Hey Kevin

Actually, this is not possible.

S&F uses post__in for the query itself – I’ll try to explain:

S&F will take a users search parameters, and run a special cache query to get the results.

The results are received as a list of Post IDs, which we use in a WP_Query, in the field post__in

This means, the post__in field is one of the only fields you cannot use, because S&F will overwrite any posts IDs here with the results it finds.

The best thing to do would be to add a custom field/post meta to your posts, and use this for numbering/ordering – then you can sort the results by this custom field (under the posts tab).

The logic of this approach is just the same as when using WP pages – you have a field menu order where you can specify a numerical value for a posts position.

A quick search found: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/43970/adding-menu-order-column-to-custom-post-type-admin-screen

There are also a number of plugins which allow menu order to be changed simply by “drag and drop”.

I hope that helps!

Ah ok, well the solution would be to give you access to the query object after S&F is finished with it, so you can re-order the post IDs..

Let me see if there is a filter I might have forgotten about…

Hi Kevin

I’ve been working on some bug fixes for the next update.

RE the above, its not a filter I intended for everyone to use (as I need to give more careful thought to the naming of it for example) but indeed it does work.

I just did a test – so, if you place the following in your functions.php:

add_filter("sf_apply_filter_sort_post__in", "sort_result_ids", 20, 3);
function sort_result_ids($result_ids, $query_args, $sfid)
{
	return $result_ids;
}

This filter actually does nothing to the result ids – it receives them, and simply returns them – a filter must always return something – in this case it should be an array of IDs.

BTW – by even having this filter in your code, this overrides / ignores any ordering set in the “posts” tab and forces it to order by the order of the IDs in $results_ids

$result_ids is just a regular array, with the post IDs – ie –

array(12,2342,325,12)

So what you must do, is re-arrange the array, so the IDs are in the order you want. You should not add or remove any IDs, you should really make sure you return the same IDs as what comes into the function – but in any order you like.

Another example, showing the result IDs reversed, which will reverse the order of the results from the first example:

add_filter("sf_apply_filter_sort_post__in", "sort_result_ids", 20, 3);
function sort_result_ids($result_ids, $query_args, $sfid)
{
	$result_ids = array_reverse($result_ids); //reverse the array, which reverses the order
	
	return $result_ids;
}

Hope that helps

Thanks