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

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 “translatepress”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 13 of the top 20. 2 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

TranslateX for TranslatePress shows at wp.org #5 but places #22 on merit, a gap of 17 places. Its 300+ 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.

Buried gem

CookieYes – Cookie Banner for Cookie Consent (Easy to setup GDPR/CCPA Compliant Cookie Notice) places #12 on merit, 4.8★ from 3236 reviews, but shows at wp.org #20. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation 400K+ · 4.7★ (1667) wp.org #1 2 Translate WordPress with GTranslate 900K+ · 4.9★ (4962) wp.org #2 ↑1 3 Product Feed PRO for WooCommerce by AdTribes – Product Feeds for WooCommerce 80K+ · 4.7★ (1071) wp.org #6 3 too low 4 Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings 4M+ · 4.8★ (7519) wp.org #8 ↓1 4 too low 5 Customer Reviews for WooCommerce 80K+ · 4.8★ (1539) wp.org #9 4 too low 6 AI Translation For TranslatePress 10K+ · 4.8★ (69) wp.org #3 ↓1 3 too high 7 Elementor Website Builder – more than just a page builder 10M+ · 4.5★ (7323) wp.org #7 ↑1 8 LocoAI – Auto Translate for Loco Translate 70K+ · 4.9★ (642) wp.org #14 ↓3 6 too low 9 301 Redirects – Redirect Manager 300K+ · 4.7★ (578) wp.org #12 ↓2 3 too low 10 Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense 90K+ · 4.9★ (1463) wp.org #13 3 too low 11 Newsletter – Send awesome emails from WordPress 200K+ · 4.6★ (1205) wp.org #11 12 CookieYes – Cookie Banner for Cookie Consent (Easy to setup GDPR/CCPA Compliant Cookie Notice) 1M+ · 4.8★ (3236) wp.org #20 ↓6 8 too low 13 The SEO Framework – Fast, Automated, Effortless. 200K+ · 4.9★ (380) wp.org #15 2 too low 14 Contextual Related Posts 50K+ · 4.8★ (201) wp.org #18 4 too low 15 Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) 200K+ · 5.0★ (423) wp.org #24 ↓3 9 too low 16 Content Aware Sidebars – Fastest Widget Area Plugin 30K+ · 4.9★ (724) wp.org #22 6 too low 17 GDPR Cookie Compliance – Cookie Banner, Cookie Consent, Cookie Notice for CCPA, EU Cookie Law 300K+ · 4.6★ (205) wp.org #19 ↓6 2 too low 18 Dynamic XML Sitemaps Generator for Google 20K+ · 4.7★ (47) wp.org #17 ↓2 1 too high 19 Toolkit for Polylang – Translation Inspector & Duplicate Content 10K+ · 4.5★ (33) wp.org #23 ↑1 4 too low 20 HHG for TranslatePress 1K+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #4 16 too high 21 MJDD Sidrena Cijena 700+ · 5.0★ (8) wp.org #21 ↑1 22 TranslateX for TranslatePress 300+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #5 17 too high 23 Hollisho Integration with DeepSeek for TranslatePress 200+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #16 ↓4 7 too high 24 Hybrid AI Translator for TranslatePress 30+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #10 ↑7 14 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.