[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #39761: Buggy sort of search results

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#39761: Buggy sort of search results
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 Reporter:  Gargo         |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Query         |     Version:  4.7.2
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                |     Focuses:
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Changes (by SergeyBiryukov):

 * component:  Date/Time => Query


Comment:

 Hi @Gargo, welcome to Trac! Thanks for the report.

 Search results are actually ordered by relevance. The ordering logic is as
 follows:
 * Full sentence matches in post titles.
 * All search terms in post titles.
 * Any search terms in post titles.
 * Full sentence matches in post content.

 Each section and any remaining posts are then sorted by date.

 There also some filters for advanced customization:
 * `wp_search_stopwords`, to filter stop words ignored in `WHERE`.
 * `posts_search_orderby`, to filter the `ORDER BY` when ordering search
 results.

 See [25632] and the discussion in #7394.

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