Adding data-pagefind-sort removed pages.

[huphtur]

Have 2 types of pages on my 11ty site: collection (blog) pages, and one-off pages (eg an about page).

Added data-pagefind-body to <main> and all the pages get indexed, which is great.

I wanted to sort the blog posts by date, so added data-pagefind-sort="date" and sort: { date: "asc" }. My blog posts are indeed sorted, but now my one-off pages are not shown in the search result anymore.

What am I doing wrong here?

[bglw]

Currently what you're seeing is intentional, where using a sort acts as an impromptu filter as well.

What would be your desired behavior here? If you search for a term and sort the results by date, the one-off pages would have to all either appear before or after the blog posts that do have a date, in some undetermined order.

[huphtur]

Ah, that makes sense. If I wanted to show then before the blog post what would be the best action to handle that? I could add today's date to the one-off pages, but assume that's a bit wonky.

[bglw]

Hmm, if you're using the default UI I can't think of a great way to achieve that right now. If you're using the JS search API, I would recommend just running two searches: one with the sort and one with a filter to pages.

I think ideally this is a feature I add to the sorting behavior that can be configured in some way.

[bglw]

What would you expect to see when changing the date sort between asc and desc? Would untagged results stay pinned to the top, or would they move to be at the end of the search results? (This weird interaction is the reason I currently omit them)