How to have search results page sorted by post date

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).

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