How to have search results page sorted by post date

Question

On this search results page: http://p2reloaded.com/?s=versions&search-submit=Search

I'd like to inverse the order of the results to start by newest post date first at the top of the page. Right now it's showing older posts first. Is there a way to specify that in the WP search function through a URL parameter?

BTW, I am had to install the Relevanssi plugin to get WP (or the theme?) to search using tags.

Thanks! Noel

Answer 1

WordPress will order search results by newest post first by default, so if your results are in a different order then it looks like another plugin is affecting them.

Have you tried searching with all other plugins disabled?

If you're using Relevanssi, then it won't order results by date as Relvanssia overrides this with its own weighting algorithm instead (which is the whole point of using Relevanssi).