Search / Listings order

Sorting options only apply to the Listing pages. What you can do with sorting options is apply the “Featured” firs.
https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/core-place-settings/#sorting

To show featured listings on the search or listings pages, you can also apply a GD Popular posts view widget to those pages. The widget has options for “Show Featured Only”. This can be placed at the top to give featured listings lots of exposure, or at the bottom.

If there is a problem, and you are not seeing the results you expect, we would be happy to take a look. For this issue, please be sure to send over the following information.

Listing/Category type page URL where the listing should appear:
Listing Detail page url, for the listing you want to appear on that page:

WordPress Credentials
WP Admin Login URL:
WP Admin Username:
WP Admin Password:

Hello,

Though it is possible to add additional sorting methods, these are not effective in V1.

Is it your goal, featured first then A-Z ascending? Here is a snippet for that.

add_filter('geodir_posts_order_by_sort','_my_custom_order_by',10,3);
function _my_custom_order_by($orderby, $sort_by, $table){
	global $wpdb;

	if($sort_by=='is_featured_asc'){
		$orderby .= " $wpdb->posts.post_title ASC, ";
	}
	return $orderby;
}

https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/archive-display-sorting/#post-392275

You can add this with the code snippets plugin.

https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/customizing-your-style/

Can this be amended to featured first in random order then the remaining listings in random?

Or even better, Featured in the top with a featured title then everything else below.

Preferably, with an image for the featured listings, then just a list for the remaining which be my ideal scenario?

RE: Snippet, please see the original post with instructions

https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/archive-display-sorting/#post-392275

Let us know if it works as expected, and if not please share wp credentials so we can take a look at the settings.

Preferably, with an image for the featured listings, then just a list for the remaining which be my ideal scenario?

The display of the listings is set on the Design – Listing page settings