Hi!
I think I might have a solution, at least it’s working on my test environment.
Basically you need to put these into your active theme folder, into the functions.php file:
[php]add_filter(‘asp_pagepost_results’, ‘asp_reorder_by_meta’, 1, 1);
function asp_reorder_by_meta( $results ) {
// first, get the missing CF field
foreach ($results as $k => $r) {
$results[$k]->m_author_name = get_post_meta($r->id, ‘author_name’, true);
}
// sorting by the new field with a helper funtion
usort($results, "asp_meta_author_cmp");
return $results;
}
/**
* Performs object attribute comparison
*/
function asp_meta_author_cmp($a, $b) {
return strcmp($a->m_author_name, $b->m_author_name);
}[/php]
This does the following:
– Connects to ajax search pro via the “asp_pagepost_results” filter
– then gets the “author_name” meta and adds it to the m_author_name field to each result item
– performs a sorting based on a function, comparing the m_author_name fields, which now contains the author name custom field
I hope this helps.