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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “tally”

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

Buried gem

Bit Flows: AI Agent Automation & Integrations for Forms, CRM, eCommerce, Google Sheets, and More places #1 on merit, 4.9★ from 64 reviews, but shows at wp.org #6. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Bit Flows: AI Agent Automation & Integrations for Forms, CRM, eCommerce, Google Sheets, and More 1K+ · 4.9★ (64) wp.org #6 ↓1 5 too low 2 WP Eventbrite Embedded Checkout – Ticket Checkout Block, Popup & Elementor Widget 700+ · 4.8★ (4) wp.org #3 1 too low 3 Embed for Tally – Forms Block, Popup & Elementor Widget 30+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #1 2 too high 4 SurveyX Builder – Survey, Poll, Quiz & Feedback Form 2K+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #4 ↓1 5 MC Visitor Tally 100+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #2 3 too high 6 Total User Count Shortcode 200+ · 4.5★ (8) wp.org #10 ↓1 4 too low 7 Quizably – Quiz Maker, Personality Quiz & Survey Builder 200+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #5 ↓1 2 too high 8 MenuMaster – Interactive Mobile-First Restaurant Menu Plugin for WooCommerce 40+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #7 ↓1 1 too high 9 DineKit – Restaurant Menu, Online Ordering, Table Reservations & POS 70+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #8 ↓1 1 too high 10 Polls For ActivityPub 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 ↓1 1 too high 11 Freshet Unused Media 30+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 1 too low 12 BeastFeedbacks — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↓2 1 too low 13 ZestyLife Resident Voting — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 ↓2 1 too low 14 Skybee Booking for Calendly – Booking Block, Popup & Elementor Widget — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #11 ↓1 3 too high 15 Stocktake – Physical Inventory Count, Cycle Count & Inventory Audit for WooCommerce 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↓2 16 Retention Core: Subscription Cancel Saver for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↓2 17 User Collections for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↓2 18 Glovario – Reusable Site Content — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 19 Manfi Expense Tracker — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↓3 20 Attributer: UTM & Lead Source Tracking for WPForms, Gravity Forms, Contact Form 7 & More 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓3 21 Zaplane – AI Agent Automation & Workflow Builder — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 22 S ShopNotify – Personalized Cart Recovery for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 ↓4 23 Converly: Conversion Tracking for Gravity Forms, WPForms, Contact Form 7 & More — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↓4 24 DominoForm – Advanced Contact Form, Polls, Survey & Quiz Builder — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24 ↓4

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.