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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “multiple payments”

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 “multiple payments”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 9 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

Monri Payments shows at wp.org #12 but places #23 on merit, a gap of 11 places. Its 1K+ 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

Anti-Spam, Spam FireWall by CleanTalk places #9 on merit, 4.8★ from 3221 reviews, but shows at wp.org #15. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder 600K+ · 4.8★ (2144) wp.org #2 1 too low 2 WPForms – AI Form Builder for WordPress – Contact Forms, Payment Forms, Survey Form, Quiz & More 5M+ · 4.8★ (14387) wp.org #3 1 too low 3 WooCommerce PayPal Payments 800K+ · 2.9★ (583) wp.org #1 2 too high 4 Payment Plugins for Stripe WooCommerce 100K+ · 4.8★ (303) wp.org #4 5 WooCommerce 7M+ · 4.5★ (4833) wp.org #5 6 Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy 40K+ · 4.7★ (591) wp.org #8 ↓1 2 too low 7 Accept Stripe Payments 20K+ · 4.1★ (114) wp.org #6 1 too high 8 Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction 10K+ · 4.7★ (270) wp.org #9 ↓1 1 too low 9 Anti-Spam, Spam FireWall by CleanTalk 200K+ · 4.8★ (3221) wp.org #15 ↑1 6 too low 10 Deposits & Partial Payments for WooCommerce 5K+ · 4.9★ (111) wp.org #10 ↑1 11 Mollie Payments for WooCommerce 100K+ · 3.6★ (69) wp.org #7 ↑3 4 too high 12 Fluent Forms – Customizable Contact Forms, Survey, Quiz, & Conversational Form Builder 800K+ · 4.8★ (807) wp.org #16 ↓3 4 too low 13 Elementor Website Builder – more than just a page builder 10M+ · 4.5★ (7322) wp.org #21 ↑3 8 too low 14 Masteriyo LMS – LMS Course Builder, Quizzes & Certificates 6K+ · 4.8★ (184) wp.org #17 ↑3 3 too low 15 Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, Appointments and more! 60K+ · 4.2★ (551) wp.org #20 ↓3 5 too low 16 SureForms – Contact Form Builder, AI Forms, Payment Form, Survey & Quiz 500K+ · 4.8★ (102) wp.org #18 ↓3 2 too low 17 WC Multiple Email Recipients 4K+ · 5.0★ (10) wp.org #11 ↓2 6 too high 18 Bitcoin Payments – Blockonomics 2K+ · 4.5★ (35) wp.org #19 1 too low 19 Direct Payments for WooCommerce – Bank Transfer, Mobile Money, Crypto and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Payments 800+ · 5.0★ (10) wp.org #22 ↓1 3 too low 20 Custom Payment Gateways for WooCommerce 8K+ · 3.8★ (21) wp.org #24 ↓1 4 too low 21 Conditional Payment Methods for WooCommerce 1K+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #13 ↑1 8 too high 22 GetPaid Stripe Payments 2K+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #14 ↑4 8 too high 23 Monri Payments 1K+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #12 11 too high 24 Zapper Payments 600+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #23 ↓1 1 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.