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

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 “scoreboard”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 0 of the top 20. 1 plugin is 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.

merit plugin wp.org
1 AnWP Football Leagues 700+ · 4.9★ (14) wp.org #1 2 phpinfo() WP – Site Health, PHP Compatibility & Server Audit 3K+ · 4.5★ (8) wp.org #4 ↑1 2 too low 3 Post Auto Vertical Scrolling 100+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #5 ↓1 2 too low 4 Scoreboard for HTML5 Games Lite 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #2 2 too high 5 Scoreboard UI 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #3 2 too high 6 Download PDF After Submit Form 400+ · 3.2★ (6) wp.org #7 ↓1 1 too low 7 Auto Refresh Post & Page 80+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #8 1 too low 8 Simple Font Resizer 100+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #6 ↑1 2 too high 9 M mlab4195 Baseball Scoreboard — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 10 SPOSCOR Core 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 11 Post Date Range Filter 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 12 Knights of Columbus – State — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 13 SPOSCOR Baseball — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 14 WEBA Score Display — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 15 SPOSCOR Basketball — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 16 SPOSCOR Football & Soccer — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 17 SPOSCOR Padel — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 18 Career Section — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 19 Feedback Form Users — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 20 H HU Challenge — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↑1 21 Table Tennis Tournament for Clubs — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 ↓2 1 too low 22 Worth Sporting – Sports Scores and Odds 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 1 too low 23 CitedSpy – AI SEO & AEO Tracker to Beat Competitors in AI Answers — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24 1 too low 24 Meta-box GalleryMeta — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #21 ↑1 3 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.