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Honest rankings: “page builder”

WordPress.org search rewards raw install count with no ceiling, so the biggest install bases float to the top regardless of quality signals. Here's what searchers actually see, next to a merit ranking that caps the install factor and weights ratings by review volume. How this works →

Install-weight distortion

Colibri Page Builder sits at wp.org #9 but earns only #23 on merit , 97% of its ranking comes from install count alone, on 90K+ installs at just 4.4★.

Buried gem

WPForms – AI Form Builder for WordPress – Contact Forms, Payment Forms, Survey Form, Quiz & More deserves #1 on merit but wp.org shows it at #13 , 4.8★ from 14354 reviews, buried by lower-quality plugins with bigger install counts.

wp.org merit plugin Δ
1 #3 Elementor Website Builder – more than just a page builder 10M+ · 4.5★ (7276) +2 2 #9 Kadence Blocks — Page Builder Toolkit for Gutenberg Editor 600K+ · 4.8★ (331) +7 3 #7 Duplicate Page 3M+ · 4.8★ (467) +4 4 #6 Page Builder by SiteOrigin 400K+ · 4.8★ (1004) +2 5 #17 Greenshift – animation and page builder blocks 70K+ · 4.8★ (107) +12 6 #2 Website Builder by SeedProd — Theme Builder, Landing Page Builder, Coming Soon Page, Maintenance Mode 700K+ · 4.9★ (4699) -4 7 #10 Otter Blocks – Gutenberg Blocks, Page Builder for Gutenberg Editor & FSE 300K+ · 4.7★ (249) +3 8 #18 Kirki – Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customizer 500K+ · 4.5★ (80) +10 9 #23 Colibri Page Builder 90K+ · 4.4★ (77) +14 10 #14 Beaver Builder Page Builder – Drag and Drop Website Builder 100K+ · 4.7★ (392) +4 11 #15 Landing Page Builder – Coming Soon page, Maintenance Mode, Lead Page, WordPress Landing Pages 9K+ · 4.6★ (201) +4 12 #5 Spectra Gutenberg Blocks – Website Builder for the Block Editor 1M+ · 4.7★ (1869) -7 13 #1 WPForms – AI Form Builder for WordPress – Contact Forms, Payment Forms, Survey Form, Quiz & More 5M+ · 4.8★ (14354) -12 14 #4 Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder 600K+ · 4.8★ (2098) -10 15 #24 Bold Page Builder 40K+ · 3.6★ (66) +9 16 #8 User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor 50K+ · 4.7★ (734) -8 17 #19 Post and Page Builder by BoldGrid – Visual Drag and Drop Editor 50K+ · 4.7★ (140) +2 18 #12 Brizy – Page Builder 70K+ · 4.7★ (965) -6 19 #20 Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder 400K+ · 3.9★ (102) +1 20 #11 Gutenberg Essential Blocks – Page Builder for Gutenberg Blocks & Patterns 200K+ · 4.9★ (211) -9 21 #22 Kubio AI Page Builder 90K+ · 4.3★ (75) +1 22 #16 Nexter Blocks – Gutenberg Blocks, Page Builder & AI Website Builder 10K+ · 4.8★ (89) -6 23 #21 Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks – CoBlocks 300K+ · 4.3★ (108) -2 24 #13 Stackable – Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks 100K+ · 4.9★ (518) -11

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.