Posts show in random order

Anonymous

#245641

Hi,

I use s&f on a woocommerce store. I use as order setting: Menu order.
I have one product set in menu order 1 and the rest of the products have the same number.
When refreshing a category-age, all the products appear in a random order except the product with menu order ‘0’. Also when clicking to a next page in the result, it won’t show the products from that page, but also shows me products from page one again. Again in random order.

How can I prevent this random sorting?

Example productpage: https://cadeau.compion.dev/product-categorie/kinderkussens/

Geert

Ross Moderator

#245707

Hi Geert

It sounds like there may be something interferring with the query, causing a random order :/

Can you try disabling other plugins, and test on a default theme, to see if the same things happens?

Thanks

Anonymous

#246219

HI,

Thanks for the reply.

I have:
+ Disabled all plugins except woocommerce and S&F
+ Tried the default storefront theme and basic wp theme
but nog results. The posts still shows me the random order through all products with the same menu=order.

When I disable S&F, the random order stops and the products are in a fixen position every time the page refreshes. So it looks like S&F itself is causing the random order.
When I try another post-order setting in s&f, that order is working fine and not showing post in a random order.

Could it be that the setting for post-order: menu-order, show post with the same menu-order in a random way?

Geert

Ross Moderator

#246228

Hi Geert

So its only when choosing menu order you get a random order?

And the post with the position of 1 set, that is displayed consistently last / first?

When we do a search, we don’t use many WP_Query paramaters, we do our own query, which gets a big list of Post IDs for your results, and we stuff that into a WP_Query using post__in

Perhaps, when using menu_order, the post with position 1 is ordered correctly, but the rest are ordered according the IDs we supplied in post__in

Does that sound like it might be correct?

If that is the case, I suspect, setting a secondary sort order (in the posts tab of your search form) might order the remaining posts how you want?

Let me know how that works out.

Thanks

Anonymous

#246240

Hi,

Yes, that did the trick.
I set the second order to ‘title’. Now all posts are on the same position after refreshing.

Thanks for helping!
Geert

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Ross Moderator

#246241

Great stuff

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