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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “repeater block”

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 “repeater block”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 11 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

Advanced Gallery & Repeater Fields for ACF shows at wp.org #12 but places #24 on merit, a gap of 12 places. Its 700+ installs carry it up the search order; its 0.0★ average from 0 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

Buried gem

Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder places #11 on merit, 4.8★ from 2144 reviews, but shows at wp.org #23. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Kadence Blocks — Page Builder Toolkit for Gutenberg Editor 600K+ · 4.8★ (333) wp.org #1 2 Meta Field Block – Display Custom Fields for ACF, Meta Box and More 10K+ · 5.0★ (57) wp.org #4 2 too low 3 Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) 2M+ · 4.5★ (1440) wp.org #5 ↑2 2 too low 4 WPForms – AI Form Builder for WordPress – Contact Forms, Payment Forms, Survey Form, Quiz & More 5M+ · 4.8★ (14387) wp.org #8 ↓2 4 too low 5 Nexter Blocks – Gutenberg Blocks, Page Builder & AI Website Builder 9K+ · 4.8★ (90) wp.org #6 ↑2 1 too low 6 Content Blocks Builder – Create blocks, repeater blocks with carousel, grid, popup layouts 1K+ · 5.0★ (13) wp.org #3 3 too high 7 Custom Block Builder – Lazy Blocks 20K+ · 4.9★ (80) wp.org #10 ↓1 3 too low 8 Dynamic ACF Repeater for Elementor 1K+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #2 6 too high 9 Greenshift – animation and page builder blocks 70K+ · 4.8★ (107) wp.org #11 2 too low 10 Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields 100K+ · 4.8★ (418) wp.org #16 6 too low 11 Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder 600K+ · 4.8★ (2144) wp.org #23 12 too low 12 User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor 40K+ · 4.7★ (738) wp.org #24 12 too low 13 JetFormBuilder — Dynamic Blocks Form Builder 80K+ · 4.2★ (72) wp.org #14 1 too low 14 Genesis Custom Blocks 10K+ · 4.5★ (21) wp.org #17 3 too low 15 Popup builder with Gamification, Multi-Step Popups, Page-Level Targeting, and WooCommerce Triggers 70K+ · 5.0★ (7) wp.org #13 2 too high 16 Block Logic – Full Block Display Control 300+ · 5.0★ (13) wp.org #18 ↑1 2 too low 17 Repeater Fields for WPForms 400+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #7 ↓2 10 too high 18 Blocks for ACF Fields — Display Custom Fields in the Block Editor 2K+ · 4.9★ (13) wp.org #22 ↓4 4 too low 19 Countdown Block 4K+ · 4.1★ (7) wp.org #9 ↑1 10 too high 20 Qi Blocks 60K+ · 5.0★ (5) wp.org #15 5 too high 21 Repeater2Template Widget for ACF Repeater and Elementor 100+ · 5.0★ (6) wp.org #20 ↑1 1 too high 22 Repeaterly – ACF Repeater, Flexible Content & Dynamic Tags for Elementor 600+ · 5.0★ (5) wp.org #21 ↑1 1 too high 23 Block for Font Awesome Icons – Searchable Icon Picker, SVG, FA 7 1K+ · 3.7★ (6) wp.org #19 ↑1 4 too high 24 Advanced Gallery & Repeater Fields for ACF 700+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 12 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.