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How to order search results by date?

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  • February 23, 2017 at 9:31 am #201820
    webmonkey
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    In 2013, WordPress introduced a new search sorting mechanism that prioritized results in the following order:

    1. Results with a full sentence match in the post title are listed first.
    2. Results that include all search terms in the title, but not a full sentence match, are listed next.
    3. Results including any search terms in the title, but not all search terms or a full sentence match, are listed next.
    4. Finally, search results that include a full sentence match in the post content come last.
    5. Within each group, results are further sorted chronologically by publication date.

    I want search results to sort by Post/Page date. Are there any code snippets to make this happen by default? I am using Prose, so can add functions without editing the core files.

    February 23, 2017 at 12:34 pm #201834
    Brad Dalton
    Participant

    Try is_search with the pre_get_posts

    Tutorials for StudioPress Themes.

    February 28, 2017 at 3:34 pm #202214
    webmonkey
    Participant

    I'm not sure I want to hack into the WP search.php, although I could stick tweaks in the child theme.

    The weird thing is that WordPress' default is that posts sort by most recent in the tags archives but not, as detailed above, in the search function. I don't understand why there isn't an advanced options section covering things like search.

    February 28, 2017 at 3:58 pm #202215
    Victor Font
    Moderator

    Brad wasn't suggesting that you hack search.php. He was suggesting that you use the pre_get_posts filter to execute a function that passes the orderby to wp_query. You could also use the posts_orderby filter.

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    March 27, 2017 at 1:08 pm #203907
    sminker
    Member

    I need to do this, but I don't understand your instructions about the pre_get_posts_orderby filter. Could you point me in the right direction? I have a limited understanding of PHP.

    March 28, 2017 at 7:39 am #203957
    Victor Font
    Moderator

    https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/posts_orderby

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