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

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 “riders”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 0 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.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Riders Delivery for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #1 2 Mon Laboratoire 60+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #2 3 RouteMile for WooCommerce 30+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #3 4 ArtistKit 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #4 ↑1 5 Popular Brand Icons – Simple Icons 3K+ · 4.7★ (10) wp.org #21 ↓2 16 too low 6 Emogic Tarot Reader 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #5 ↓1 1 too high 7 Velocentra AI Logistics — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #6 1 too high 8 TrackKaro – Courier Tracking & COD 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 1 too high 9 D DGD Race Tracker — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 1 too high 10 AstroWay – Astrology, Birth Chart & Horoscope Widgets 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 1 too high 11 PTD GTFS Schedules — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 1 too high 12 BlackBoxNG Delivery for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 ↓1 1 too high 13 Dreacot Delivery — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 ↓1 1 too high 14 Codersly Courier – Smart Delivery Management — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↓1 1 too high 15 Swoove 360 — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 ↓1 1 too high 16 Fele Express Shipping for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↓1 1 too high 17 RouteLift for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↓1 1 too high 18 w3mypq — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↓1 1 too high 19 DANGO COD Order Form for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 1 too high 20 Mora Delivery for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↓2 1 too high 21 I-Soft File Manager: Foundation — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓2 1 too high 22 COD & Advance Payment for WooCommerce 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↓3 1 too low 23 VeroSoft – Integracja hurtowni — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24 ↓3 1 too low 24 Falling Shapes 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #22 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.