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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “multilingual forms”

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 “multilingual forms”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 13 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

Universally – AI Translation & Multilingual SEO: Translate Your Site into 110+ Languages shows at wp.org #5 but places #23 on merit, a gap of 18 places. Its 30K+ 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

WS Form LITE – Drag & Drop Contact Form Builder places #10 on merit, 5.0★ from 322 reviews, but shows at wp.org #17. 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 Fluent Forms – Customizable Contact Forms, Survey, Quiz, & Conversational Form Builder 800K+ · 4.8★ (807) wp.org #2 3 WPML Multilingual & Multicurrency for WooCommerce 100K+ · 4.2★ (454) wp.org #4 1 too low 4 Translate WordPress with GTranslate 900K+ · 4.9★ (4962) wp.org #7 3 too low 5 MetForm – Contact Form, Survey, Quiz, Conditional Forms, Form Templates & Custom Form Builder for Elementor 500K+ · 4.7★ (509) wp.org #6 1 too low 6 Formidable Forms – Contact Form, Survey, Quiz, Payment, Calculator Form & Custom Form Builder 300K+ · 4.8★ (1388) wp.org #11 ↑1 5 too low 7 All in One SEO – AI SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Traffic (Schema, Local SEO, Sitemap & SEO Insights) 2M+ · 4.7★ (5231) wp.org #13 ↓2 6 too low 8 Bit Form – Contact Form, Payment Forms, Multi Step Forms, Calculator & Custom Form Builder 10K+ · 5.0★ (259) wp.org #14 ↑1 6 too low 9 SureForms – Contact Form Builder, AI Forms, Payment Form, Survey & Quiz 500K+ · 4.8★ (102) wp.org #10 ↓2 1 too low 10 WS Form LITE – Drag & Drop Contact Form Builder 10K+ · 5.0★ (322) wp.org #17 7 too low 11 hCaptcha for WP 70K+ · 4.6★ (88) wp.org #12 ↑1 1 too low 12 Transliterator – Multilingual and Multi-script Text Conversion 3K+ · 4.8★ (96) wp.org #15 ↓1 3 too low 13 Multilingual Contact Form 7 with Polylang 9K+ · 4.9★ (17) wp.org #9 ↑1 4 too high 14 WP Data Access – App Builder for Tables, Forms, Dashboards, Charts & Maps 10K+ · 4.9★ (88) wp.org #20 ↑1 6 too low 15 WP Multilang – Translation and Multilingual Plugin 10K+ · 4.3★ (100) wp.org #19 4 too low 16 Loco Translate 1M+ · 4.8★ (453) wp.org #24 8 too low 17 Multilingual Forms for Fluent Forms with WPML 1K+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #3 14 too high 18 PDF Forms Filler for CF7 3K+ · 4.8★ (13) wp.org #16 2 too high 19 Linguator – AI Auto Translate & Create Multilingual Sites 3K+ · 4.6★ (20) wp.org #21 ↓1 2 too low 20 Contact Forms by Cimatti 700+ · 4.4★ (16) wp.org #22 2 too low 21 Zoho Forms – Drag & Drop Form Builder for Websites – Contact Forms, Payment Forms, Order Forms & More 10K+ · 2.7★ (14) wp.org #8 ↑1 13 too high 22 PDF for Elementor Forms + Drag And Drop Template Builder 1K+ · 3.9★ (11) wp.org #23 1 too low 23 Universally – AI Translation & Multilingual SEO: Translate Your Site into 110+ Languages 30K+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #5 18 too high 24 Tranzly™ – AI Translation & Multilingual 7K+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #18 6 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.