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

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 “pluginscafe”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 2 of the top 18.

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.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Smart phone field for Gravity Forms 5K+ · 4.2★ (23) wp.org #2 1 too low 2 Smart Phone Field For WPForms, Contact Form 7, Fluent Forms, Elementor Forms, WooCommerce, Formidable Forms, Ninja Forms 1K+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #1 1 too high 3 Image Picker For Gravity Forms 1K+ · 5.0★ (8) wp.org #4 1 too low 4 Restrict Dates Add-On for Gravity Forms 500+ · 5.0★ (5) wp.org #3 1 too high 5 Range Slider Addon for Gravity Forms 1K+ · 4.8★ (4) wp.org #5 6 Address Autocomplete via Google for Gravity Forms 1K+ · 4.7★ (7) wp.org #6 7 Real Time Validation For Gravity Forms 500+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #7 8 Table Addons for Elementor – Responsive Table Builder 100+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #8 9 Advanced Date Time Field For Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, WPForms, Elementor & Fluent Forms 80+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #9 10 PDF Invoices for Gravity Forms 30+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #10 11 C Connect Brevo With Gravity Forms — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 3 too low 12 Alpha Addons for Gravity Forms 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #11 1 too high 13 Integrate Klaviyo with Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, WPForms and Elementor Forms 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 2 too low 14 Formico – Elementor Form Builder Addons, Fields & CRM Integrations 20+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #12 2 too high 15 Alpha Form Builder For Elementor — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 1 too low 16 Alpha Fields – Advanced Fields & Integrations for Contact Form 7 — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #13 3 too high 17 E Easy Integration With Google Calendar 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 18 E Easy Integration With Google Sheets — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18

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.