How to Sort Category Products in Magento 2

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.

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.

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.

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.

However, the default Magento 2 provides three options for product listing.

• Product
• Position
• Name

This post shows stepwise methods to sort category products in Magento 2.

Method to Sort Category Products in Magento 2:

Login Magento 2 admin panel

1. Navigate to Catalog > Categories
2. Select the Store View
3. Expand Display Setting section
4. Go to Default Product Listing Sort By and select as per your requirement
5. Click Save Config

The default sorting option is “Position” and you can change the default sorting option.
Make sure that when you choose sorting option, you have to set the position from “Products in Category” tab as shown below:

That’s it. You can also configure product listing in Magento 2 from the backend to change how the products are displayed to the customers on the frontend.

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Thank you.