How To Remove, Rename Or Reorder Sorting Options On The Product Archive Pages

Here we learn about how to remove, rename or reorder sorting options on the product archive pages.

Custom code copied and paste into your child theme’s functions.php file.

1. Remove Default Options:

We can use one filter hook ‘woocommerce_catalog_orderby‘.

Below code example for remove default options.

<?php
add_filter( 'woocommerce_catalog_orderby', 'myblog_remove_default_sorting_options' ); 
function myblog_remove_default_sorting_options( $options ){ 
  unset( $options[ 'popularity' ] );
  //unset( $options[ 'menu_order' ] );
  //unset( $options[ 'rating' ] );
  //unset( $options[ 'date' ] );
  //unset( $options[ 'price' ] );
  //unset( $options[ 'price-desc' ] );
  
  return $options;
}
?>

The following list of default sorting options:

• $options[ ‘popularity’ ] – It Sort by popularity.
• $options[ ‘menu_order’ ] – If the custom order is not set – alphabetically.
• $options[ ‘rating’ ] – It Sort by average rating.
• $options[ ‘date’ ] – It Sort by latest.
• $options[ ‘price’ ] – It Sort by price: low to high.
• $options[ ‘price-desc’ ] – It Sort by price: high to low.

2. Rename the Default Sorting Options

we are using the same filter hook ‘woocommerce_catalog_orderby’.

If you rename ‘Sort by price: low to high’ to ‘Sort by price’.

Example:

<?php
add_filter( 'woocommerce_catalog_orderby', 'myblog_rename_default_sorting_options' );
function myblog_rename_default_sorting_options( $options ){	 
  $options[ 'price' ] = 'Sort by price'; // rename	 
  return $options;	 
}
?>

3. Change the Order of Sorting Options:

we can change the order of sorting options is to redefine ‘$options’ array.

Example:

<?php
add_filter( 'woocommerce_catalog_orderby', 'myblog_change_sorting_options_order', 5 ); 
function myblog_change_sorting_options_order( $options ){
 $options = array( 
    'menu_order' => __( 'Default sorting', 'woocommerce' ),
    'price'      => __( 'Sort by price', 'woocommerce' ),
    'date'       => __( 'Sort by latest', 'woocommerce' ),
    'popularity' => __( 'Sort by popularity', 'woocommerce' ),
    'rating'     => 'Sort by average rating', // __() is not necessary
    'price-desc' => __( 'Sort by price: high to low', 'woocommerce' ), 
  ); 
  return $options; 
}
?>

• I set the filter hook priority to 5 , If you set the hook priority to 99999.
• You can set option names directly in your language, without __() function.