Comments on: Changing default category sort order in Magento

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).

By: toniyecla

toniyecla — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:30:15 +0000

the tip is to avoid Position order (almost not be default)

regards!

By: ANDiTKO

ANDiTKO — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:05:28 +0000

For magento 1.4 chage line 119 ( /app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Product/List/Toolbar.php )to:
protected $_direction = ‘desc’;

By: toniyecla

toniyecla — Thu, 20 May 2010 22:06:06 +0000

please try to comment this in app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Model/Config.php:

public function getAttributeUsedForSortByArray()
{
$options = array(
// ‘position’ => Mage::helper(‘catalog’)->__(‘Position’)
);
foreach ($this->getAttributesUsedForSortBy() as $attribute) {
/* @var $attribute Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Attribute_Abstract */
$options[$attribute->getAttributeCode()] = $attribute->getStoreLabel();
}

return $options;
}

By: dan

dan — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:30:56 +0000

The code for $this->_availableOrder isn’t there in 1.3.2.4. Instead, it sets it to simply ‘array()’, and $this->_availableOrder is set in the construct, by calling $this->_getConfig()->getAttributeUsedForSortByArray(); This hits the database for all attributes that are considered sortable, then builds a list based on that. It’s also not possible to override it as $this->_availableOrder is also ‘reset’ when Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List kicks in (around line 150, there’s a $toolbar->setAvailableOrders). *sigh*
Any clues how to get around this?
Thanks

By: stevefox

stevefox — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:57:40 +0000

in the last version we can set the default sort order between 3 deicded attribute best value name and price … that’s ok thank to the system config menu….. if we want to change the same about search result which is the best solution ??? which is exactly relevance ???

By: Scalesmart

Scalesmart — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:50:11 +0000

This is bugging me as well. I can’t seem to get it to work by price.

It’s all messed up – http://www.scalesmart.co.uk/bench-scales/counting-scales?order=price&dir=asc

This this a Magento problem or an Andrew problem?!

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:48:08 +0000

@Daniel: Yep, changed again.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:43:28 +0000

Well that doesn’t seem to work for latest Magento version.
My toolbar.php doesn’t have any of that sort of code

By: simon

simon — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:50:51 +0000

That was great! Just changing the position number in the category products tab works perfect. This way I don’t have to be messing around with coding.

Thanks a lot!

By: Andres Galindo

Andres Galindo — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:18:59 +0000

Just wanted yo let you know – it helped. Thanks.

By: kim

kim — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:59:58 +0000

Thanks very very much…!!!
its helped me so much.
thanks i’m delight

By: CK Rock

CK Rock — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:53:55 +0000

For those of you who don’t want to alter the core code, adding this to the /app/design/frontend/default/[theme]/layout/catalog.xml file seems to work:


    

    name

This would make your code “upgrade-proof”. Feel free to correct this if it’s wrong.

By: choise

choise — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:31:05 +0000

does not work with 1.3.x
there was an option embedded in the configuration menu for changing the sort order. in 1.3.0 there is a bug, so the sort order is alwas “best value”. updating to 1.3.1 will fix this problem.

By: prits

prits — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:37:09 +0000

I want the same but for Search Result. When I search anything in Search box, it return the Product List with Sort By option “Relevance”. I want to make “Name” as a default sort option instead of “Relevance”. Please suggest me..

By: Paaaaa

Paaaaa — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:48:53 +0000

yes, that helped. thanks!