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

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 “yarn”, 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 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 Simple 301 Redirects by BetterLinks – Easy Redirect Manager 100K+ · 3.8★ (162) wp.org #1 2 Waymark 900+ · 5.0★ (54) wp.org #2 3 Simple JWT Login – Allows you to use JWT on REST endpoints. 4K+ · 5.0★ (47) wp.org #4 1 too low 4 FooSales – Point of Sale (POS) for WooCommerce 600+ · 3.2★ (13) wp.org #6 2 too low 5 AI + Block Editor 100+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #3 2 too high 6 VertiFeed – Vertical Media Gallery 200+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #5 1 too high 7 Convert Blocks to JSON 40+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 ↑1 8 Code Block – share beautiful code snippets readers can copy 200+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 ↓1 9 Magic Elements 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #11 ↑1 2 too low 10 Luma Product Fields 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #9 1 too high 11 Kelune CRM – Contact Management, Email Marketing, Newsletter & Marketing Automation 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #12 ↑1 1 too low 12 EasyCommerce FakerPress – Dummy & Test Data Generator for EasyCommerce — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #10 2 too high 13 Trash Post in Block Editor — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↓2 14 XC Scribe — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 15 Redirect Duplicate Posts — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 16 SQL To CPT — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 17 Trunkrs Same-Day Delivery v2 — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 18 Pictomancer Image Optimizer — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 19 Miglog – Blog Migration for Shopify — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 20 Air Asset Picker — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↑1 21 Magic Extra Field Light — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 ↓1 22 S Swift Backup — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 23 Instant Crypto Payments — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 24 S SynthSEO Publisher — · 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.