If orderby undefined, alter get_posts to defer to WP_Query's default

[peterwilsoncc]

If the argument is undefined, defer get_posts orderby & order to that of WP_Query's.

For search strings, this will order posts by relevance. In other cases it will have no effect.

[SirLouen]

@peterwilsoncc afaik, currently it orders by descending date by default unconditionally.

Can you elaborate on the reasoning behind this enhancement proposal, for documentation purposes and if someone looks back into the history of changes, understands how we got to this conclusion?

It has not had any traction for one decade, so it seems this doesn't seem too demanded or maybe is not required any more. Personally, I cannot figure out your intentions here.

[peterwilsoncc]

@SirLouen Gosh, I opened this a while ago...

For search queries, the default sort order is by relevance, see ​WP_Query code reference, rather than by date.

My intent was to use that for get_posts( ['s' => 'search term' ] );.

It has not had any traction for one decade, so it seems this doesn't seem too demanded.

I agree, I'll close this as wontfix.