Order (group) results by taxonomy term by default

Anonymous

#205262

Hi, I’m trying to get search results ordered by a CPT taxonomy term. I thought the Relevanssi (premium) might work for this, but it doesn’t appear to be influencing the result at all.

Something like:
function calder_tax_weight( $match ) {
if ( has_term( ‘for-sale’, ‘listing_status’, $match->doc ) ) {
$match->weight = $match->weight * 5;
}
return $match;
}
add_filter( ‘relevanssi_match’, ‘calder_tax_weight’ );

Is there another way to do this with S&F that doesn’t involve a separate loops in the results template?

Trevor

#205272

Our plugin does not sort by taxonomy terms. The reason is that you can have multiple tag/category/taxonomy terms) on individual posts, and which term would we use to sort on? WordPress stores terms for tags/categories/taxonomies in arrays

A sort requires a single value field, so on some custom fields this can be done (but not on ones that can have multiple values). Be aware that if there is no value for a taxonomy/custom field the post will be omitted from the results entirely.

Anonymous

#205274

That makes sense. Can you provide a little more info on how Relevanssi is integrated into the S&F results? I’m going to troubleshoot a bit more, but will probably end up using a meta value.

-Is a search term required for Relevanssi filtered results?
-How do the respective indexes interact?

Thanks

Trevor

#205278

What our form does is the text search first, and receives back an array of Post ID’s, sorted if requested. It then further filters this list per the other filters on the page. Only this text search would use Relevanssi, or the default WordPress search. Relevanssi has no effect on results where the form has no text search.

If you want to sort, you may be able to use this filter:

https://searchandfilter.com/documentation/action-filter-reference/#edit-query-arguments

Anonymous

#205283

Thanks for confirming. What I was seeing with that filter is that WP Query does not have a direct way to group or sort by tax term. Existing solution all use a loop in a template.

For this application, duplicating the loop worked fine:

<?php
	while ($query->have_posts())
	{
		$query->the_post();

		if ( get_post_type( get_the_ID() ) == 'business_listing' && has_term('for-sale', 'listing_status') ) {
			echo do_shortcode( '[pods name="business_listing" template="Listing Snippet" id="'.get_the_ID().'"]' );
		} 
        
	}
	?>
	<?php
	while ($query->have_posts())
	{
		$query->the_post();

		if ( get_post_type( get_the_ID() ) == 'business_listing' && has_term('under-loi', 'listing_status')) {
			echo do_shortcode( '[pods name="business_listing" template="Listing Snippet"  id="'.get_the_ID().'"]' );
		} 
        
	}
	?>

Trevor

#205285

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Anonymous

#205287

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