Plugin Pulse Beta
← Rankings

wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “streaming video”

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 “streaming video”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 9 of the top 20. 4 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 it throws errors on current PHP, whether the install base is organic or host-pushed, and its risk of being pulled.

Ranked above its merit

Broadcast Live Video – Live Streaming : WebRTC, HLS, RTSP, RTMP shows at wp.org #9 but places #22 on merit, a gap of 13 places. Its 400+ installs carry it up the search order; its 2.7★ average from 14 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

Buried gem

Videopack places #9 on merit, 4.8★ from 63 reviews, but shows at wp.org #16. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 WpStream – Live Streaming, Video on Demand, Pay Per View 3K+ · 4.8★ (78) wp.org #1 2 HTML5 Video Player – embed fast, responsive videos with ease 20K+ · 4.6★ (195) wp.org #2 3 All-in-One Video Gallery – Video Player & Galleries for YouTube, Vimeo & Self-Hosted Videos 20K+ · 4.8★ (136) wp.org #3 4 Feeds for YouTube (YouTube video, channel, and gallery plugin) 100K+ · 4.8★ (205) wp.org #5 1 too low 5 Presto Player 100K+ · 4.8★ (346) wp.org #7 ↑1 2 too low 6 EmbedPress 100K+ · 4.8★ (307) wp.org #8 ↑2 2 too low 7 Video Player Block – play videos beautifully on any device 2K+ · 5.0★ (8) wp.org #4 3 too high 8 Jetpack VideoPress 7K+ · 4.0★ (16) wp.org #6 2 too high 9 Videopack 10K+ · 4.8★ (63) wp.org #16 7 too low 10 Masteriyo LMS – LMS Course Builder, Quizzes & Certificates 6K+ · 4.8★ (184) wp.org #14 4 too low 11 Super Video player – Fully Customizable Video Player with Playlist 2K+ · 4.2★ (30) wp.org #10 ↓1 1 too high 12 Album Gallery for Photo & Video 4K+ · 4.8★ (26) wp.org #11 1 too high 13 Cloudinary – Deliver Images and Videos at Scale 5K+ · 4.0★ (64) wp.org #21 8 too low 14 Automatic YouTube Gallery – Embed Auto-Updating YouTube Video Galleries, Feeds, Playlists & Channels 9K+ · 4.8★ (31) wp.org #24 10 too low 15 FV Flowplayer Video Player 10K+ · 4.4★ (90) wp.org #19 4 too low 16 FluentPlayer – Video Player With Forms & Lead Capture 2K+ · 4.7★ (14) wp.org #18 2 too low 17 MxChat – AI Chatbot & Content Generation for WordPress 2K+ · 5.0★ (31) wp.org #23 6 too low 18 Cincopa video and media plug-in 1K+ · 2.8★ (26) wp.org #15 3 too high 19 VdoCipher: Secure Video Player and Hosting 2K+ · 4.2★ (14) wp.org #20 1 too low 20 Movie Engine – OTT Streaming Platform for Movies & TV Series 100+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #12 8 too high 21 Lean Player – Video and Audio Player with Playlist for WordPress, Elementor and Gutenberg 2K+ · 4.7★ (6) wp.org #13 8 too high 22 Broadcast Live Video – Live Streaming : WebRTC, HLS, RTSP, RTMP 400+ · 2.7★ (14) wp.org #9 ↓2 13 too high 23 SmartVideo – Video Player and CDN 1K+ · 4.1★ (19) wp.org #22 1 too high 24 Mux Video Uploader 90+ · 4.0★ (2) wp.org #17 7 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.