sort search results (or products list on category/products lists) by more/less recent products

[Beeta]

Hello,

is it possible to sort search results (or products list on category/products lists) by more/less recent products?

I think this is a "must-have" sorting option, don't you?

[wakabayashi]

Haha very funny, that yesterday I tried this 😂

Search in your theme for product-sort.tpl and add:

<option value="date_add:desc"{if $orderby eq 'date_add' AND $orderway eq 'desc'} selected="selected"{/if}>{l s='Newest first'}</option>

Please respond, if this works out well for you.

[shoptechmedia]

On 9/11/2019 at 7:49 PM, wakabayashi said:

Haha very funny, that yesterday I tried this 😂

Search in your theme for product-sort.tpl and add:

<option value="date_add:desc"{if $orderby eq 'date_add' AND $orderway eq 'desc'} selected="selected"{/if}>{l s='Newest first'}</option>

Please respond, if this works out well for you.

Thank you so much for sharing.. 🙂

[wakabayashi]

@shoptechmedia does it work for you?

[shoptechmedia]

yes.. we use similar line in our old tb and ps websites..per client request.. shame, that code should have been included in the core of ps 1.6 and tb 1.0.x .. 🙂

anyway, tb 1.1.x now uses layernavi, which I believe is an excellent move by tb for 1.1.x.. overall, the code is still useful for websites that uses ps 1.6 and tb 1.0.x

[KolS]

Hey guys, how we can add sort by "popularity"?

[wakabayashi]

Whatever you mean by "popularity" (?), it wont be easy, I guess.

[KolS]

On 5/14/2020 at 12:12 AM, wakabayashi said:

Whatever you mean by "popularity" (?), it wont be easy, I guess.

Like sort by total number of sales or sort by review ratings. Can't be done?

[datakick]

11 minutes ago, KolS said:

Like sort by total number of sales or sort by review ratings. Can't be done?

Everything can be done. This particular thing is quite hard, though. The code that handles product list sorting is very old, hardcoded, and distributed all over the codebase. Which makes it a nightmare to override.