Title: Sorting
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Sorting

 *  [JonasKristjansson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonaskristjansson/)
 * (@jonaskristjansson)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-6/)
 * Overriding sorting by publication date by sorting by supposed importance is a
   mistake. Instead of a logical sorting system or a choice of sorting systems you
   impose upon us sorting by fuzziness.

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 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-6/#post-4448575)
 * To what are you referring? WP sorts by date/time … are your referring to something
   else?
 *  Thread Starter [JonasKristjansson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonaskristjansson/)
 * (@jonaskristjansson)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-6/#post-4448577)
 * Formerly WordPress sorted search results in reverse publication order, which 
   is logical and fine for me, with the most recent results first.
    A choice between
   oldest or newest search results first would have been excellent. But now WordPress
   sorts search restults firstly according to most recent headline results and secondly
   by most recent content results. I am publishing a database with thousands of 
   records. When results of a content search are in the hundreds this complicated
   matters as users have to find the beginning of the most recent results of the
   content to find those most recent results. They find them on the third page maybe,
   if they have not given up already. This is a waste of time for everybody who 
   is searching the data. Most people are looking for the most recent content, which
   may or may not be reflected in the headline.

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 * Last reply from: [JonasKristjansson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonaskristjansson/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-6/#post-4448577)
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