Comments on: Changing default category sort order in Magento

By: Jojo

Jojo — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:17:55 +0000

Obvioulsy and apparently no one is able to answer how do you IMPORT that And NOT fix it from the backend.!!!
Cheers

By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:45:59 +0000

Wow really? There’s a field right there and you can’t just put a number in there and sort by the number? Did anyone at Magento ever actually run a store? Apparently not.

As far as changing the oh-so-flexible sort values for the person above me, you OBVIOUSLY have to uncheck that box near the items so you can then select which one. Isn’t that totally obvious?

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:42:57 +0000

Doesn anybody know how to change to sort option from a drop down into simple words you can click. can’t seem to find the answer to this anywhere.

Cheers,

Tom.

By: phpguy

phpguy — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:19:00 +0000

how do I retrieve the the position for a category? Tried getting a product collection it doesn’t appear to be an attribute.

By: Aknal

Aknal — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:56:27 +0000

add below code below sort by foreach in toolbar.phtml

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:08:23 +0000

Is there a way to import product position using a CSV import?
every product will have a position # within a category.

Thanks

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:11:15 +0000

I have 2 questions, we are just about to launch a new site and we did a bulk upload of products.
1. I see on my category pages items are listed on pages 1,2 3 etc.. that I would like to switch with items on pages 12, 13, 14– does one need code for this or is this simple to do and how?
2. How can one add in show ALL?
Thanks you!

By: eggplanet(gowri)

eggplanet(gowri) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:03:35 +0000

Hello,
I am having price option in sort select box.But want to make it into two types .
1.Price:High to low(desc)
2.Price:Low to high (asc)

and also i would like to add my whishlist option in select list
Any suggestion . please

By: Maier

Maier — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:38:40 +0000

How would I turn this into a module? It should be easy to do this, basically i want to make a module that tells the system to use the local code of Toolbar.php instead of the mage core one.

Also does anyone know how to make it so no matter what products with qty < 1 are put in the back?

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 02:11:05 +0000

Are you aware of any good extensions that provide more options in this area? Something that automatically calculated profitability per item and put the most profitable items first would be fantastic… with both price and cost as variables within the product info, you’d need to combine that info with a calculation of run rate and you’d be away.

Oh, yes, if they could put out-of-stock items at the back then reintroduce them at their previous position when they’re back in stock that would be great!

Might also be helpful to introduce new products at a specific place… so they get views and aren’t buried… and then let them float.

By: CDA

CDA — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:57:03 +0000

does not work with 1.5.0.1

By: XSA

XSA — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:51:50 +0000

On my magento 1.4.1.0, it’s doesn’t work, nothing work to list by product position

By: Rafa Alves

Rafa Alves — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:04:46 +0000

Nice, tks for your help!

By: prajosh

prajosh — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:30:05 +0000

Great article.

Do u know how we can sort by newly ordered products as default ?

Thanks
Prajosh

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:31:33 +0000

1.5.1 changing the toobar.php line 119 protected direction to ‘desc’ does not change my default ascend on Sort by. Tried two different sites.

Can anyone suggest some code changes for toolbar.php line 397? Perhaps that will work for me. Or some other idea?

line 397
[public function setDefaultOrder($field)
{
if (isset($this->_availableOrder[$field])) {
$this->_orderField = $this->getEntityId();
}
return $this;
}]

Thanks; Bryan.

By: Chandlers

Chandlers — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:16:22 +0000

I found this worked great so long as there are not subcategories below, that contain products not listed in the category your sorting. For some reason these products are getting listed in the main category, ahead of the products your trying to sort! I’m not sure if this is a bug in Magento but its driving me nuts!!

By: Rob Willox

Rob Willox — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:54:29 +0000

Using 1.3.2.3 and can’t get the order to default to price desc. Have set the options globally in config and tried individual categories but the prices are still not either desc or asc.

Have tried once or twice and it has worked but reverts back to almost random order for no apparent reason, or one I can’t fathom.

Is it possible to code the default order to price desc but still keep the other user choices available?

Been going on for months now and can’t seem to sort! Would upgrading to most recent stable help or could it be some other issue?

regards

By: Manas Andhare

Manas Andhare — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 11:47:51 +0000

hey buddy, for magento 1.4.1.1

in app\code\core\Mage\Catalog\Model\Config.php

just remove

$options = array(
‘position’ => Mage::helper(‘catalog’)->__(‘Position’)
);

and you are done
there will be no sort order like position

By: sunil

sunil — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:07:13 +0000

Thanx a lot….

By: ANDiTKO

ANDiTKO — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:01:34 +0000

Well if you want to change the Default “order by” field, without coding you can in v1.4! Just from the Admin Settings.

For individual categories go to: Catalog>Manage Categories>(Pick the Category you want to change)>Display Settings>Default Product Listing Sort by> And Select some of the available fields

For the Global setting go to: System>Settings>Catalog>Frontend>Product listing sort by

Also, you can use custom fields to use as “order by”. In your Attribute creation there is the option “Used for sorting in product listing”. Set this to YES, and you will be able to sort your products by your custom Field (Attribute).