Possible to show search results in ascending order by post date?

add_filter('relevanssi_modify_wp_query', 'rlv_asc_date');
function rlv_asc_date($query) {
    $query->set('orderby', 'post_date');
    $query->set('order', 'ASC');
    return $query;
}

Add this to functions.php to get posts sorted oldest first.

Hi Mikko,

Thanks for sending over the code, however, it returns the error below:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION

Any ideas?

Specifically, the line in the error was referring to this section of the code:

function rlv_asc_date($query) {

Sounds like a typo somewhere, for example a missing semicolon on the first line might cause an error like that. It seems correct to me, so make sure it was copy-pasted correctly. Instead of copy-pasting, you could also type it yourself in case there’s a shift-space or something like that in the code I wrote.

Mikko, thank you for your quick support on this. Turns out I had to first disable w3 total cache before adding it to my site plugin. Not sure why but after enabling w3 total cache again it now works without issue.

Thanks again!

Weird. Glad you got it sorted out!