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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “products per page”

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 “products per page”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 12 of the top 20. 5 plugins are pushed down for signals wp.org ignores: errors, a host-installed base, or removal risk.

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

Page Visits Counter – Lite shows at wp.org #6 but places #20 on merit, a gap of 14 places. Its 5K+ installs carry it up the search order; its 4.0★ average from 7 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

Buried gem

Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI places #8 on merit, 4.8★ from 27820 reviews, but shows at wp.org #16. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Products Per Page for WooCommerce 10K+ · 4.8★ (80) wp.org #2 ↑1 1 too low 2 Product Feed PRO for WooCommerce by AdTribes – Product Feeds for WooCommerce 80K+ · 4.7★ (1068) wp.org #4 2 too low 3 Number of Products per Page – Pagination Manager for WooCommerce 1K+ · 5.0★ (8) wp.org #1 ↑1 2 too high 4 CMS Tree Page View – Reorder Pages with a Drag-and-Drop Tree 50K+ · 4.9★ (365) wp.org #5 ↑1 1 too low 5 HUSKY – Products Filter for WooCommerce Professional 80K+ · 4.6★ (336) wp.org #3 ↑2 2 too high 6 WP-Optimize – Cache, Compress images, Minify & Clean database to boost page speed & performance 1M+ · 4.8★ (2614) wp.org #11 ↑2 5 too low 7 PPWP – Password Protect Pages 30K+ · 4.7★ (270) wp.org #10 ↑2 3 too low 8 Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI 10M+ · 4.8★ (27820) wp.org #16 ↑6 8 too low 9 Kadence Blocks — Page Builder Toolkit for Gutenberg Editor 600K+ · 4.8★ (332) wp.org #9 10 Website Builder by SeedProd — Theme Builder, Landing Page Builder, Coming Soon Page, Maintenance Mode 600K+ · 4.9★ (4699) wp.org #17 7 too low 11 Maximum Products per User for WooCommerce 1K+ · 4.6★ (42) wp.org #7 ↑1 4 too high 12 All in One SEO – AI SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Traffic (Schema, Local SEO, Sitemap & SEO Insights) 2M+ · 4.7★ (5211) wp.org #12 ↑3 13 Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings 4M+ · 4.8★ (7507) wp.org #22 9 too low 14 Load More Products for WooCommerce 20K+ · 4.9★ (274) wp.org #15 ↓4 1 too low 15 Otter Blocks – Gutenberg Blocks, Page Builder for Gutenberg Editor & FSE 300K+ · 4.7★ (249) wp.org #18 3 too low 16 Advanced AJAX Product Filters 50K+ · 4.7★ (387) wp.org #20 ↑1 4 too low 17 Product Feed Manager for WooCommerce – CTX Feed – Support 220+ Shopping, AI & Social Channels 90K+ · 4.6★ (835) wp.org #23 ↓4 6 too low 18 Bulky – Bulk Edit Products for WooCommerce 10K+ · 4.6★ (53) wp.org #13 ↑3 5 too high 19 Bulk Edit Products for WooCommerce – WP Sheet Editor 10K+ · 4.9★ (228) wp.org #24 5 too low 20 Page Visits Counter – Lite 5K+ · 4.0★ (7) wp.org #6 ↑1 14 too high 21 Currency per Product for WooCommerce 2K+ · 4.1★ (17) wp.org #8 ↑2 13 too high 22 Greenshift – animation and page builder blocks 70K+ · 4.8★ (107) wp.org #21 ↑2 1 too high 23 3D Viewer – Turn Product Pages into Interactive 3D Experiences 9K+ · 4.7★ (24) wp.org #19 ↑1 4 too high 24 Terms and Conditions per Product for WooCommerce 800+ · 4.6★ (13) wp.org #14 10 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.