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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “mw wp form”

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 “mw wp form”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 14 of the top 20. 3 plugins are 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.

Ranked above its merit

Formari Confirm Form shows at wp.org #10 but places #15 on merit, a gap of 5 places. Its — installs carry it up the search order; its 0.0★ average from 0 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Advanced Form Integration — Connect Forms to 300+ Apps 9K+ · 4.8★ (91) wp.org #2 1 too low 2 M MW WP Form 200K+ · 4.2★ (23) wp.org #1 1 too high 3 WP-Lister Lite for Amazon 800+ · 3.9★ (22) wp.org #3 4 Z zipaddr-jp 50K+ · 5.0★ (6) wp.org #11 ↑1 7 too low 5 MW Font Changer 7K+ · 4.3★ (30) wp.org #14 ↑1 9 too low 6 RDP Wiki Embed 300+ · 5.0★ (12) wp.org #18 ↑1 12 too low 7 reCAPTCHA for MW WP Form 30K+ · 3.7★ (3) wp.org #4 3 too high 8 Brilliant Web-to-Lead for Salesforce 2K+ · 4.4★ (38) wp.org #19 ↑1 11 too low 9 Form Plant 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #5 ↑1 4 too high 10 Frontierline Forms – Confirmation & Multi-Step for Contact Form 7 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #6 ↑1 4 too high 11 FormNest – 日本語対応フォームビルダー 100+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 ↑1 4 too high 12 Unomoon Form — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 ↑1 4 too high 13 LW Simple Forms 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 ↑1 4 too high 14 MembershipWorks Login Connector 800+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #16 ↑1 2 too low 15 Formari Confirm Form — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 ↑1 5 too high 16 Kaze Contact Form — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 ↑1 4 too high 17 Eatransform FormLeak — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↑1 4 too high 18 Hajik Form Guard — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↑1 3 too high 19 M MW WP Form A8 Tracker 50+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↑1 2 too high 20 Awesome MW WP Form Styles 30+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↑1 21 MW WP Form kintone 200+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 ↑1 1 too low 22 M MWS Click-to-reveal — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↑1 1 too low 23 M MW WP Form reCAPTCHA 1K+ · 1.0★ (1) wp.org #21 ↑1 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.