Category sorting on Main page?

  • Resolved vitsippa

    (@vitsippa)


    5 years, 4 months ago

    Hi, how can I achieve a sorted category list on the main Catalog page in Simple mode?

    We use Simple mode and Modern grid. On our main Catalog page (our products starting page) our main categories are listed. That´s good, but I can not sort them in the order I want.

    When I use [show_product_catalog] they show alphabetic.
    If I put [show_categories_include=”34,76,324…” orderby=”none”] after the main shortcode I first obviously have the alphabetic list of categories, followed by a list sorted the way I like.

    But if I only use [show_categories_include=”34,76,324…” orderby=”none”] on this main Catalog page it gets messy. After the nicely sorted categories every product show up, and also the page seem to lose the “main catalog” status since it is in simple mode but doesn´t contain [show_product_catalog].
    Cab I achieve a sorted category list on the main product page in simple mode? We have a child theme to use.

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  • Plugin Author ndre

    (@ndre)

    5 years, 4 months ago

    Hello @vitsippa,

    It looks like you should uncheck the “Enable Main Listing Page” checkbox in the catalog general settings and use the two shortcodes. Did you try it?

    Thread Starter vitsippa

    (@vitsippa)

    5 years, 4 months ago

    Well, that almost works. If I do that I will have only the sorted main categories on the catalog starting page as I want, good.

    But now the sorted list of the main categories also show up at the end of every category page and every single product page…
    I don´t see any change when I try different settings for “Category page shows” and “Show related”.
    And if I try without the [show_product_catalog] the loop goes wrong and sends me to the front page…

    Since this is no biggie I will drop this issue (and maybe try more in the future).
    I still enjoy using your plugin! 🙂

    If anyone want to try with better luck, the code I wrote above has a typo!!
    It should be:
    [show_categories include=”34,76,324…” orderby=”none”]

    Plugin Author ndre

    (@ndre)

    5 years, 4 months ago

    If you don’t want them to show up on every catalog page you can:

    1. Remove the [show_product_catalog] shortcode and switch the catalog mode to advanced in catalog general settings
    OR
    2. Use the default categories display with [show_product_catalog] (Enable Main Listing Page) and Taxonomy Order plugin to set the correct order.

    Thread Starter vitsippa

    (@vitsippa)

    5 years, 4 months ago

    Yes, I have tried 1, but not with the result I wanted without lots of more work. 2 sounds promising.
    I mark this as solved, as there are many good solutions (and maybe just a glitch on my side of the table…)

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