# Changing the default 'sort by' setting for search

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-default-sort-by-setting-for-search/38847
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [February 1, 2016, 8:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-default-sort-by-setting-for-search/38847 "2016-02-01T20:13:56Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2018, 3:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-default-sort-by-setting-for-search/38847/10 "2018-10-09T03:18:42Z")

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I think adding a site setting that allows you to pick default site sort order would be useful in some cases:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/9/89c109af16dca4ab955aa062dbe7cae7a49eb5cf.png)

I agree with @codinghorror 100% that our default of “Relevance” is correct, but can see cases where there is a very strong preference for latest (either post or topic).

I am not keen on making this a strong per user setting quite yet though. @codinghorror should we slot adding this site setting, or wait on this for a bit?

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