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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “rss aggregator”

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 “rss aggregator”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 12 of the top 20. 2 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.

Ranked above its merit

RSS Chimp – Add Featured Images to WP RSS Feeds (Mailchimp, Google News, Feedly) shows at wp.org #7 but places #24 on merit, a gap of 17 places. Its 400+ installs carry it up the search order; its 2.0★ average from 1 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

merit plugin wp.org
1 WP RSS Aggregator – RSS Import, Feed to Post, Autoblogging, AI Content 40K+ · 4.5★ (563) wp.org #1 2 RSS Aggregator by Feedzy – Feed to Post, Autoblogging, News & YouTube Video Feeds Aggregator 40K+ · 4.6★ (361) wp.org #2 3 WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher 10K+ · 4.8★ (514) wp.org #3 4 EWWW Image Optimizer 1M+ · 4.8★ (1841) wp.org #4 5 F FeedWordPress 9K+ · 4.2★ (61) wp.org #5 6 Tagembed: Social Media Feeds and Customer Reviews Widget 9K+ · 3.8★ (61) wp.org #9 3 too low 7 Content Pilot – Autoblogging & Affiliate Marketing Suite 800+ · 3.6★ (36) wp.org #8 1 too low 8 Go Fetch Jobs (for WP Job Manager) 600+ · 4.5★ (28) wp.org #14 6 too low 9 Juicer.io: Effortlessly embed, curate, and aggregate social media feeds into your website 8K+ · 4.2★ (29) wp.org #13 4 too low 10 Curator.io 2K+ · 4.2★ (5) wp.org #11 1 too low 11 PressForward 100+ · 4.6★ (11) wp.org #18 ↑3 7 too low 12 FETCHUB – AI RSS Feed Aggregator & Translator 20+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #15 3 too low 13 WPMathPub 300+ · 4.2★ (5) wp.org #16 3 too low 14 SmartFrame Images 100+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #23 ↑1 9 too low 15 DaazSync – RSS News Aggregator 90+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #6 9 too high 16 Nokko RSS Aggregator — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #10 6 too high 17 Webyapp: RSS News Grid 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↓1 2 too low 18 Content Aggregator — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 ↓1 3 too low 19 N Newsknit RSS — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 ↓1 3 too low 20 Auto Robot – WP Autoblogging and RSS Feed News Aggregator 40+ · 1.8★ (10) wp.org #12 8 too high 21 AI RSS Rewriter – Feed to Post, Autoblogging & SEO 50+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24 3 too low 22 Dynamic Post – AI Content – White Paper – Peer Review – Tax & Accounting Sites 100+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #17 5 too high 23 Flockler – Social Media Embeds for WordPress 500+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #20 ↓1 3 too high 24 RSS Chimp – Add Featured Images to WP RSS Feeds (Mailchimp, Google News, Feedly) 400+ · 2.0★ (1) wp.org #7 17 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.