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

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 “scriptures”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 2 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 Logos Reftagger 10K+ · 4.8★ (15) wp.org #2 1 too low 2 Advanced Sermons 1K+ · 4.7★ (22) wp.org #5 3 too low 3 Visual Bible Verse of the Day Widget 1K+ · 4.0★ (3) wp.org #1 2 too high 4 Bible Reading Plans 100+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #4 5 Verse of the Day Widget for WP 30+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #6 1 too low 6 VerseLinker 50+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #3 3 too high 7 Quote Blocks 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 2 too low 8 BibleBridge 20+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #7 1 too high 9 Literal Word BibleTagger 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #8 1 too high 10 Sermon Library 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 1 too low 11 TBS Scripture Tagger — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 1 too low 12 Tushiyah Sermon Audio Manager — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #10 2 too high 13 PrimeBible Verse Preview 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 14 Bible Verse Tooltips – Prodigal Verse — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 15 Lectern — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 16 Bible Daily Reading Plan 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 17 Hidden Word Bible Lessons — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 18 PulpitKit — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 19 Praise Director — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 20 B Byte Sermons — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓2 21 Servantly Sermon Archive with YouTube Import and Live Detection — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 ↓2 22 Georg Kloster Bible Reader — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 23 SermonIndex — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↓3 24 Church Flow — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24 ↓3

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.