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

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 “wasm”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 1 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.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Code Block Pro – Beautiful Syntax Highlighting 10K+ · 4.8★ (50) wp.org #1 2 TNC FlipBook 3D – PDF Flipbook, 3D Flipbook, PDF Viewer, PDF Embedder 400+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #2 3 PixGrow Image Optimizer 90+ · 4.0★ (4) wp.org #3 4 Disable Client Side Media 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #5 1 too low 5 Sahajanand Post to Speech — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #4 1 too high 6 PrintBlob – Free Custom T-Shirt Designer & Product Customizer for WooCommerce — · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #9 3 too low 7 Code Block – share beautiful code snippets readers can copy 200+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #6 1 too high 8 Speechable 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 1 too high 9 ImReso: Unlimited Target-Size Image Compressor 30+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 1 too high 10 PrinterFlo Image Optimizer — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 ↓1 11 AKDev Spline animation – Delight your users experience with 3d scroll animations. 100+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 ↓1 12 Modelora – 3D Product & Model Viewer — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 13 Flying Pigs Uploader — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 14 JAZ-X Media Provenance Inspector — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 15 Captionwright – AI Video Captions, Subtitles & Transcripts — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 16 S Scolta AI Search — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 17 Client-Side Media Everywhere — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 18 Spellmatic — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 19 LF Drive — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↑1 20 Demfilz Flipbook — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓1 21 UAIP Yet Another PDF Editor — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 22 AllTerrain MAIA — Media Asset Interface & Administration — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 23 Precise Expressions Product Customiser 3D Lite — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 24 R RIICT Intranet — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24

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.