orderby = $args['orderby']; $this->order = 'DESC'; unset($args['orderby']); unset($args['order']); } // perform a typical WP_Query // then if we weren't using a relevance sorting, we're actually done $this->process_args($args); parent::__construct($args); if (! $this->orderby) return; // okay, we're doing relevance postprocessing $this->initialize_relevance_scores(); $this->score_keyword_relevance(); $this->score_taxonomy_relevance(); $this->orderby_relevance(); // debugging; you can display this at any time to just dump the list of results //$this->display_results_so_far(); } // initializing all posts' relevance scores to 0 private function initialize_relevance_scores() { foreach ($this->posts as $post) { $post->relevance = 0; } } private function score_keyword_relevance() { if (! $this->query_vars['s']) return; // no keyword string = this is a noop $weight_title = @$this->query_vars['relevance_scoring']['title_keyword']; $weight_content = @$this->query_vars['relevance_scoring']['content_keyword']; if ($weight_title == NULL) $weight_title = $this->DEFAULT_WEIGHTING_TITLE_KEYWORD; if ($weight_content == NULL) $weight_content = $this->DEFAULT_WEIGHTING_CONTENT_KEYWORD; // print "score_keyword_relevance() Title keyword weight {$weight_title}\n"; // print "score_keyword_relevance() Content keyword weight {$weight_content}\n"; $words = strtoupper(trim($this->query_vars['s'])); $words = preg_split('/\s+/', $words); foreach ($this->posts as $post) { $title = strtoupper($post->post_title); $content = strtoupper($post->post_content); foreach ($words as $thisword) { $post->relevance += substr_count($title, $thisword) * $weight_title; $post->relevance += substr_count($content, $thisword) * $weight_content; } } } private function score_taxonomy_relevance() { if (!isset($this->query_vars['tax_query']) || !is_array($this->query_vars['tax_query'])) return; // no taxo query = skip it // taxonomy relevance is only calculated for IN-list operations // for other types of queries, all posts match that value and further scoring would be pointless // go over each taxo and each post // increase the post relevance, based on number of terms it has in common with the terms we asked about // this is done one taxo at a time, so we can match terms by ID, by slug, or by name ... and so we can apply individual weighting by that taxo foreach ($this->query_vars['tax_query'] as $taxo) { if (strtoupper($taxo['operator']) !== 'IN' or ! is_array($taxo['terms'])) continue; // not a IN-list query, so relevance scoring is not useful for this taxo $taxoslug = $taxo['taxonomy']; $whichfield = $taxo['field']; $wantterms = $taxo['terms']; $taxo_weighting = @$this->query_vars['relevance_scoring']['tax_query'][$taxoslug]; if ($taxo_weighting === NULL) $taxo_weighting = $this->DEFAULT_WEIGHTING_TAXONOMY_RATIO; // print "score_taxonomy_relevance() Taxo {$taxoslug} weight {$taxo_weighting}\n"; foreach ($this->posts as $post) { // find number of terms in common between this post and this taxo's list $terms_in_common = 0; $thispostterms = get_the_terms($post->ID, $taxo['taxonomy']); foreach ($thispostterms as $hasthisterm) { if (in_array($hasthisterm->{$whichfield}, $wantterms)) $terms_in_common += 1; } // express that terms-in-common as a percentage, and add to this post's relevance score $ratio = (float) $terms_in_common / sizeof($wantterms); $post->relevance += ($ratio * $ratio * $taxo_weighting); } } } private function orderby_relevance() { usort($this->posts, array($this, 'usort_sorting')); } private function display_results_so_far () { // for debugging foreach ($this->posts as $post) { printf('%d %s = %.1f' . "\n", $post->ID, $post->post_title, $post->relevance) . "\n"; } } private function usort_sorting ($p, $q) { // we force DESC and only trigger if orderby==='relevance' so we can keep this simple if ($p->relevance == $q->relevance) return 0; return $p->relevance > $q->relevance ? -1 : 1; } }