Sarathlal N

Remove WooCommerce default product sorting options

The default WooCommerce product sorting drop down list has 6 sorting options,

  1. Default Sorting.
  2. Sort by popularity.
  3. Sort by average rating.
  4. Sort by newness.
  5. Sort by price: low to high.
  6. Sort by price: high to low.

Now we are going to remove some of them in our shop by using WooCommerce filter hook, woocommerce_catalog_orderby. Add below code snippet to your theme’s functions.php file.

// Modify the default WooCommerce orderby dropdown

function my_woocommerce_catalog_orderby( $orderby ) {
	unset($orderby["menu_order"]);	// Remove "Default sorting"
	unset($orderby["popularity"]);	// Remove "Sort by popularity"
	unset($orderby["rating"]);		// Remove "Sort by average rating"
	unset($orderby["date"]);		// Remove "Sort by newness"
	unset($orderby["price"]);		// Remove "Sort by price: low to high"
	unset($orderby["price-desc"]);	// Remove "Sort by price: high to low"
	return $orderby;
}
add_filter( "woocommerce_catalog_orderby", "my_woocommerce_catalog_orderby", 20 );

The above code will unset all options in dropdown list. So only unset the items you don’t need.

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