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

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 “ogg”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 11 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

Media Player Addons for Elementor – Audio and Video Widgets for Elementor shows at wp.org #13 but places #23 on merit, a gap of 10 places. Its 1K+ installs carry it up the search order; its 3.7★ average from 3 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

Buried gem

Location Weather – WordPress Weather Forecast, Air Quality & Weather Widget places #7 on merit, 4.5★ from 103 reviews, but shows at wp.org #22. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 HTML5 Video Player – embed fast, responsive videos with ease 20K+ · 4.6★ (195) wp.org #1 ↑1 2 HTML5 Audio Player – The Ultimate No-Code Podcast, MP3 & Audio Player 10K+ · 4.6★ (169) wp.org #3 ↑1 1 too low 3 Compact WP Audio Player 20K+ · 4.1★ (69) wp.org #2 ↓1 1 too high 4 Product Video Gallery for Woocommerce 10K+ · 4.6★ (97) wp.org #4 ↓1 5 CP Media Player – Audio Player and Video Player 3K+ · 4.4★ (46) wp.org #5 6 CatFolders Document Gallery & PDF Library 3K+ · 4.5★ (15) wp.org #8 2 too low 7 Location Weather – WordPress Weather Forecast, Air Quality & Weather Widget 10K+ · 4.5★ (103) wp.org #22 ↓2 15 too low 8 M MimeTypes Link Icons 8K+ · 5.0★ (26) wp.org #15 ↓1 7 too low 9 Video Player Block – play videos beautifully on any device 2K+ · 5.0★ (8) wp.org #9 ↓2 10 Shared Files – File Upload & Download Manager 4K+ · 4.4★ (34) wp.org #17 ↓2 7 too low 11 Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe 1K+ · 4.4★ (89) wp.org #24 ↓1 13 too low 12 Lean Player – Video and Audio Player with Playlist for WordPress, Elementor and Gutenberg 2K+ · 4.7★ (6) wp.org #6 6 too high 13 Easy Media Download 8K+ · 4.0★ (28) wp.org #14 ↓1 1 too low 14 Radio Player Page 300+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #7 7 too high 15 Liteweight Podcast – run your podcast site without the bloat 400+ · 4.3★ (9) wp.org #10 ↓1 5 too high 16 Voice Audio Widgets – Voice recorder with Forms, AI Powered STT, TTS, Transcriptions, Language Teaching 300+ · 5.0★ (16) wp.org #23 ↓2 7 too low 17 Audio Album 4K+ · 5.0★ (12) wp.org #20 ↓3 3 too low 18 Video Background Block – Add Stunning Video Backgrounds to Any Section 2K+ · 4.5★ (4) wp.org #11 7 too high 19 Bradmax Player 1K+ · 4.3★ (11) wp.org #19 ↓3 20 Elevator 20+ · 4.7★ (3) wp.org #16 4 too high 21 Cleanup Orphan Images 100+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #12 ↓2 9 too high 22 Transcoder 400+ · 3.6★ (8) wp.org #21 ↓3 1 too high 23 Media Player Addons for Elementor – Audio and Video Widgets for Elementor 1K+ · 3.7★ (3) wp.org #13 ↓1 10 too high 24 KindPixels PDF Gallery – Turn Files into Clean Galleries 40+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #18 ↑1 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.