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

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 “republish”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 12 of the top 20. 3 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.

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Ranked above its merit

Auto Republish & Permalink Manager shows at wp.org #5 but places #15 on merit, a gap of 10 places. Its 100+ 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.

Buried gem

SchedulePress – Auto Post & Publish, Auto Social Share, Schedule Posts with Editorial Calendar & Missed Schedule Post Publisher places #9 on merit, 4.6★ from 201 reviews, but shows at wp.org #16. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Yoast Duplicate Post 3M+ · 4.7★ (538) wp.org #2 1 too low 2 Republish Old Posts 2K+ · 4.3★ (12) wp.org #1 1 too high 3 Revive.so – Bulk Rewrite and Republish Blog Posts 600+ · 4.9★ (22) wp.org #3 4 Revive Social – Social Media Auto Post and Scheduling Automation Plugin 20K+ · 4.0★ (556) wp.org #7 ↓2 3 too low 5 RevivePress – Keep your Old Content Evergreen 4K+ · 4.6★ (116) wp.org #8 ↓1 3 too low 6 Duplicate PP 10K+ · 4.4★ (19) wp.org #4 2 too high 7 Social Media Auto Poster – Schedule & Publish to Buffer 7K+ · 4.5★ (125) wp.org #9 2 too low 8 WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher 10K+ · 4.8★ (514) wp.org #12 ↓2 4 too low 9 SchedulePress – Auto Post & Publish, Auto Social Share, Schedule Posts with Editorial Calendar & Missed Schedule Post Publisher 10K+ · 4.6★ (201) wp.org #16 ↓5 7 too low 10 Content Update Scheduler 2K+ · 4.3★ (12) wp.org #6 4 too high 11 Intagrate Lite 4K+ · 4.1★ (27) wp.org #10 ↓2 1 too high 12 Social Media Auto Poster – Schedule & Publish to Hootsuite 200+ · 4.1★ (15) wp.org #19 ↓2 7 too low 13 Duplicate Post – duplicate pages, copy content, clone posts 5K+ · 4.7★ (7) wp.org #14 1 too low 14 PressForward 100+ · 4.6★ (11) wp.org #17 ↓3 3 too low 15 A Auto Republish & Permalink Manager 100+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #5 ↓1 10 too high 16 Social Post Flow – Social Media Automation, Scheduling, Scheduler, Posting & Auto Post 200+ · 4.2★ (10) wp.org #20 ↓5 4 too low 17 KBucket: Your Curated Content in WordPress 10+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #23 ↓3 6 too low 18 Unstale – Refresh Old Posts with AI, Fact-Check & Republish 100+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 5 too high 19 RepublishAI – WordPress SEO Plugin that Grows Organic Traffic on Autopilot 50+ · 4.5★ (2) wp.org #18 ↓2 1 too high 20 Duplicate Post by AIOSEO – Clone Posts, Duplicate Pages and Republish Content 100+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 ↑1 9 too high 21 Content Unpublisher 80+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #15 6 too high 22 Blogr.ai – SEO Article Auto-Publisher 40+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24 ↓3 2 too low 23 oik batchmove 60+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #21 ↓3 2 too high 24 Smart Forms & Calculators By Embed Sheets 100+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #22 ↓3 2 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.