Can you please help in sorting search results based on custom field?

[Swaraj]

Hi

I am testing the functionality of the plugin in the test environment, I have indexed records along with a custom field to add it as an attribute.

// custom field to Algolia for all post types
add_filter('algolia_post_shared_attributes', 'start_date_to_algolia', 10, 2);

/**
 * Add the 'start_date' field to Algolia attributes.
 *
 * @param array   $attributes
 * @param WP_Post $post
 * @return array
 */
function start_date_to_algolia(array $attributes, WP_Post $post)
{
    if ( 'webinars' !== $post->post_type ) {
        // here if the post isn't a 'webinars', so we return the attributes unaltered.
        return $attributes;
    }
    // if the ACF field exists for the post
    if (function_exists('get_field') && get_field('start_date', $post->ID)) {
        $attributes['start_date'] = get_field('start_date', $post->ID);
    }

    return $attributes;
}

Now I want to get results sorted using the start_date attribute, is there any way? Can you please guide how we can do that?

start_date is indexed as a timestamp in the index records! For example, start_date: 1706250600

Thank you so much

[Michael Beckwith]

I would check out:

• https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/managing-results/refine-results/sorting/
• https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/managing-results/refine-results/sorting/in-depth/replicas/

Most specifically, from what I'm reading, you'll need to get a standard replica set up with this new sorting strategy added

Give that a lookover and see what you make of it, and if you still have some more questions, we'll do what we can to help with those.

Closing the issue as a general support, but feel free to comment further as needed.