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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “quick contact”

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 “quick contact”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 7 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

Contact Form to Chat Apps | Click to Chat to Order – FormyChat shows at wp.org #12 but places #21 on merit, a gap of 9 places. Its 3K+ installs carry it up the search order; its 5.0★ average from 6 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 #9 on merit, 4.8★ from 27821 reviews, but shows at wp.org #17. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 WPForms – AI Form Builder for WordPress – Contact Forms, Payment Forms, Survey Form, Quiz & More 5M+ · 4.8★ (14387) wp.org #1 ↑1 2 Ultra Addons for Contact Form 7 60K+ · 4.8★ (107) wp.org #2 ↑1 3 Fluent Forms – Customizable Contact Forms, Survey, Quiz, & Conversational Form Builder 800K+ · 4.8★ (807) wp.org #4 ↑1 1 too low 4 CF7 Apps – Addons for Contact Form 7 (Honeypot, Database, Redirection, Webhook, etc.) 300K+ · 3.8★ (135) wp.org #3 ↑1 1 too high 5 Contact Form by BestWebSoft – Advanced WP Contact Form Builder for WordPress 30K+ · 4.0★ (292) wp.org #7 ↑1 2 too low 6 Quick Adsense 20K+ · 3.9★ (74) wp.org #5 ↑2 1 too high 7 Anti-Spam, Spam FireWall by CleanTalk 200K+ · 4.8★ (3221) wp.org #14 ↓1 7 too low 8 Site Kit by Google – Analytics, Search Console, AdSense, Speed 5M+ · 4.2★ (1012) wp.org #8 ↑7 9 Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI 10M+ · 4.8★ (27821) wp.org #17 ↑2 8 too low 10 Quick View For WooCommerce 1K+ · 4.8★ (99) wp.org #10 ↑1 11 Drag and Drop Multiple File Upload for Contact Form 7 60K+ · 4.8★ (94) wp.org #11 ↓2 12 Quick Contact Form 1K+ · 4.9★ (21) wp.org #6 6 too high 13 Jetpack – AI Agents & MCP, Security, Backup & Analytics 3M+ · 3.7★ (2408) wp.org #16 ↑1 3 too low 14 Speed Contact Bar 4K+ · 4.6★ (56) wp.org #13 ↑1 1 too high 15 Quads Ads Manager for Google AdSense 20K+ · 4.9★ (1087) wp.org #21 6 too low 16 Contact Form to Any API 8K+ · 5.0★ (28) wp.org #9 ↑1 7 too high 17 Contact Form Email 8K+ · 4.3★ (102) wp.org #15 2 too high 18 MetForm – Contact Form, Survey, Quiz, Conditional Forms, Form Templates & Custom Form Builder for Elementor 500K+ · 4.7★ (509) wp.org #18 ↓2 19 Custom Contact Forms 6K+ · 3.5★ (171) wp.org #19 ↓1 20 CP Contact Form with PayPal 800+ · 3.8★ (65) wp.org #23 3 too low 21 Contact Form to Chat Apps | Click to Chat to Order – FormyChat 3K+ · 5.0★ (6) wp.org #12 9 too high 22 Contact Forms by Cimatti 700+ · 4.4★ (16) wp.org #22 23 Quick PayPal Payments: Payment Button & Form 1K+ · 4.4★ (32) wp.org #20 3 too high 24 Constant Contact + WooCommerce 1K+ · 1.8★ (10) 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.