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

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 “tencent”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 2 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

AI Chatbot, Agents & MCP for Amazon Bedrock shows at wp.org #16 but places #21 on merit, a gap of 5 places. Its — installs carry it up the search order; its 5.0★ average from 1 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

merit plugin signals wp.org

All-in-one Sticky Floating Contact Form, Call, Click to Chat, and 50+ Social Icon Tabs – My Sticky Elements 40K+ · 4.9★ (542) wp.org #3 2 too low 2

Sync QCloud COS 500+ · 5.0★ (6) thin reviews wp.org #1 1 too high 3

Mine CloudVod 70+ · 4.6★ (10) thin reviews wp.org #2 1 too high 4

Meks Smart Social Widget 10K+ · 4.6★ (10) closure risk thin reviewsstale but ranked wp.org #6 ↓2 2 too low 5

JennyStudio GEO Factory 20+ · 0.0★ (0) thin reviewslow rating, top placement wp.org #4 1 too high 6

Naibabiji Cache Purger for EdgeOne 20+ · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #7 ↓1 1 too high 9

Rampex.io Payment Gateway 30+ · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #8 ↓1 1 too high 10

LangRouter for TranslatePress — · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #9 1 too high 11

[凹凸曼]同步图片附件到腾讯云COS — · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #10 ↓2 1 too high 12

leosp — · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #11 ↓1 1 too high 13

EdgeUpload – Direct Cloud Upload for Forms — · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #12 ↓1 1 too high 14

CosmautDL 10+ · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #13 ↓1 1 too high 15

Knocket — Live Chat Widget — · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #14 ↓1 1 too high 16

HHG for TranslatePress 1K+ · 5.0★ (2) thin reviews wp.org #23 ↓1 7 too low 17

Lion Social Share — · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #15 ↓1 2 too high 18

[凹凸曼]AI知识库 — · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #17 ↓2 1 too high 19 N Npcink Site Toolbox — · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #18 ↓1 1 too high 20

Kinetix Messaging by Ppros — · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #19 ↓1 1 too high 21

AI Chatbot, Agents & MCP for Amazon Bedrock — · 5.0★ (1) thin reviews wp.org #16 5 too high 22

VCNS Security Automation Manager — · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #21 ↓1 1 too high 23

AI Rank Suite — AI Search, llms.txt, Schema & SEO — · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #22 ↓1 1 too high 24 S Sociality 1K+ · 0.0★ (0) thin reviews wp.org #24 ↓1

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.