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Let's say you want to show posts tagged with tags : "HTML, CSS".

I want to order posts in tag archive in the following order:

Post tagged with only exact two tags - HTML,CSS
Post tagged with only exact two tags - HTML, CSS
Posts tagged with three tags - HTML, CSS, jQuery
Posts tagged with three tags - HTML, CSS, ZEND
Posts tagged with four tags - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP
etc.

So first result/s should only output posts with only exact specified tags. After there are no more posts tagged with only those two tags, output posts tagged those 2 tags + only one more tag. And so on.

What should I use? Two wpQueryPosts loops? Can it be done with only one loop? How to sort by matched tags?

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    Please show us what you tried. Else it gets quickly very opinionated. Just file an edit and add your code.
    – kaiser
    Commented Nov 18, 2013 at 23:36

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You can count the number of tags when a post is saved and store it as a meta key for the post. Now you can just add a sort by the value of the meta key to the tag page query.

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  • We're on to something. I modified tag.php in twentythirteen. It sorts them as I wanted BUT seems like my query broke tag recognition. What I mean is it sorts them by number of tags, but completely ignoring what tags are selected. So it shows all posts with all tags and only sorts them by meta_value. How to fix this? I know there is tag argument for wpquery but how to include selected tags? $_GET[tags]? Will this even work with pretty permalinks? Anyways, I appreciate your help. Here's the pastebin of my tag.php pastebin.com/Rfcp7bT2
    – dev2pm
    Commented Nov 21, 2013 at 10:39
  • you don't populate the parameters from the parameters of the original query. If you still can't figure it out please make it a separate question
    – Mark Kaplun
    Commented Nov 21, 2013 at 15:09
  • I used $tag = get_query_var('tag') and passed it to my custom wpQuery. Now it works like charm. Thank you @Mark
    – dev2pm
    Commented Nov 22, 2013 at 15:00

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