This module allows site builders to sort content in views based on configurable scoring rules. These rules can weigh factors like shared taxonomy terms and the age of content, enabling customizable relevance sorting.
The Views Scored Sort module is intended to allow site builders to apply scoring rules to their views.
Description
This module was originally designed to fulfill a requirement similar to the following:
Design a view that will show related content for a node. It will primarily show nodes that share a taxonomy term with the current node, giving a higher score for each taxonomy term that is shared. In addition, content will be penalized based on the age of the content, either the age vs. the current date, or the age vs. the value of a specified date field present on the current node that the view is being displayed on. The result should be something like 70% taxonomy term sharing, 30% date.
A service was written for this purpose, and modified to accept user defined configuration.
Now, using this module, views can be sorted with weighting on taxonomy term references and timestamps.