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

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 “vercel”, we and wp.org disagree 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 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

Static Posts for Twitter – Embed x.com Tweets without an iframe shows at wp.org #2 but places #6 on merit, a gap of 4 places. Its 100+ 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

Oliver POS – WooCommerce POS for iPhone, iPad & Android places #1 on merit, 4.2★ from 90 reviews, but shows at wp.org #5. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Oliver POS – WooCommerce POS for iPhone, iPad & Android 700+ · 4.2★ (90) wp.org #5 4 too low 2 Vercel AI Gateway Provider 200+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #1 1 too high 3 TheDock Media – Image Optimizer: Compress Images, Convert to WebP & AVIF 500+ · 5.0★ (5) wp.org #6 ↑1 3 too low 4 CommerceBird – AI Support & Sales Agents, Helpdesk and B2B for WooCommerce 400+ · 5.0★ (7) wp.org #7 ↓1 3 too low 5 HTML Page Publisher 500+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #4 1 too high 6 Static Posts for Twitter – Embed x.com Tweets without an iframe 100+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #2 4 too high 7 AI Provider for Vercel AI Gateway 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #3 4 too high 8 GT Link Manager 100+ · 5.0★ (3) wp.org #11 ↓1 3 too low 9 Headless Deploy Panel for Vercel — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 1 too high 10 FocusWeb AI Visibility 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 11 Unlimited Photos – Unsplash images 200+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #9 2 too high 12 ToolDocs™ 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 13 Settings for WooNuxt 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 ↑2 1 too low 14 J JiaDesign Custom Login 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↓4 1 too low 15 MatrixMap – Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, Store Locator & World Maps 200+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #13 ↓1 2 too high 16 DevDome Country Blocker: Geo Blocking, GeoIP Block 300+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↓3 1 too low 17 Decouplix Previews & Smart Purge — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↓4 2 too low 18 CloudSync Master – Offload Media to S3, Cloudflare R2 & Google Cloud 20+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #16 ↓3 2 too high 19 HeadlessNext Connector — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 ↓4 2 too low 20 Chat33 – Social Media Auto Post & Comment to DM — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 ↓3 2 too low 21 SpamLens: Jev AI Spam Protection for Comments and Contact Form 7 — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↓3 2 too low 22 Aouwal Static Site Export – Static Site Generator — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #18 4 too high 23 NexWordX — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24 1 too low 24 Project LLMs.txt – AI SEO & llms.txt for WordPress & WooCommerce — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #20 ↓2 4 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.