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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “payment gateway fee”

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 “payment gateway fee”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 8 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

Crypto Payment Gateway with Instant Payouts shows at wp.org #9 but places #19 on merit, a gap of 10 places. Its 1K+ installs carry it up the search order; its 5.0★ average from 2 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

Buried gem

Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy places #11 on merit, 4.7★ from 591 reviews, but shows at wp.org #19. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Payment Plugins for Stripe WooCommerce 100K+ · 4.8★ (303) wp.org #2 1 too low 2 WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway 700K+ · 3.1★ (237) wp.org #1 1 too high 3 Payment Plugins for PayPal WooCommerce 80K+ · 4.8★ (127) wp.org #4 ↑1 1 too low 4 Pay for Payment for WooCommerce – Payment Gateway Fees & Discounts 10K+ · 4.7★ (71) wp.org #5 ↓1 1 too low 5 WooCommerce PayPal Payments 800K+ · 2.9★ (583) wp.org #3 2 too high 6 FunnelKit Payment Gateway for Stripe WooCommerce 20K+ · 4.9★ (53) wp.org #6 7 Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction 10K+ · 4.7★ (270) wp.org #11 4 too low 8 Payment Gateway of Stripe for WooCommerce 7K+ · 4.4★ (66) wp.org #7 1 too high 9 Payment Gateway Based Fees and Discounts for WooCommerce 30K+ · 4.7★ (58) wp.org #8 ↑4 1 too high 10 Bangladeshi Payment Gateways – Make Payment Using QR Code 4K+ · 5.0★ (92) wp.org #12 ↑1 2 too low 11 Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy 40K+ · 4.7★ (591) wp.org #19 8 too low 12 Payment Plugins Braintree For WooCommerce 2K+ · 4.8★ (149) wp.org #14 ↓5 2 too low 13 Fluent Forms – Customizable Contact Forms, Survey, Quiz, & Conversational Form Builder 800K+ · 4.8★ (807) wp.org #20 ↓1 7 too low 14 PiWeb Disable payment method / Partial payment for WooCommerce 4K+ · 5.0★ (38) wp.org #18 4 too low 15 Paystack WooCommerce Payment Gateway 20K+ · 4.5★ (25) wp.org #21 6 too low 16 افزونه پرداخت امن زرین‌پال برای ووکامرس (ZarinPal for WooCommerce) 60K+ · 3.5★ (13) wp.org #13 ↑1 3 too high 17 Paysera Payment Gateway for WooCommerce 7K+ · 2.9★ (16) wp.org #15 2 too high 18 HitPay Payment Gateway for WooCommerce 4K+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #17 1 too high 19 Crypto Payment Gateway with Instant Payouts 1K+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #9 ↓1 10 too high 20 I Inspire Commerce Gateway for WooCommerce 10K+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #10 10 too high 21 Payment and Shipping Method Checkout Fee for WooCommerce 200+ · 5.0★ (5) wp.org #23 2 too low 22 Conekta Payment Gateway 2K+ · 3.5★ (6) wp.org #16 6 too high 23 N Ni WooCommerce Payment Gateway Charges 100+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #22 1 too high 24 FunnelKit Payment Gateway with PayPal for WooCommerce 200+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #24

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.