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

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 “revalidate”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 4 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

ProRank SEO shows at wp.org #14 but places #18 on merit, a gap of 4 places. Its 10+ 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 PWA 20K+ · 4.3★ (27) wp.org #4 ↑1 3 too low 2 SuperFlare Cache – Cloudflare Cache & Auto-Purging 60+ · 4.4★ (9) wp.org #6 ↑1 4 too low 3 Clear Cache Everywhere 1K+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #1 2 too high 4 HTML Page Publisher 500+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #3 ↑1 1 too high 5 Instant Back/Forward 10K+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #2 3 too high 6 ABCode Cache Warmer 100+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #5 ↑1 1 too high 7 Content Revalidation Tracker 10+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #7 ↑1 8 On-Demand Revalidation 80+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 1 too low 9 Headless 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 ↑1 1 too low 10 Fastly 1K+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #8 ↑2 2 too high 11 Vulnerability Monitor for the EU Cyber Resilience Act 50+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 ↑3 12 SDAweb Social Galleri Feed 30+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 13 Headless Deploy Panel for Vercel — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 14 HeadlessNext Connector — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↑1 1 too low 15 A Artificial Poets Reusable Components CDN — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↑1 1 too low 16 WDS MCP Content Manager 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↑5 1 too low 17 Naibabiji Cache Purger for EdgeOne 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↑1 1 too low 18 ProRank SEO 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #14 ↑1 4 too high 19 CacheArmor — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↓1 20 Tecveq PWA Toolkit — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 21 Dzine Digital Made-to-Measure Pricing for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 22 NexWordX — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 23 SazCancel – Auto-Cancel On-Hold Orders — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↓2 24 Quikc — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24 ↓1

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.