Title: Multisort Order Last modified: September 22, 2020 --- # Multisort Order * [Vincenzo Casu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vincent06/) * (@vincent06) * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisort-order/) * Hi, I took a look at the page [https://wpstorelocator.co/document/change-search-results-order/](https://wpstorelocator.co/document/change-search-results-order/) * and I would like to know if I can do so to insert in the lateral template the country as a title and immediately under all the shops of that country ordered alphabetically… * in my custom wpsl template i have this code: * ``` .... $output .= "\t" . '
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' . "\r\n"; .... ``` * wpsl-stores list is dynamically filled by the ajax request, how can I control this flow to enter the country names and sort the stores in order of country / alaphabetic? Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * Plugin Author [Tijmen Smit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tijmensmit/) * (@tijmensmit) * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisort-order/#post-13442008) * If you want to change the search results template itself, then you need to use [this filter](https://wpstorelocator.co/document/wpsl_listing_template/). * Sorting the results by country is explained [here](https://wpstorelocator.co/document/change-search-results-order/). * So adding this code to the functions.php inside your active theme folder should make that work. Do make sure to flush the WPSL transient cache on the settings page ( tools section ). * ``` add_filter( 'wpsl_store_data', 'custom_result_sort' ); function custom_result_sort( $store_meta ) { $custom_sort = array(); foreach ( $store_meta as $key => $row ) { $custom_sort[$key] = $row['country']; } array_multisort( $custom_sort, SORT_ASC, SORT_REGULAR, $store_meta ); return $store_meta; } ``` * Thread Starter [Vincenzo Casu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vincent06/) * (@vincent06) * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisort-order/#post-13443408) * Hello, thank you for your reply! * Is there any way to better group the results? * Let me explain: if I look for Spain, and for some reason there is a shop that is geographically closer, in the results this is shown first … instead if I look for Spain it is because I want Spain, then afterwards you can also show me the other shops … Your snippet groups by country, but it shows first France and then Spain even though I searched for Spain … I don’t know if I made it clear … * With this modification below it sorts the results first by distance and then by country, but still not what I’m looking for … * ``` function wpsl_custom_result_sort($store_meta) { $custom_sort_1 = array(); $custom_sort_2 = array(); foreach ($store_meta as $key => $row) { $custom_sort_1[$key] = $row['distance']; $custom_sort_2[$key] = $row['country']; } array_multisort($custom_sort_1, SORT_ASC, SORT_REGULAR, $custom_sort_2, SORT_ASC, SORT_REGULAR, $store_meta); return $store_meta; } add_filter('wpsl_store_data', 'wpsl_custom_result_sort'); ``` * In fact, if there are stores in other countries that are closer than the position sought, always show those first … * do you have any suggestions? - This reply was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by [Vincenzo Casu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vincent06/). - This reply was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by [Vincenzo Casu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vincent06/). * Thread Starter [Vincenzo Casu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vincent06/) * (@vincent06) * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisort-order/#post-13443500) * If you navigate to my dev site: [https://schenker.kolorweb.it/dealers/](https://schenker.kolorweb.it/dealers/) * As you can see the results are sorted first by distance from the starting point( which in this case is USA) and then by country, even if in the end I can’t find myself because the order always follows the distance first … a view like I did here ([https://schenker.kolorweb.it/all-dealers-list](https://schenker.kolorweb.it/all-dealers-list)) taking the values manually with an ad hoc query … * I would like to have country and country distributor in order of country … * If a search is done, I would like to have the country searched (if it is in first position regardless of distance) and other results close to follow, always grouped by country … * Plugin Author [Tijmen Smit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tijmensmit/) * (@tijmensmit) * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisort-order/#post-13452521) * ‘If a search is done, I would like to have the country searched (if it is in first position regardless of distance) and other results close to follow, always grouped by country …’ * This is not something that can be easily done, since you will first to [reverse geocode](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/overview#reverse-example) the coordinates again with an API request. Nothing in the submitted data contains the country name. * I didn’t test it, but the $_GET data likely still contains the coordinates with [this filter](https://wpstorelocator.co/document/wpsl_store_data/). There you can reverse geocode the coordinates and find the searched country. * Then loop over the results in the wpsl_store_data filter and take out the locations that belong to that country in a separate array, and place the other locations in a different array by country and merge them in the end with the one with the searched country first. - This reply was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by [Tijmen Smit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tijmensmit/). 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