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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “sermon notes”

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 “sermon notes”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 0 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 Church Content – Sermons, Events and More 3K+ · 4.9★ (49) wp.org #1 2 Advanced Sermons 1K+ · 4.7★ (22) wp.org #2 3 Church Admin 900+ · 4.7★ (17) wp.org #4 1 too low 4 Mattytap Sermons 60+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #3 1 too high 5 Sermon Library 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #5 6 IWS Interactive Church Sermon Notes — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 1 too low 7 Tushiyah Sermon Audio Manager — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #6 1 too high 8 Church Social 70+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 ↑6 1 too low 9 Servantly Sermon Archive with YouTube Import and Live Detection — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 ↓1 1 too low 10 Koinonia Link 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #8 2 too high 11 Bible Verse Tooltips – Prodigal Verse — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 ↓1 12 Sermons-NL — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 ↓1 13 PulpitKit — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↓1 14 Church Flow — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 ↓1 15 PrimeBible Verse Preview 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↓1 16 Praise Director — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 17 S Sermon Manager Import 90+ · 3.7★ (3) wp.org #19 ↓1 2 too low 18 Simple Sermon Media & Podcast 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↓1 19 Literal Word BibleTagger 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #17 ↓1 2 too high 20 Lightpost — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓1 21 G Genesis Sermons CPT 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 ↓1 22 C Church 10+ · 2.0★ (1) wp.org #22 ↓1

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.