How To Manually Sort Products Across Pages

Hi @texasstone

Thank you for reaching out — we’re happy to help!

Screen options will only allow for me to view 999 products at one time. I can manually sort within each page just fine

Could you please provide us with a screenshot, so that we can see what you are describing?

If you don’t already have a screenshot service installed, https://snipboard.io is a good option – for uploading it there, and sharing the link here afterward.
There is also a walkthrough guide here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/make-a-screenshot/

Moreover, have you already tried editing the dates they were published, instead of manually dragging, or otherwise? I find this a pretty straight-forward way to ensure order.

I hope this helps!

It won’t let me do more than 999 on screen options, so I’m not sure how to manually move a product from page 2 to page 1 since I have 2.8k products.

In a perfect world I could just have a way to sort products by ascending width based on the product attribute decimalwidth. I tried putting some code from Chat GPT in the functions.php file of my theme to accomplish this but it didn’t work.

Hi @texasstone,

It won’t let me do more than 999 on screen options, so I’m not sure how to manually move a product from page 2 to page 1 since I have 2.8k products.

Generally speaking, you can change the order a product shows in your Products page in the back end by changing the product’s published date (as this is the default sorting):

In a perfect world I could just have a way to sort products by ascending width based on the product attribute decimalwidth. I tried putting some code from Chat GPT in the functions.php file of my theme to accomplish this but it didn’t work.

This is interesting, and it could be a great approach. To allow sorting for this specific custom attribute of yours. As you know this isn’t a default WooCommerce option, but I’m sure a quick Google Search can point you in the right direction!

If you are still having problems, it’s best to ask for insight related to this change on either the?WooCommerce Advanced Facebook group?or the?WooCommerce Community Slack. Many of our developers hang out there and will be able to offer insights into your question. You can also seek help from the following:

• A local web developer
• Codeable.io
• WooExperts

I wish I could help more, but hopefully, this gets you going in the right direction to get some further insight/information.

Cheers!
-OP

Hi,
You can easily do that using the Advanced Post Types Order plugin. Mainly you have to activate the Pagination option with Offset posts, so you can drag & drop from other page into the current list. More details regarding the feature can be found at Optimize Your WooCommerce Store products sorting with Advanced Post Types Order Plugin

Thanks