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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “moon phases”

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

merit plugin wp.org
1 Location Weather – WordPress Weather Forecast, Air Quality & Weather Widget 10K+ · 4.5★ (103) wp.org #3 2 too low 2 iCalendrier 700+ · 5.0★ (5) wp.org #1 1 too high 3 EZ Horoscope Professional 300+ · 4.8★ (12) wp.org #4 1 too low 4 Celestial Lunar Phase Widget 50+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #2 2 too high 5 XTX Integration for Netatmo 10+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #6 1 too low 6 Arianne G Esotools 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #5 1 too high 7 AstroWay – Astrology, Birth Chart & Horoscope Widgets 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 8 Simple Location 300+ · 4.6★ (8) wp.org #22 ↓2 14 too low 9 VedicAstroAPI 200+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 1 too high 10 SunnyTracker Widgets — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 1 too high 11 The Stars at Night 100+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #21 10 too low 12 CosmyDay Astrology Widgets — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 2 too high 13 AstroWay for Elementor — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 2 too high 14 Sezgi Astrology Calculators — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 2 too high 15 WP Moon Phase Widget 200+ · 3.8★ (4) wp.org #23 ↓1 8 too low 16 PrintLab for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↑1 3 too high 17 Spelhubben Weather 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 ↓2 3 too high 18 MultiWeather — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↓2 3 too high 19 RoxyAPI: Astrology, Vedic, Forecast, Human Design, Numerology 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↓1 3 too high 20 A AstrologyAPI — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↓1 3 too high 21 APIFreaks — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↓1 3 too high 22 The Moon – Current Phase and Next Eclipse 100+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #19 ↓1 3 too high 23 Noesia Smart Waiter — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓1 3 too high 24 C Current Moon Information 90+ · 1.7★ (3) 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.