Post title not weighted properly

The results are in date order. If you have Relevanssi set to relevancy order, your results are not actually coming from Relevanssi.

If that’s the case, please show me the search results template in your theme, share it in a pastebin for example.

I figured out it was a conflict with the plugin Intuitive Custom Post Order, which was rewriting the query_vars for the search results to be by “menu_order” rather than the orderby specified. I’ve disabled the sorting, but I was wondering if there’s a hook in Relevanssi where I can disable that filter for search results only?

here’s what I added to disable the offending orderby:

global $hicpo;
remove_filter( 'pre_get_posts', array( $hicpo, 'hicpo_pre_get_posts' ) );

Thanks a lot –?I ran into this same problem with a client, and couldn’t figure out where that menu_order comes from. In his case, I solved this by forcing Relevanssi to use relevance ordering.

Relevanssi doesn’t have a hook for that, but I’m adding it to the next version. You could use that. Edit lib/search.php and find the following line:

if (!in_array($order, $order_accepted_values)) $order = 'desc';

After that line, add:

$orderby = apply_filters('relevanssi_orderby', $orderby);
$order = apply_filters('relevanssi_order', $order);

Now you have a filter that can change the orderby parameter, so you can go:

add_filter('relevanssi_orderby', 'force_relevance');
function force_relevance() { return 'relevance'; }

And the problem will be fixed.

This works well, but how can I override the forced orderby with a post variable so I can offer users the option sort results by date?

Here’s a weird one: For some reason, after I made the changes above, I started getting this error on post preview/updates.
PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function relevanssi_purge_excerpt_cache()

It doesn’t seem that the change would have anything to do with that function, and I tried reversing the changes to no effect. For the time being I’ve commented out line 555 in lib/indexing.php and that seems to have solved the problem. We’re not using the cache anyway, so it shouldn’t matter, right?

You can check the query variables in the force_relevance() function. Once you introduce the global $wp_query variable, you can find the query variables in $wp_query->query_vars. Check there and have the function return post_date if you want sorted by date.

Good catch on the cache function. Yes, comment out the line, I’ll remove it in the next version. Strange that it’s still there.

Thanks for the response.

We also started seeing errors from a relevanssi_purge_excerpt_cache() on line 210 of lib/indexing.php

Which version of Relevanssi are you running? I checked, and the latest version doesn’t include any references to relevanssi_purge_excerpt_cache(). Please upgrade the plugin.

Odd. Plugin version was listed as 1.12.1 but I went ahead and grabbed a fresh copy and indeed the references to relevanssi_purge_excerpt_cache() seem to be gone.