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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “wordpress push”

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 “wordpress push”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 14 of the top 20. 4 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.

Ranked above its merit

PushAlert – Web Push Notifications for WordPress and WooCommerce shows at wp.org #8 but places #19 on merit, a gap of 11 places. Its 1K+ installs carry it up the search order; its 4.6★ average from 8 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

Buried gem

WP STAGING – Backups & Restore, Migration & Clone Plugin – Cloud Backups, Scheduled Backups places #7 on merit, 4.8★ from 2470 reviews, but shows at wp.org #18. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 OneSignal – Web Push Notifications 60K+ · 4.3★ (360) wp.org #1 2 GTM4WP – A Google Tag Manager (GTM) plugin for WordPress 700K+ · 4.5★ (155) wp.org #3 1 too low 3 LiteSpeed Cache 7M+ · 4.8★ (2778) wp.org #6 3 too low 4 WP 2FA – Two-factor authentication for WordPress 100K+ · 4.7★ (184) wp.org #7 ↑1 3 too low 5 Page Speed Optimizer: HTTP/2 Push, Async JavaScript, and Defer CSS 6K+ · 4.7★ (64) wp.org #5 6 Web Push Notifications – Webpushr 10K+ · 4.7★ (63) wp.org #4 2 too high 7 WP STAGING – Backups & Restore, Migration & Clone Plugin – Cloud Backups, Scheduled Backups 100K+ · 4.8★ (2470) wp.org #18 ↑1 11 too low 8 Brevo – Email, SMS, Web Push, Chat, and more. 100K+ · 4.1★ (284) wp.org #11 3 too low 9 WPvivid — Backup, Migration & Staging 900K+ · 4.9★ (1568) wp.org #16 ↑2 7 too low 10 Push Notifications for WP – Self Hosted Web Push Notifications 6K+ · 4.2★ (5) wp.org #2 8 too high 11 Cookie Compliance for WordPress – Cookie Consent, GDPR & CCPA 800K+ · 4.8★ (3026) wp.org #20 ↑1 9 too low 12 SendPulse Free Web Push 500+ · 5.0★ (9) wp.org #9 3 too high 13 Perfecty Push Notifications 3K+ · 4.6★ (42) wp.org #17 4 too low 14 Custom Post Type UI 1M+ · 4.6★ (276) wp.org #23 9 too low 15 MxChat – AI Chatbot & Content Generation for WordPress 2K+ · 5.0★ (31) wp.org #12 ↑1 3 too high 16 Push Notification for Post and BuddyPress 200+ · 4.7★ (24) wp.org #14 ↑2 2 too high 17 PushEngage – Web Push Notifications, WooCommerce Automation & Chat Widget 8K+ · 4.3★ (37) wp.org #15 2 too high 18 Gravitec.net – Web Push Notifications 1K+ · 4.4★ (21) wp.org #13 ↑1 5 too high 19 PushAlert – Web Push Notifications for WordPress and WooCommerce 1K+ · 4.6★ (8) wp.org #8 ↓1 11 too high 20 iZooto – Web Push Notifications 900+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #10 10 too high 21 Push Notifications by LaraPush 4K+ · 4.7★ (13) wp.org #21 ↑1 22 INDIGITALL – Instant Chat, Web Push Notifications 90+ · 4.8★ (12) wp.org #19 ↑1 3 too high 23 WhoKnew Signal – Self-Hosted Web Push Notifications & PWA 30+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #22 ↑1 1 too high 24 Web Push Notifications by Aimtell 40+ · 5.0★ (1) 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.