{"id":1214,"date":"2020-09-02T18:28:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T18:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/02\/sort-category-products-in-magento-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T11:52:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T06:22:16","slug":"sort-category-products-in-magento-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/sort-category-products-in-magento-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Sort Category Products in Magento 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An E-commerce store is a shopping platform for customers looking out for various products and it is a part of better user experience to offer an online store that is easy to navigate and find the desired products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Customers may want to sort products based on price and name. Allowing customers to sort category products based on their interests makes it easy for them to shop online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moreover, making it easy and quick to find a particular product increases the chance of conversion and reduces the bounce rate. It prevents a potential customer to leave your site frustrated and jump over to your competitor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sorting products are useful for E-commerce store having so many products. It allows customers to find their desired products based on product attributes like price or name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the default Magento 2 provides three options for product listing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Product<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Position<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Name<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This post shows stepwise methods to&nbsp;<em><strong>sort category products in Magento 2<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Method to Sort Category Products in Magento 2:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Login<\/strong>&nbsp;Magento 2 admin panel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Navigate to&nbsp;<strong>Catalog &gt; Categories<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select the&nbsp;<strong>Store View<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Expand&nbsp;<strong>Display Setting&nbsp;<\/strong>section<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Go to&nbsp;<strong>Default Product Listing Sort By&nbsp;<\/strong>and select as per your requirement<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click&nbsp;<strong>Save Config<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Sort-Category-Products-in-Magento-2.png\" alt=\"Method 1 - Sort Category Products in Magento 2\" class=\"wp-image-10283\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The default sorting option is \u201cPosition\u201d and you can change the default sorting option.<br>Make sure that when you choose sorting option, you have to set the position from&nbsp;<strong>\u201cProducts in Category\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;tab as shown below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Method-2-sort-category-products-in-Magento-2.png\" alt=\"Method 2 - sort category products in Magento 2\" class=\"wp-image-10284\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s it. You can also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/configure-magento-2-product-listing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">configure product listing in Magento 2<\/a>&nbsp;from the backend to change how the products are displayed to the customers on the frontend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can also refer to the video tutorial to Sort Category Products in Magento 2 from our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLBTOxSAJzwEjM5MilmEqj98Ib80tKBu7r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Magento 2 video tutorial<\/a>&nbsp;series:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Sort Category Products in Magento 2\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/skfpZg3yywM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, do share the tutorial with the Magento 2 community via social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An E-commerce store is a shopping platform for customers looking out for various products and it is a part of better user experience to offer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magento"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14698,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/14698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}