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

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 “seasonality”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 2 of the top 19.

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 Yatra – Travel Booking & Tour Operator Software 600+ · 4.7★ (23) wp.org #2 1 too low 2 Dashboard and Analytics for WooCommerce 70+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #1 1 too high 3 Init View Count – AI-Powered, Trending, REST API 80+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #3 4 Opace AI Scribe: SEO Content Creator & Humanizer for OpenAI, Anthropic & Gemini 100+ · 5.0★ (7) wp.org #12 8 too low 5 Vunelix Financial Widgets – Cryptocurrency, Stock Ticker & Forex 20+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #4 ↑1 1 too high 6 Mawsim – Sales Goals & Marketing Calendar for WooCommerce 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #5 ↓1 1 too high 7 Sales Forecast & Inventory Prediction — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #6 1 too high 8 Georix – GEO & AI Citation — · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #15 7 too low 9 Verve AI – Inventory Forecasting for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 2 too high 10 AIRF Advanced Intelligent Restock Forecast — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 2 too high 11 Profitblue – Financial reporting for WooCommerce 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 2 too high 12 Storelens Insights for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 2 too high 13 Ovesio – Ecommerce Intelligence for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 2 too high 14 MetricQuill Search Reports — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 1 too high 15 Product Video Generator — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 1 too high 16 Palette Data Analyzer — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 17 AVAR ProductPulse — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 18 A AI Stock Predictor — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 19 Hydori SEO – AI-Powered SEO Automation — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19

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.