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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “sound pack”

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 “sound pack”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 11 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.

Ranked above its merit

Click Action Sounds – Click Sound Effects for Buttons, Links & Forms shows at wp.org #3 but places #12 on merit, a gap of 9 places. Its 20+ installs carry it up the search order; its 0.0★ average from 0 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots 10K+ · 4.8★ (142) wp.org #2 1 too low 2 Real3D Flipbook – 3D Flipbook, PDF Flipbook, PDF Viewer, PDF Embedder 10K+ · 4.5★ (11) wp.org #1 1 too high 3 MP3 Audio Player – Music Player, Podcast Player & Radio by Sonaar 20K+ · 4.8★ (302) wp.org #5 2 too low 4 Accessibility Widget by OneTap – Easy One-Click Accessibility Toolbar 60K+ · 4.9★ (80) wp.org #4 ↓1 5 LocoAI – Auto Translate for Loco Translate 70K+ · 4.9★ (642) wp.org #7 2 too low 6 Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons 10K+ · 4.9★ (1911) wp.org #9 3 too low 7 FancyBox for WordPress 30K+ · 4.6★ (92) wp.org #8 ↓1 1 too low 8 WCFM – Frontend Manager for WooCommerce 20K+ · 4.5★ (286) wp.org #11 3 too low 9 Xpro Addons — 150+ Widgets for Elementor 40K+ · 4.4★ (28) wp.org #14 5 too low 10 AI Alt Text Generator for Images – AltTextLab 100+ · 5.0★ (9) wp.org #12 2 too low 11 ThriveDesk – Live Chat, AI Chatbot, Helpdesk & Customer Support Ticket System 100+ · 4.5★ (14) wp.org #16 5 too low 12 Click Action Sounds – Click Sound Effects for Buttons, Links & Forms 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #3 ↑1 9 too high 13 WaveSurfer-WP 400+ · 5.0★ (11) wp.org #20 ↓1 7 too low 14 Piano Block 100+ · 4.5★ (2) wp.org #6 8 too high 15 Set Price Note (Units, Offers, Editions) for WooCommerce 600+ · 4.7★ (3) wp.org #10 5 too high 16 AI Builder – Generate pages, blocks, images & translate with AI 500+ · 3.7★ (6) wp.org #13 3 too high 17 Formidable Forms Signature Online Contract Automation 200+ · 4.0★ (2) wp.org #15 2 too high 18 Really Simple Featured Audio – Sell Music, Samples & Audio Products with WooCommerce 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 1 too high 19 Digiter Builder Lite — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 2 too low 20 OrderAlerts New Order Notifications for WooCommerce 90+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 ↓2 2 too low 21 DigiFest 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 2 too low 22 FLUX PDF FLIP 20+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #18 4 too high 23 Everyone Accessibility Suite – Free WCAG Accessibility Widget & Toolkit 90+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24 ↓3 1 too low 24 Maestro: The Inline Admin Menu Editor 30+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #19 5 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.