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?
Hi, the sorting feature does not work for me. What am I doing wrong?