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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “smooth scroll jquery”

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 “smooth scroll jquery”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 10 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.

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Ranked above its merit

Fast Smooth Scroll shows at wp.org #5 but places #17 on merit, a gap of 12 places. Its 800+ installs carry it up the search order; its 5.0★ average from 3 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

Buried gem

Master Slider – Responsive Touch Slider places #9 on merit, 4.6★ from 504 reviews, but shows at wp.org #15. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 MouseWheel Smooth Scroll 90K+ · 4.5★ (44) wp.org #1 2 Page scroll to id 100K+ · 4.9★ (225) wp.org #3 1 too low 3 jQuery Smooth Scroll 10K+ · 4.5★ (47) wp.org #2 1 too high 4 WPFront Scroll Top 200K+ · 4.9★ (142) wp.org #4 5 Nexter Blocks – Gutenberg Blocks, Page Builder & AI Website Builder 9K+ · 4.8★ (90) wp.org #7 ↑5 2 too low 6 Smart Slider 3 800K+ · 4.9★ (1125) wp.org #10 4 too low 7 DearFlip – PDF Flipbook, 3D Flipbook, PDF embed, PDF viewer 200K+ · 4.9★ (194) wp.org #9 ↓1 2 too low 8 Gutenberg Essential Blocks – Page Builder for Gutenberg Blocks & Patterns 100K+ · 4.9★ (216) wp.org #13 ↑3 5 too low 9 Master Slider – Responsive Touch Slider 60K+ · 4.6★ (504) wp.org #15 ↓2 6 too low 10 Greenshift – animation and page builder blocks 70K+ · 4.8★ (107) wp.org #12 ↓1 2 too low 11 Hash Link Scroll Offset 1K+ · 5.0★ (14) wp.org #6 5 too high 12 Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 10K+ · 4.7★ (250) wp.org #17 ↑4 5 too low 13 Ajax Search Lite – Live Search & Filter 70K+ · 4.8★ (266) wp.org #22 9 too low 14 Vertical News Scroller 5K+ · 4.3★ (17) wp.org #11 ↓4 3 too high 15 Joli Table Of Contents – Table of Contents with Gutenberg Block & Shortcode 7K+ · 4.9★ (43) wp.org #23 8 too low 16 Announcer – Sticky Message Banner & Notification Bar 10K+ · 4.8★ (40) wp.org #24 ↓2 8 too low 17 F Fast Smooth Scroll 800+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #5 12 too high 18 T4B News Ticker – Responsive News Scroller, Slider, and Animations 7K+ · 4.5★ (16) wp.org #18 19 SmartParallax – Parallax Scroll Effects & Scroll Animations 100+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #8 ↑1 11 too high 20 Smoothscroller 400+ · 4.9★ (7) wp.org #20 ↓3 21 Bolt CTA Button – Floating Call Button for WordPress 2K+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #19 2 too high 22 WBD Logo Carousel For Gutenberg 600+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #14 8 too high 23 ScalingHawk Smooth Scroll (Powered by Lenis) 40+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↓1 7 too high 24 Click to top 2K+ · 2.0★ (2) wp.org #21 ↓1 3 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.