Multiple sort bases/sort by “newest”

[krysal]

Description

Summary

Allow sorting based on criteria other than relevance.

Background

Sorting on the basis of fields other than relevance has its uses. For example, sorting artworks by date of creation helps see the patterns in art and how it evolves. Having more than one view for results can help surface more contextually relevant results and also improve the search experience.

Some other fields that can be used to sort results are

• Creation date (this is the date a photo was taken or the year a painting was created)
• Upload date
• Interesting (based on popularity metrics, both third party as well as first party)

Allow to retrieve the newest search results (in addition to the most relevant). Only the descending order by date will be implemented, as this is the most requested and potentially useful feature. In addition, ascending order (oldest first) would probably return too many dead links.

Documents

• [ ] Project Proposal
• [ ] Implementation of any new Elasticsearch indices
• [ ] Implementation of frontend & design effort

Milestones/Issues

TBD.

Prior Art

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[zackkrida]

@WordPress/openverse-maintainers a small note: I've reclassified this as a "Search Relevancy" project. I think given that it's intention would be to show users, well, "more relevant" results, that relevancy is the most appropriate way to frame this project.