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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “remote posting”

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 “remote posting”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 10 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

VK Google Job Posting Manager shows at wp.org #2 but places #16 on merit, a gap of 14 places. Its 2K+ installs carry it up the search order; its 4.0★ average from 2 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

Buried gem

Seraphinite Accelerator places #6 on merit, 4.8★ from 477 reviews, but shows at wp.org #10. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Job Postings 10K+ · 4.4★ (58) wp.org #1 2 Anti-Spam, Spam FireWall by CleanTalk 200K+ · 4.8★ (3221) wp.org #4 2 too low 3 My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager 20K+ · 4.7★ (159) wp.org #3 4 Revive Social – Social Media Auto Post and Scheduling Automation Plugin 20K+ · 4.0★ (556) wp.org #5 1 too low 5 Spotlight Social Photo Feed 50K+ · 4.7★ (171) wp.org #7 2 too low 6 Seraphinite Accelerator 50K+ · 4.8★ (477) wp.org #10 ↑2 4 too low 7 Seriously Simple Podcasting 20K+ · 4.7★ (330) wp.org #11 ↓2 4 too low 8 Content No Cache | Serve uncached partial content even when you add it to a page that is fully cached. 200+ · 5.0★ (18) wp.org #6 ↑2 2 too high 9 Podlove Podcast Publisher 3K+ · 4.3★ (45) wp.org #8 ↑2 1 too high 10 XPoster – Share to Bluesky and Mastodon 10K+ · 3.8★ (69) wp.org #9 ↑2 1 too high 11 CM Tooltip Glossary 7K+ · 4.3★ (157) wp.org #14 ↑2 3 too low 12 Invisible Anti-Spam & CAPTCHA — reCAPTCHA Alternative for All Forms 5K+ · 4.8★ (50) wp.org #16 ↓1 4 too low 13 MediaPress 3K+ · 4.7★ (33) wp.org #23 ↑1 10 too low 14 JobBoardWP – Job Board Listings and Submissions 900+ · 5.0★ (10) wp.org #17 ↑1 3 too low 15 Content Pilot – Autoblogging & Affiliate Marketing Suite 700+ · 3.6★ (36) wp.org #22 7 too low 16 VK Google Job Posting Manager 2K+ · 4.0★ (2) wp.org #2 14 too high 17 Micropub 200+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #13 4 too high 18 Activity Link Preview For BuddyPress 100+ · 4.0★ (5) wp.org #18 ↑1 19 CM Ad Changer – A simple tool to control and optimize your site’s banners 100+ · 3.1★ (15) wp.org #24 5 too low 20 Antimanual – Compact AI Agent for Content, Chat & SEO Automation 100+ · 4.5★ (4) wp.org #15 ↑2 5 too high 21 LukStack Uptime Monitor 50+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #20 ↑1 1 too high 22 Multi Site Post Publisher 80+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #21 ↑2 1 too high 23 AI Marketing Expert — AI Email Marketing, AI Content Generator, SEO Analyzer, AI Workflow Automation, Social Media & Ai Chatbot 2K+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #12 ↑2 11 too high 24 Automated Remote Reposting 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↑1 5 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.