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

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 player”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 1 of the top 20. 2 plugins are 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 the install base is organic or host-pushed, and its risk of being pulled.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Advanced Sermons 1K+ · 4.7★ (22) wp.org #1 2 Automatic YouTube Gallery – Embed Auto-Updating YouTube Video Galleries, Feeds, Playlists & Channels 9K+ · 4.8★ (31) wp.org #3 1 too low 3 Cue by AudioTheme.com 5K+ · 4.7★ (36) wp.org #6 3 too low 4 Mattytap Sermons 60+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #2 2 too high 5 Sermon Library 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #5 6 Tushiyah Sermon Audio Manager — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #4 2 too high 7 Blocks For Sermon Manager — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 8 iRadeo Audio Player — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 9 Servantly Sermon Archive with YouTube Import and Live Detection — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 10 B Byte Sermons — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 11 Kanzelbuch – Predigtarchiv für FeG-Gemeinden — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 12 SermonIndex — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 ↓1 13 Church Flow — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↓1 14 Lectern — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 ↓1 15 Easy TubeCasting — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↓1 16 SoftIcon Ready-Made Template — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 17 MasjidOS — Mosque Management Plugin for WordPress — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↓2 18 S Sermon Manager Import 90+ · 3.7★ (3) wp.org #20 ↓2 2 too low 19 Sermon Embed 40+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↓2 1 too high 20 Simple Sermon Media & Podcast 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↓2 1 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.