Changing sort from Alphabetical to Relevance

Hi Trisha
At the moment there is no easy way to change the sorting. The piece of code responsible for this is here:

https://github.com/scottsweb/instant-search-suggest/blob/master/assets/inc/iss-ajax.php#L196

And you could also possibly alter the taxonomy query here:

https://github.com/scottsweb/instant-search-suggest/blob/master/assets/inc/iss-ajax.php#L164

Because the suggestion list is often a mix of post types, taxonomies etc it made sense to me to sort alphabetically.

It might be nice to have some filters for changing this in future.

Hi Scott,

Thanks for the direction, I’ll take a look at the code where you suggest to see if I can figure it out – I appreciate the help!

I do think for most users Alpha sort is the preferred method, I doubt few would be using it in the odd way that we are, so it makes perfect sense to have designed it as you did. ??

That said, more settings would no doubt be welcomed by a lot of users so as you give thought to what to add in future updates, the sort order would be a useful setting for me.

I’ll post back here if I figure it out, in case anyone else has this need, for now I’ll mark this ‘resolved’.