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Honest rankings: “social feed”

WordPress.org search rewards raw install count with no ceiling, so the biggest install bases float to the top regardless of quality signals. Here's what searchers actually see, next to a merit ranking that caps the install factor and weights ratings by review volume. How this works →

Install-weight distortion

Inavii Social Feed – Live Social Proof Gallery sits at wp.org #2 but earns only #20 on merit , 94% of its ranking comes from install count alone, on 9K+ installs at just 5.0★.

Buried gem

ElementsKit Elementor Addons – Advanced Widgets & Templates Addons for Elementor deserves #2 on merit but wp.org shows it at #19 , 4.9★ from 2023 reviews, buried by lower-quality plugins with bigger install counts.

wp.org merit plugin Δ
1 — #1 Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed – Easy Social Feeds Plugin 1M+ · 4.9★ (4344) 0 2 #20 Inavii Social Feed – Live Social Proof Gallery 9K+ · 5.0★ (16) +18 3 #8 Social Feed Gallery 80K+ · 4.5★ (302) +5 4 #10 Spotlight Social Feeds – Block, Shortcode, and Widget 60K+ · 4.7★ (169) +6 5 #19 Widgets for Social Photo Feed 10K+ · 4.7★ (25) +14 6 #7 Product Feed Manager for WooCommerce – CTX Feed – Support 220+ Shopping & Social Channels 70K+ · 4.6★ (824) +1 7 #4 Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress 200K+ · 4.7★ (1504) -3 8 #12 WP Social Ninja – Embed Social Feeds, User Reviews & Chat Widgets 30K+ · 4.8★ (70) +4 9 #6 Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery and Post Feed for WordPress 30K+ · 4.6★ (501) -3 10 #11 Feed Them Social – Social Media Feeds, Video, and Photo Galleries 20K+ · 4.7★ (638) +1 11 #18 WPZOOM Social Feed Widget & Block 60K+ · 4.3★ (48) +7 12 #9 Buttonizer – Social Media Share Buttons, Social Icons, & Social Feeds 40K+ · 4.8★ (395) -3 13 #3 Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons 100K+ · 4.8★ (5333) -10 14 #22 Tagembed Social Feeds Widget 10K+ · 3.8★ (60) +8 15 #14 Reviews Feed – Add Testimonials and Customer Reviews From Google Reviews, Yelp, TripAdvisor, and More 100K+ · 4.3★ (32) -1 16 #23 My Social Feeds – Social Feeds Embedder Plugin for WP 400+ · 5.0★ (1) +7 17 #5 Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons 10K+ · 4.9★ (1911) -12 18 #16 Simple Social Icons 100K+ · 4.3★ (92) -2 19 #2 ElementsKit Elementor Addons – Advanced Widgets & Templates Addons for Elementor 1M+ · 4.9★ (2023) -17 20 #17 Bit Social – Social Media Auto Poster and Scheduler 6K+ · 4.5★ (36) -3 21 ↑1 #24 Widgets for Social Post Feed 400+ · 5.0★ (1) +3 22 ↑1 #15 Social Slider Feed – Social Media Feed & Gallery Widgets 20K+ · 3.9★ (126) -7 23 ↓2 #13 Social Media Auto Poster – Schedule & Publish to Buffer 7K+ · 4.5★ (123) -10 24 #21 WebToffee WooCommerce Product Feeds – Google Shopping, Pinterest, TikTok Ads, & More 2K+ · 4.8★ (27) -3

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.