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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “uk feedback”

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 “uk feedback”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 8 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

Amazon Pay for WooCommerce shows at wp.org #10 but places #20 on merit, a gap of 10 places. Its 10K+ installs carry it up the search order; its 2.5★ average from 27 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

Buried gem

Everest Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form, Quiz, Survey & Custom Form Builder with AI places #9 on merit, 4.9★ from 375 reviews, but shows at wp.org #22. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Complianz GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent Banner 1M+ · 4.7★ (1667) wp.org #1 2 CookieYes – Cookie Banner for Cookie Consent (Easy to setup GDPR/CCPA Compliant Cookie Notice) 1M+ · 4.8★ (3236) wp.org #3 1 too low 3 Cookie Compliance for WordPress – Cookie Consent, GDPR & CCPA 800K+ · 4.8★ (3026) wp.org #4 1 too low 4 EU/UK VAT Validation Manager for WooCommerce 7K+ · 4.8★ (39) wp.org #2 2 too high 5 iubenda | All-in-one Compliance for GDPR / CCPA Cookie Consent + more 200K+ · 4.7★ (397) wp.org #5 6 AfterShip Tracking – All-In-One WooCommerce Order Tracking (Free plan available) 7K+ · 4.8★ (633) wp.org #6 7 reCaptcha by BestWebSoft 100K+ · 3.9★ (391) wp.org #11 4 too low 8 Contact Form by BestWebSoft – Advanced WP Contact Form Builder for WordPress 30K+ · 4.0★ (292) wp.org #12 4 too low 9 Everest Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form, Quiz, Survey & Custom Form Builder with AI 90K+ · 4.9★ (375) wp.org #22 13 too low 10 SEO Media Manager 5K+ · 4.8★ (18) wp.org #8 2 too high 11 Voice Audio Widgets – Voice recorder with Forms, AI Powered STT, TTS, Transcriptions, Language Teaching 300+ · 5.0★ (16) wp.org #9 2 too high 12 WPLP Cookie Consent – Cookie Banner & Consent Management for GDPR, CCPA & Google Consent Mode 9K+ · 4.6★ (52) wp.org #13 1 too low 13 Text To Speech TTS Accessibility 4K+ · 4.8★ (92) wp.org #17 4 too low 14 Country Code For Elementor Form Telephone Field 10K+ · 5.0★ (8) wp.org #7 7 too high 15 WP Club Manager – WordPress Sports Club Plugin 600+ · 4.7★ (40) wp.org #14 1 too high 16 Pagination by BestWebSoft – Customizable WordPress Content Splitter and Navigation Plugin 5K+ · 4.8★ (45) wp.org #16 17 Sitemap by BestWebSoft – WordPress XML Site Map Page Generator Plugin 20K+ · 4.3★ (115) wp.org #20 3 too low 18 Accessibility by AllAccessible 2K+ · 5.0★ (15) wp.org #15 3 too high 19 Chatbot for WordPress by Collect.chat ⚡️ 6K+ · 4.4★ (38) wp.org #19 20 Amazon Pay for WooCommerce 10K+ · 2.5★ (27) wp.org #10 10 too high 21 User Role by BestWebSoft – Add and Customize Roles and Capabilities in WordPress 3K+ · 3.6★ (12) wp.org #24 3 too low 22 ThreatPoint IP Reputation 10+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #18 4 too high 23 Web accessibility widget by tabnav 300+ · 4.0★ (4) wp.org #21 2 too high 24 Bulk Page Duplicator 500+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #23 1 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.