WooCommerce comes with a variety of sorting options. By default, the sort order for your products is “Custom Ordering + Name”.
There’s a number of plugins that enable you to sort the products manually, but did you know this functionality is already built into WooCommerce.
Navigate to Products, then click Sorting.
From this page, you can simply drag and drop the product rows to reorder them. You could also filter by category and change the ordering per category.
It’s worth noting that this isn’t a very flexible sorting option, but it should mostly do what you need.
When you add new products they will show up first in the list.
If you wanted to change the default sort order, you can do that under WooCommerce > Settings > Products > Display > Default product sorting.
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hi, if i sort order the same product in brands and i want it to be first and then in another category i want it to be last i cant do that when i change order in one of the categories the sorting changes in both do you have a solution?
Great instructions, I’d just add in a recent update WooCommerce have moved the “Default Product Sorting” options to the WordPress customizer,
Cheers
Chris
Thank you for pointing that out, Chris!
Hi,
Great blog, You have summed up all the points very efficiently. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks
Hi, is there anyway to get woocommerce to changing the order of the product variations in the front end. When a customer clicks on the size options, they are alphabetical rather than by size which makes no sense! L / M/ S / XL / XS
How do we do this when products appear on multiple pages?
Did you ever find a solution for this? If so, would you mind sharing please?
Thanks!
Right at the top of the page, under ‘screen options’, increase the ‘number of items per page’ so all products are on one page.
Right at the top of the page, under ‘screen options’, increase the ‘number of items per page’ so all products are on one page.
Hi, the sorting feature does not work for me. What am I doing wrong?
It does not work for me either 🙁
What happens for you both?
Not working. Clicking Sorting displays a listing in the order desired but what’s displayed in the Gallery is the ordering in the All (26) view – regardless of the menu order number.
Default product sorting under Appearance:Woo:Product Catelog also no effect. Is there another sorting option that is overriding this default?
thanks for instruction. i have a question . i cant any option in my product with name “display ” . any other place may be i found it ?
The “Display” settings is moved to Customizer since WooCommerce 3.3
Thanks for clearing my doubt on WooCommerce default sorting option : Custom Ordering + Name
Now everything clear and i got idea how exactly it rendering products on Catalog page.
It’s not working for us. We click sorting, move the products into the order we want it to be on front end and nothing changes on the front end. When we go back into in the category and click sorting they are in the order we moved them to but won’t show on the front end or if we just go into the category without clicking sorting.
Have cleared cache too
HI Guys,
Anyone found out the solution? I did what Michelle Ingram did and no changes…
Thank you
Anyone found out the solution?
Thank you
This is great if you have 20 products. What do you do with a few hundred let alone thousands of products?
Did you ever find a solution for this? If so, would you mind sharing please?
Thanks – facing the same issue here!
Did you ever find a solution for this? If so, would you mind sharing please?
Thanks, facing the same problem!
I have not found a solution Cindy other than to increase the number of items displayed on the ALL PRODUCTS page in Woocommerce Admin. Do this in the screen options at the top RHS of the ALL PRODUCTS page in Woocommerce Admin. It can display hundreds if not 1,000 so this will accommodate most situations. Good Luck. Alistair
I think this is the limitation of this native feature. You might want to consider using 3rd party plugin if you wish to achieve this in automatic mode instead of doing this manually.
Great instructions, I’d just add in a recent update WooCommerce have moved the “Default Product Sorting” options to the WordPress customizer,
Amee James – thanks for this update. Can you provide more detailed instructions of where to find “default product sorting” now? That would be awesome. Thank you!
Now it is in the wordpress customizer as mentioned above. It is located here:
WooCommerce ▸ Archives
Third item down.. Default product sorting
Cheers!
When I go into Woo/Settings/Product there is no option showing for Display. How do I get this option to appear so I can edit the default sort?
When I go into Woo/Settings/Products – there is not an option for display. I only get…
General |Inventory |Downloadable products
How can I get the Display option to show up?
@Shay Discepolo This option can be found now in Appearance > Customize > WooCommerce.
30/03/2020 – Order (updated in Customizer) does not display them in the custom order. I am only using 4 products (all membership based). It is not even sorting on price. Seems to be on name only still – not the order I’ve set in the Customizer (although – in the Customizer it shows them in the expected order). All caches are cleared.
Thank you Alistair! I think that may be just the thing we were looking for – because although the built-in WooCommerce sort allows sorting within categories, you couldn’t drag a product from one page (page of 20 items) to another page in that same category. What we really needed was to display 100 items at once, I believe! I will test it out and let you know. Thank you!!
Thanks for this post, I`m looking for solution from yesterday.
Better late than never. You’re welcome. Glad that it helps 🙂
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It’s Working,
Thank You Very Much, I was stuck there for week
Hi Asad,
Awesome! glad that it works and it helps 🙂
thanks
You’re welcome
How do you push a product to another page. It only shows so many. Is there a way to show more on one page. thanks
The best and quickest way to do that is by using WooCommerce Shortcodes. All you need to do is create a page where you want to display your products then use the shortcode to display the products depends on your preference.
https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-shortcodes/