Buggy sort of search results

[Gargo]

Example:
​http://gargo.of.by/?s=map

In my opinion the search results should be sorted by date (preferred for me) or by relevancy. But it seems wordpress takes the search results and mixes them unpredictably

[SergeyBiryukov]

Hi @Gargo, welcome to Trac! Thanks for the report.

Search results are actually ordered by relevance. The ordering logic is as follows:

• Full sentence matches in post titles.
• All search terms in post titles.
• Any search terms in post titles.
• Full sentence matches in post content.

Each section and any remaining posts are then sorted by date.

There are also some filters for advanced customization:

• wp_search_stopwords, to filter stop words ignored in WHERE.
• posts_search_orderby, to filter the ORDER BY when ordering search results.

See [25632] and the discussion in #7394.

[SergeyBiryukov]

It looks like you have ​Search Everything, ​Search in Place, and perhaps some other plugins installed, which might affect search results.

If you'd like to report an issue with WordPress core, please check if it still happens with all plugins disabled and a default theme (Twenty Seventeen or Twenty Sixteen) activated.

If you'd like to report an issue with a plugin, please use the plugin support forum for that.

[Gargo]

Replying to SergeyBiryukov:

It looks like you have ​Search Everything, ​Search in Place, and perhaps some other plugins installed, which might affect search results.

If you'd like to report an issue with WordPress core, please check if it still happens with all plugins disabled and a default theme (Twenty Seventeen or Twenty Sixteen) activated.

If you'd like to report an issue with a plugin, please use the plugin support forum for that.

Thanks for fast answer but all the installed plugins doesn't have influence on this behaviour - I installed them later and hoped to fix the sort order with them

[earnjam]

Duplicate of #34463

Also the link in the original description no longer works.