Customize sorting of Search results page

Hi John,

Unfortunately I don't think this is possible without a custom solution which is a bit out of the forum scope here.

I did some Googling and found some posts that help to get you started if you want to give it a shot:
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/177650/sort-search-results-by-post-type
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13487594/sort-search-results-by-post-type
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52508502/wordpress-search-result-page-first-then-post

Alternatively, we can also make it so only products show if it helps:
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/generate_navigation_search_output/#woocommerce-products

Hope this helps :)

thanks!

this seems to have done it thanks for pointing in the right direction

 function order_search_by_posttype($orderby){
    if (!is_admin() && is_search()) :
        global $wpdb;
        $orderby =
            "
            CASE WHEN {$wpdb->prefix}posts.post_type = 'product' THEN '1' 
                 WHEN {$wpdb->prefix}posts.post_type = 'post' THEN '2' 
                 WHEN {$wpdb->prefix}posts.post_type = 'page' THEN '3' 
            ELSE {$wpdb->prefix}posts.post_type END ASC, 
            {$wpdb->prefix}posts.post_title ASC";
    endif;
    return $orderby;
}
add_filter('posts_orderby', 'order_search_by_posttype');

Glad to hear :)