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

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 “noai”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 3 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 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

Simple NoAI and NoImageAI shows at wp.org #1 but places #5 on merit, a gap of 4 places. Its 200+ 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

WP Statistics – Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative places #2 on merit, 4.1★ from 758 reviews, but shows at wp.org #10. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 My Private Site – Make Your Whole Site Private, Force Login & Block Registration Spam 10K+ · 4.5★ (82) wp.org #5 4 too low 2 WP Statistics – Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative 500K+ · 4.1★ (758) wp.org #10 ↑2 8 too low 3 AI Content Signals 800+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #2 1 too high 4 Block AI Crawlers 2K+ · 4.4★ (8) wp.org #3 1 too high 5 Simple NoAI and NoImageAI 200+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #1 4 too high 6 AI Scrape Protect 400+ · 4.7★ (3) wp.org #4 2 too high 7 WindCodex ScraperBlock – Block AI Scrapers & Bots from WordPress & WooCommerce 60+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 8 AI Deny 30+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #6 2 too high 9 Elthian AI Licensing Lite — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 1 too high 10 Super Duper SEO Title and Description 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 ↑2 1 too high 11 AntigymClub LLM.txt Generator — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 ↓1 12 GlobalDev AI Traffic Control — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 ↓3 13 Snuup — AI Visibility Check for ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 14 Gexiro Content Protection — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 15 AI-Ready Core — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↓1 16 AumCrawl – AI Crawler Control: See and Block AI Bots — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↓1 17 Acez SEO AI – Schema, llms.txt & AI Meta Tags — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↓1 18 SoftGlaze AI Crawler Monitor — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↓1 19 OwlyCrackGeo — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↓1 20 R RokthamBot — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓1 21 Oorank – AI Citation Toolkit — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 ↓1 22 Crawlune – AI Crawler Controls — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 ↓1 23 AgentGarrison – AI Visibility, AEO, GEO, AI Bot & Agent Control — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↓1 24 Bravo Crawl Hunter – AI Crawl Blocker, Block AI Bots & Crawlers 10+ · 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.