Add SEARCH_PARAM and ORDERING_PARAM to settings

Fixes #1434

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/docs/api-guide/filtering.md b/docs/api-guide/filtering.md
index 07420d84..d6c4b1c1 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/filtering.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/filtering.md
@@ -264,13 +264,17 @@ For example:
 
     search_fields = ('=username', '=email')
 
+By default, the search parameter is named `'search`', but this may be overridden with the `SEARCH_PARAM` setting.
+
 For more details, see the [Django documentation][search-django-admin].
 
 ---
 
 ## OrderingFilter
 
-The `OrderingFilter` class supports simple query parameter controlled ordering of results.  To specify the result order, set a query parameter named `'ordering'` to the required field name.  For example:
+The `OrderingFilter` class supports simple query parameter controlled ordering of results.  By default, the query parameter is named `'ordering'`, but this may by overridden with the `ORDERING_PARAM` setting.
+
+For example, to order users by username:
 
     http://example.com/api/users?ordering=username
 
diff --git a/docs/api-guide/settings.md b/docs/api-guide/settings.md
index 5aee52aa..c979019f 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/settings.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/settings.md
@@ -158,6 +158,18 @@ A client request like the following would return a paginated list of up to 100 i
 
 Default: `None`
 
+### SEARCH_PARAM
+
+The name of a query paramater, which can be used to specify the search term used by `SearchFilter`.
+
+Default: `search`
+
+#### ORDERING_PARAM
+
+The name of a query paramater, which can be used to specify the ordering of results returned by `OrderingFilter`.
+
+Default: `ordering`
+
 ---
 
 ## Authentication settings