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

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 “reopening”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 5 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

Grafiduo Connector for InPost Von Halsky shows at wp.org #18 but places #23 on merit, a gap of 5 places. Its — 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 Depicter — Popup & Slider Builder 70K+ · 4.6★ (236) wp.org #1 2 Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce 10K+ · 4.6★ (189) wp.org #4 2 too low 3 MakeITeasy Popup 1K+ · 5.0★ (6) wp.org #2 1 too high 4 Open Close Store for WooCommerce – Business Hours & Order Scheduling 600+ · 3.4★ (41) wp.org #5 1 too low 5 Promolayer – Popup Builder & Abandonment Preventer 1K+ · 5.0★ (5) wp.org #3 2 too high 6 HashBar – Announcement, Notification Bar & Popup Campaign 9K+ · 4.2★ (38) wp.org #8 2 too low 7 R RuCookie & 152-ФЗ 200+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #6 1 too high 8 Plairsoft Integration — · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #19 11 too low 9 WebberZone Image Optimizer – WebP & AVIF Converter, Compress Images 20+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #10 ↑1 1 too low 10 Do Not Allow Comments Everywhere 80+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #7 3 too high 11 Delight Cookie Banner 30+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #9 2 too high 12 Chronos – Opening Hours & Scheduling 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 13 Customer Intelligence for WooCommerce 50+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 14 PayPlus Payment Gateway 1K+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 15 Smart Refunds & Returns for WooCommerce 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #11 ↓1 4 too high 16 WPGeared Better Export 70+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 17 Close Up Shop — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 18 MWNotif – Bootstrap Notification Alert — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #15 3 too high 19 Sprint Collect — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓1 1 too low 20 Smart Product Emails 30+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 1 too low 21 Eliathis Delivery Zones and Pickup for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 1 too low 22 Hearpost — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↓3 1 too low 23 Grafiduo Connector for InPost Von Halsky — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #18 5 too high 24 Captain Live Chat — · 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.