Title: Sorting improvement
Last modified: February 17, 2019

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# Sorting improvement

 *  Resolved [tajin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tajin/)
 * (@tajin)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-improvement/)
 * I suggest modifying similar-posts.php on line 168 as follows:
    `$sql .= " ORDER
   BY score DESC LIMIT $limit";`
 * to
 * `$sql .= " ORDER BY score DESC, post_date DESC LIMIT $limit";`
 * That way all identical matches (for example when you’re just comparing categories)
   will be sorted by post-date.
 * I know the plugin already has output sorting but if you have for example 30 posts
   in the same category and the plugin is told to display only 5 hits, then it will
   always show the oldest 5.
 * With this change it will be the newests ones instead which makes much more sense
   to me.
    -  This topic was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by [tajin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tajin/).

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 *  Plugin Author [Shareaholic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shareaholic/)
 * (@shareaholic)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-improvement/#post-11211733)
 * [@tajin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tajin/) great idea. the next release
   will contain this improvement.
 *  Plugin Author [Shareaholic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shareaholic/)
 * (@shareaholic)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-improvement/#post-11213791)
 * Released!

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## Tags

 * [custom order](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-order/)
 * [post_date](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/post_date/)
 * [sort](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sort/)

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-improvement/#post-11213791)
 * Status: resolved