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

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 “wisdom”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 0 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 Plugin Detective – Troubleshooting Conflicts 5K+ · 4.0★ (49) wp.org #1 2 Divine Astro 100+ · 4.6★ (11) wp.org #3 1 too low 3 Bible Reading Plans 100+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #2 1 too high 4 Pixel Gallery Addons for Elementor 4K+ · 4.8★ (5) wp.org #6 2 too low 5 QuoteFrameShare – Beautiful Blockquotes with Citation, Copy & Social Share 20+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #5 6 Wisdom Journal Manager – Research Paper/Process Management 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #4 2 too high 7 Wisdom Plug — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 8 TW Post Modifier Tracker 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 9 TW Form Entry Viewer for WPForms 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 10 TechnologyWisdom File Editor Access Lock 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 1 too low 11 TW Login Alert & Tracker 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 1 too low 12 VR-Frases 30+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #10 2 too high 13 Visitor Management System – Office Visitor Check-In Logbook 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↑2 14 Reactflow Visitor Recording and Heatmaps 200+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 ↓1 15 Fale Hafez 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↓1 16 FixQuotes Quote of the Day 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 17 Solomon Daily Wisdom — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 18 TechnologyWisdom Upload Guard — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↑1 19 TW Simple Slider — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↑1 20 TW Replace Cart Button with Learn More for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓2 21 TW Enable/Disable Revisions for Custom Post Types — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 ↑2 22 TW Hide Price & Add to Cart for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 23 TW Bulk Price Manager for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↓2 24 TW Link Expiration Manager — · 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.