Sorting Bug on search results only

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April 5, 2015 at 2:52 pm #36243

BL Interactive
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when in a category or tag listing sorting a-z and z-a works normally, but in search results it appears that it sorts by most recently edited no matter sac or desc. attached are my settings and credentials in next post.

April 5, 2015 at 2:57 pm #36245

BL Interactive
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April 6, 2015 at 12:37 am #36272

Guust
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I’ll alert the others for you, I cannot figure it out 🙁
You might have to be a bit patient because of the Easter break.

April 6, 2015 at 4:18 pm #36357

Paolo
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Hi,

yes this seems to be a bug I can easily re-create in any of our test websites.

I’ve added it as a task for developer to fix ASAP. We will report as soon as done.

Thanks for spotting it!

Cheers,

April 15, 2015 at 9:04 am #37196

Stiofan O’Connor
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Sorting should work fine on category pages, and on search pages there should be no sort options, sorting is done by search criteria.

April 23, 2015 at 9:37 pm #37893

BL Interactive
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Something else has popped up that is causing me a headache. If the list is sorted by random, the pagination seems to be random as well.

Places show up multiple times through out the pagination, and it appears that some might be missing because the total amount of listings is correct.

This does not seem to be the case when sorted A-Z

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April 23, 2015 at 9:37 pm #37894

BL Interactive
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April 24, 2015 at 6:28 pm #37934

Paolo
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HI,

this is how random works in wordpress archives. It is randomized after every page load.

Thanks

April 24, 2015 at 7:10 pm #37939

BL Interactive
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Any Way to work in either of these?
http://wordpress.mcdspot.com/2011/12/24/consistent-random-set-of-posts/
or
http://www.hughlashbrooke.com/2013/08/wordpress-random-post-order-with-correct-pagination/

Ideally the query would get cached and reused by all visitors for 10-15 minutes, even if the visitor goes back to page 1.

April 24, 2015 at 7:51 pm #37941

Paolo
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Currently we are using default wordpress API, that requires to hack how it works and should be considered a customization or a feature request.

At the moment nobody ever requested this here: https://wpgeodirectory.com/requests/

So we can’t really prioritize it.

Thanks
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