In my personnal case, I lost like 95% of my downloads because my plugins lost 3 or 4 pages of search results.
*Looks*
I’m not trying to be judgmental but I do not think that’s a valid statement. What are you trying to accomplish by having plugins in the WordPress repository?
If it’s to help users then just keep doing what you are doing. People find plugins using many ways and the search hits are just a part of that. Looking at your plugins and the installation numbers it looks like many of your plugins are for a specific and limited use case.
]]>Like you said, we could understand the “less relevant” for the developper and not for the users and it could sounds selfish.
But when you search “table” and you find for example “WooCommerce” on the first page, it is like : “Please ? I need to go to the grocery store.” and as an answer they propose you an helicopter with autopilot instead of telling you the address.
When you search “Clean Database”, you will find on the first page a Contact Form plugin, a Guestbook plugin or a Comments plugin.
I talked about my personnal case for an example, but I didn’t do it because I’m complaining, try to search anything and you will certainly find something close to irrelevant on the first page.
Best Regards,
PluginlySpeaking
By searching a keyword, we will find a lot of irrelevant plugins
That’s probably true. So, don’t search keywords. Real users don’t do that. They search for solutions to their problems, not for keywords.
]]>Real users don’t do that.
Huh? Are you for real! I’m a “real user” and I use the keyword search because ummm I thought it would be umm relevant.
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