Available since: 1.4.8

searchwp_return_orderby_date

SearchWP was designed to be a relevance-based, keyword weighted search engine. By default returned results are based on a combination of relevance (determined by SearchWP) and keyword weight (determined by you via the settings) but there may be times where you want to use SearchWP’s intelligence to retrieve a results pool but have the returned results ordered by date. Using this hook you can make that happen.

Example: to have results from all search engines ordered by date, add the following to your theme’s functions.php:

	<?php

	// ALWAYS return search results ordered by date
	add_filter( 'searchwp_return_orderby_date', '__return_true' );

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Example: to conditionally return results ordered by date depending on search engine name, add the following to your theme’s functions.php:

	<?php

	function my_searchwp_return_orderby_date( $order_by_date, $engine ) {

	// for the Default engine (only!) we want to return search results by date
	if ( 'default' == $engine ) {
	$order_by_date = true;
	}

	return $order_by_date;
	}

	add_filter( 'searchwp_return_orderby_date', 'my_searchwp_return_orderby_date', 10, 2 );

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Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
`$order_by_date`	Boolean	Whether the results are ordered by date instead of keyword weight
`$engine`	String	The name of the engine in use