Search Results in Alphabetical or Relevant Order?

If you have a search.php template with your theme, insert this in it just above The Loop:

<?php query_posts('orderby=title&order=ASC'); ?>

If you don’t have a search.php, you can copy the theme’s archive.php (or if *that* is not available, index.php) for it. Alternatively, you could use the following in archive.php/index.php:

<?php if(is_search()) {
query_posts('orderby=title&order=ASC');
} ?>

More info on query_posts():
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/query_posts

“Also, is there a way to search based on relevance?“

Plugin you may want to check out:
https://www.semiologic.com/projects/search-reloaded/

thanks for the direction!

Nice Kafka, though I don’t understand the relevance. If I am searching for something on “blah”, the title would be irrelevant. Just because it starts with an “A” doesn’t mean it contains the information for which I am looking ;-).

Hmmm.

Adding
<?php query_posts(‘orderby=title&order=ASC’); ?>

does get the search results in alphabetical order, but the navigation to next and previous search results pages no longer works. I can’t see more than the first page of search results.

Try this plugin:

https://www.semiologic.com/projects/search-reloaded/

Is there any documentation for that plugin? I can’t find any ways to configure it.

I tried adding this to search.php

<?php
// we add this, to show *all* posts sorted
// alphabetically by title
$posts = query_posts($query_string . ‘&orderby=title&order=asc&posts_per_page=-1’);
// here comes The Loop!
if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

(found at: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Alphabetizing_Posts) but I get the same non-functioning next and previous buttons. Does this indicate that something is broken?