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

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 “yandex”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 11 of the top 20. 5 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

Yandex Maps for Gutenberg shows at wp.org #8 but places #20 on merit, a gap of 12 places. Its 300+ installs carry it up the search order; its 4.5★ average from 2 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

Buried gem

Security Plugin, Firewall & Malware Scanner with Auto Removal places #8 on merit, 4.8★ from 397 reviews, but shows at wp.org #15. A smaller install base keeps it further down the default search order than its quality signals alone would.

merit plugin wp.org
1 All in One SEO – AI SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Traffic (Schema, Local SEO, Sitemap & SEO Insights) 2M+ · 4.7★ (5231) wp.org #3 2 too low 2 Yandex Metrica 20K+ · 3.8★ (33) wp.org #1 ↑1 1 too high 3 FluentSMTP – WP Mail SMTP Plugin with Amazon SES, SendGrid, Mailgun, Postmark, Cloudflare, toSend, Gmail and Any SMTP 700K+ · 4.8★ (410) wp.org #4 ↑1 1 too low 4 Complianz GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent Banner 1M+ · 4.7★ (1667) wp.org #5 ↓3 1 too low 5 LocoAI – Auto Translate for Loco Translate 70K+ · 4.9★ (642) wp.org #7 2 too low 6 Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings 4M+ · 4.8★ (7519) wp.org #10 ↑2 4 too low 7 RSS for Yandex Turbo 20K+ · 4.6★ (145) wp.org #9 ↑1 2 too low 8 Security Plugin, Firewall & Malware Scanner with Auto Removal 40K+ · 4.8★ (397) wp.org #15 ↑2 7 too low 9 Maps from Yandex for Elementor 7K+ · 4.9★ (49) wp.org #6 ↑2 3 too high 10 CrawlWP SEO – Complete WordPress SEO Plugin with AI, Indexing & Search Performance 30K+ · 4.7★ (62) wp.org #11 ↑4 1 too low 11 Captcha by Yandex for Contact Form 7 3K+ · 4.6★ (5) wp.org #2 ↑2 9 too high 12 Woody Code Snippets – Insert PHP, CSS, JS, and Header/Footer Scripts 50K+ · 4.5★ (221) wp.org #18 ↑3 6 too low 13 Quads Ads Manager for Google AdSense 20K+ · 4.9★ (1087) wp.org #24 11 too low 14 YaMaps for WordPress Plugin 10K+ · 4.8★ (40) wp.org #19 5 too low 15 RSS for Yandex Zen 4K+ · 4.7★ (30) wp.org #16 1 too low 16 AI Translation For TranslatePress 10K+ · 4.8★ (69) wp.org #22 6 too low 17 AutoPoly – AI Translation For Polylang 5K+ · 4.6★ (30) wp.org #23 6 too low 18 ReCrawler 3K+ · 5.0★ (11) wp.org #20 2 too low 19 Login via Yandex – вход через Яндекс ID 100+ · 5.0★ (5) wp.org #12 ↑1 7 too high 20 Yandex Maps for Gutenberg 300+ · 4.5★ (2) wp.org #8 ↑3 12 too high 21 Yandex.Metrica 60K+ · 3.7★ (12) wp.org #17 4 too high 22 KosTeams Payments for Yandex Pay and Yandex Split for WooCommerce 100+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #13 ↓1 9 too high 23 多合一搜索自动推送管理插件-支持Baidu/Google/Bing/IndexNow/Yandex/头条 2K+ · 2.6★ (5) wp.org #21 ↑2 2 too high 24 Yandex Pay and Split 600+ · 2.3★ (3) wp.org #14 ↑2 10 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.