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

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 “profilepage”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 4 of the top 20. 1 plugin is 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

StaticForge for Cloudflare Pages shows at wp.org #11 but places #16 on merit, a gap of 5 places. Its 10+ installs carry it up the search order; its 5.0★ average from 1 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

merit plugin wp.org
1 SEOPress – AI SEO Plugin & On-site SEO 300K+ · 4.8★ (1258) wp.org #2 1 too low 2 Schema & Structured Data for WP & AMP 100K+ · 4.5★ (252) wp.org #1 1 too high 3 Schema App Structured Data 7K+ · 4.1★ (36) wp.org #3 4 Structured Content (JSON-LD) #wpsc 30K+ · 4.6★ (25) wp.org #4 5 SchemaEngine AI – AI Schema Markup, Reviews & Rich Snippets for SEO 10K+ · 4.8★ (25) wp.org #5 6 Schema Package – Structured Data & Rich Snippets Tool for SEO 200+ · 4.8★ (20) wp.org #6 7 SEO Fury – Lightning-Fast SEO + GEO: Schema, Redirects, llms.txt & More 30+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #7 8 Schema Blocks 20+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #8 9 WP MyLinks 1K+ · 4.0★ (14) wp.org #19 10 too low 10 AEOmatic — AEO, AI SEO, llms.txt & Schema 10+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #10 ↑5 11 Voidek Auto Schema Generator – JSON-LD Structured Data for SEO & AI Search 10+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #20 9 too low 12 Site-First SEO 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 3 too high 13 S Schema Markup for Medical Business — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 ↓1 1 too high 14 Holographic Lightweight SEO — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↓1 1 too high 15 Extended Schema Types for SEO — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 ↓1 1 too high 16 StaticForge for Cloudflare Pages 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #11 ↓1 5 too high 17 SameAs Profile Manager — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↓1 2 too high 18 Schema Markup Generator 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↑2 2 too high 19 ShasTech SEO Synergy — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↓1 2 too high 20 Brightery Search Optimization Toolkit — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↓1 2 too high 21 MEGA AI 300+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 22 Entity Schema 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 23 IndexMesh — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 24 S Sernicola Labs AI Friendly – llms.txt, Markdown & Schema — · 0.0★ (0) 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.