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

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 “webdesign”, 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 exovia GDPR Google Maps 4K+ · 4.6★ (11) wp.org #1 2 Swift Performance Lite 6K+ · 3.6★ (125) wp.org #3 1 too low 3 Text to Speech – TTSWP 200+ · 5.0★ (6) wp.org #2 ↑2 1 too high 4 kombat-optimizer 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #4 ↓2 5 Image AI Labels 80+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #5 6 SEO Flow by LupsOnline 200+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 ↓1 1 too low 7 UpdatePulse Server 30+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #6 ↑1 1 too high 8 Simple Event Manager 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 9 Bandboss' Upcoming Events Manager 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 ↑4 10 Add TinyMCE Blockquote Cite 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 ↓1 11 The Viking Auto Dismiss 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 ↓1 12 Mementor Core 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 ↓1 13 Meindl Ordner — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↓1 14 sicherheitstraining24.de Termine & Buchung — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 15 Formwandler Notifications — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 16 Freequency Booking Widget for TidyCal — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 17 Ordnerwerk – Medienordner für die Mediathek — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↓1 18 Auto Collapse for Flexible Fields 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↓1 19 GDPR Compliant Google Maps — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓1 1 too low 20 Auto Attribute Assigner — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 ↓1 2 too low 21 BST DSGVO Cookie 5K+ · 4.0★ (4) wp.org #21 ↓1 22 EMN FAQ & Accordion Block — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #19 ↓1 3 too high 23 ReVivify Social — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↓1 24 EU tyre label shortcode 80+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #24 ↓1

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.