 too high 10 Selective Thumbnail Regenerator 30+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 1 too low 11 Secure Draft Preview Links 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 1 too low 12 TypeSifter for Elementor — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 1 too low 13 EAN, UPC and ISBN for WooCommerce 100+ · 3.0★ (2) wp.org #9 4 too high 14 S StyloText Generator — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↓1 2 too low 15 jsonyo — JSON Toolkit — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↓1 2 too low 16 Web-Safe Fonts for Editor by RotiStudio — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↓1 2 too low 17 Accessible Login – WCAG AA Login & Registration — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #14 3 too high 18 Global Weather Pro: Weather Widget for WP 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↓1 1 too low 19 SoftGlaze Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #15 4 too high 20 Abstract Box — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓1 21 RelayCard — Inline Related Post Cards — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 22 Heralda – Announcement Bar & Notification Bar — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 ↓2 23 Besked Notifications — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↓1 24 ProofBlocks – Pricing Table, Call to Action & Counter Blocks — · 0.0★ (0) 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.