Sort Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types by Date

By default SearchWP sorts results in order of relevance from most relevant to least. Using a SearchWP Mode we can override the sorting of results to instead return in the order they were published.

All hooks should be added to your custom SearchWP Customizations Plugin.

      
        <?php
      
        // Sort SearchWP Post, Page, and Custom Post Type Results by date in DESC order.
      
        add_filter( 'searchwp\query\mods', function( $mods ) {
      
        	$mod = new \SearchWP\Mod( \SearchWP\Utils::get_post_type_source_name( 'post' ) );
      
        	$mod->order_by( function( $mod ) {
      
        		return $mod->get_local_table_alias() . '.post_date';
      
        	}, 'DESC', 1 );
      
        	$mods[] = $mod;
      
        	return $mods;
      
        } );

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Note that this hook applies only to WP_Post-based Sources (e.g. Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types) but it can be modified to consider any custom Sources you may be using.

	<?php

	// Sort SearchWP Post, Page, and Custom Post Type Results by date in DESC order.
	add_filter( 'searchwp\query\mods', function( $mods ) {
	$mod = new \SearchWP\Mod( \SearchWP\Utils::get_post_type_source_name( 'post' ) );
	$mod->order_by( function( $mod ) {
	return $mod->get_local_table_alias() . '.post_date';
	}, 'DESC', 1 );

	$mods[] = $mod;

	return $mods;
	} );

Sort Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types by Date

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