Here is a look at the results from old to new sorting:

They bounce all around. From 1987 to 2000 to 1983 ext.

Thanks again for your help!!
-Luke

Hey Trevor, thanks for getting back to me!

I’ll send you the login first and then if that doesn’t fix it we can go to the second route.

**Posting this message for any future visitors trying to follow the conversation so they can find a fix as I did!

. . . sending a private message next. . .

A good example Search and filter sidebar from the site I sent you: /category/distribution/film/

If I search “new to old” (meta value, ascending) on the film page this is the URL ending: /?sfid=4737&sort_order=_sfm_premiere_date+desc+num

“old to new” : /?sfid=4737&sort_order=_sfm_premiere_date+asc+num

Each of our 4 subcategories has their own search results template file.

I did this so we can have 4 separate Search & Filter shortcodes to display on their respective search results page.

This might be the long way around, but it made sense to me. Please let me know if you have a smarter way of doing this conditionally or something 🙂

Since my search is loaded via an off-canvas element I have a file search-off-canvas.php that conditionally checks what category the page is on and loads the proper shortcode:

<?php
$categories = array( 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1980 );

if (is_category($categories)) :?>

<?php

if (is_category(1973)) { // film
    echo '<h4 class="ml-2">Search Films</h4>';
    echo do_shortcode('[searchandfilter id="4737"]'); // film
} elseif (is_category(1976)) { //series
    echo '<h4 class="ml-2">Search Series</h4>';
    echo do_shortcode('[searchandfilter id="4740"]');
} elseif (is_category(1975)) { //special
    echo '<h4 class="ml-2">Search Specials</h4>';
    echo do_shortcode('[searchandfilter id="4741"]');
} elseif (is_category(1974)) { //album
    echo '<h4 class="ml-2">Search Albums</h4>';
    echo do_shortcode('[searchandfilter id="4742"]');
}

endif;

?>

As always, if you see a better way to do this, please let me know.

Let me know how I can help you on this.

Thanks Trevor!!
-Luke

I think you’re right. These would have been entered into the database long before I set up your plugin. So what should we do to re-enter the dates into the database? Or something else entirely??