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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “security.txt”

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 “security.txt”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 6 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 Security.txt Manager 700+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #1 2 LLMagnet – AI Visibility & AI SEO for Claude, ChatGPT & More 500+ · 5.0★ (6) wp.org #5 3 too low 3 Polski for WooCommerce 60+ · 4.8★ (10) wp.org #6 3 too low 4 Well-Known File Manager 200+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #4 5 Generate Security.txt 300+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #2 3 too high 6 IntentDeep Virtual Files – AI-Ready: Robots.txt, Security.txt, Ads.txt, LLMS.txt 30+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #3 3 too high 7 Agentimus – AI SEO, llms.txt & MCP for AI Agents 10+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #10 3 too low 8 OPI Security Boost 70+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 1 too high 9 Nubivio Security Headers, security.txt & NIS2 Compliance for Healthcare — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 1 too high 10 DomainWarn Monitoring — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 1 too low 11 Erdo CRA Compliance – EU Cyber Resilience Act, GDPR & NIS2 Scanner for WordPress — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #9 2 too high 12 C Computernørden's Security Panel — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 13 GT – AI SEO/GEO/AEO Optimizer 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 1 too low 14 ct4gg — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 1 too low 15 Proofwright — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 1 too low 16 Shoplex – EU Compliance for WooCommerce — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #13 3 too high 17 Steuber Block Logic — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 18 S4E: Effortless & Continuous Cybersecurity — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 19 Apexly DSGVO-Check — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 20 Resilience Compliance Manager — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 21 Acid AEO — AI Readiness, Citations & Rich Data — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 22 GeniousSonu Site Checkup — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 23 ArchivioMD — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 24 Index Harmony — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24

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.