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

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 “whisper”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 1 of the top 20. 2 plugins are pushed down for signals wp.org ignores: errors, a host-installed base, or removal risk.

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.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Link Whisper Free 30K+ · 4.2★ (150) wp.org #1 2 HTML5 Audio Player – The Ultimate No-Code Podcast, MP3 & Audio Player 10K+ · 4.6★ (169) wp.org #3 1 too low 3 WPify Woo – Withdrawal, CRN/VAT, QR payments, Heureka and more for WooCommerce 5K+ · 4.9★ (49) wp.org #2 1 too high 4 GSpeech TTS – WordPress Text To Speech Plugin 3K+ · 4.8★ (178) wp.org #6 ↓1 2 too low 5 Bulk Page Generator – LPagery 3K+ · 5.0★ (31) wp.org #5 ↓1 6 Voice Audio Widgets – Voice recorder with Forms, AI Powered STT, TTS, Transcriptions, Language Teaching 300+ · 5.0★ (16) wp.org #4 ↓1 2 too high 7 Text to Speech – Reinvent WP 40+ · 4.7★ (15) wp.org #7 8 SurfLink – Link Manager & Backup Restore 10+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #8 ↓2 9 Speechable 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 ↓1 10 MaxSellora – AI Chat That Converts Visitors to Buyers — · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #15 ↓2 5 too low 11 Partyline: Reader-Submitted Stories for Local News and Magazines 40+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 ↓1 1 too high 12 Nik Voice Ticketing AI — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 ↓1 1 too high 13 Captionwright – AI Video Captions, Subtitles & Transcripts — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 1 too high 14 mwangip Video Captions — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↓2 1 too high 15 DMValdez Link Builder — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 ↓2 1 too high 16 Opace AI Prompt Library & API Integration Hub for OpenAI, Claude & Gemini 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↓2 17 Indigothorn Internal Links — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 18 OZY AI Agent — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↓2 19 Zen Cortext – Your AI SDR for inbound — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↓2 20 DMValdez Semantic Engine — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓2 21 ADA Compliance Guardian — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 ↓1 22 Connector for VozCaster — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↓4 1 too low 23 Bharti Subtitles — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24 ↓2 1 too low 24 Speech to Text for WPForms 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 ↓1 2 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.