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

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 “tt”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 7 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 Text to Speech – TTS Plugin For WordPress shows at wp.org #5 but places #9 on merit, a gap of 4 places. Its 80+ installs carry it up the search order; its 4.3★ average from 6 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Text To Speech TTS Accessibility 4K+ · 4.8★ (92) wp.org #1 2 GSpeech TTS – WordPress Text To Speech Plugin 3K+ · 4.8★ (178) wp.org #2 3 WP Limit Login Attempts 10K+ · 4.6★ (300) wp.org #4 1 too low 4 TT Extra Fee Option for WooCommerce 1K+ · 3.8★ (16) wp.org #3 1 too high 5 Voice Audio Widgets – Voice recorder with Forms, AI Powered STT, TTS, Transcriptions, Language Teaching 300+ · 5.0★ (16) wp.org #6 1 too low 6 Accessibility by AllAccessible 2K+ · 5.0★ (15) wp.org #7 1 too low 7 Ticket Tailor — Event Ticketing & Registration 4K+ · 4.3★ (46) wp.org #12 5 too low 8 Text to Speech – Reinvent WP 40+ · 4.7★ (15) wp.org #9 1 too low 9 AI Text to Speech – TTS Plugin For WordPress 80+ · 4.3★ (6) wp.org #5 4 too high 10 Ai Auto Tool Content Writing Assistant All in One 40+ · 4.1★ (8) wp.org #11 1 too low 11 Accessibility Assistant – EAA ADA WCAG AODA 100+ · 4.3★ (9) wp.org #14 3 too low 12 AI Provider for OpenAI 60K+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 4 too high 13 PayCall Multisend SMS & TTS Support 66 languages 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #10 3 too high 14 AI Provider for Mistral 100+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 1 too high 15 Accessibility Assistant – Readabler 300+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 16 Ondoku – Text to Speech (TTS) 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↑1 17 AZUP Acessibilidade 50+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 2 too low 18 Speechable 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 2 too low 19 Opace AI Prompt Library & API Integration Hub for OpenAI, Claude & Gemini 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 ↑1 2 too low 20 Accessibility Audio TTS – Text To Speech for Articles — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #17 ↓4 3 too high 21 Tona TTS Reader — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 2 too low 22 Sahajanand Post to Speech — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #18 4 too high 23 AkaVoice – AI Article to Podcast — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #22 ↑2 1 too high 24 Kriti AI — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #24 ↓3

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.