Sort products on a landing page

You can change the order of the products displayed on a landing page so that the most important products appear first. You can have the page sort automatically—for example, by newest or best-selling—or drag the products yourself into the order you want. You can also choose a default sort order that will be applied to all new landing pages.

Here’s how to sort

1. Go to Content → Landing Pages
2. Click Edit on the landing page you want to sort
3. Under Display Settings, select how you want the products sorted under Sort By—for example, by name, price, best-selling, or weight—and whether they should be displayed in Ascending or Descending order
4. Click Save

Sorting Options

The landing page sorts according to its own settings, or according to your own order if you’ve dragged the products into place (see “Customize the Order” below). The order of products within a category has no effect, even when the page retrieves products from a category.

• Name: alphabetically by product name
• Price and Sale Price: by product price or sale price
• Weighting: by product weighting. This is the default if you haven’t selected anything else
• Best Sellers: by how many units the product has sold
• Rating: by customer reviews
• Newest: by when the product was created. Select " Descending " to see the newest products at the top. With " Ascending," the oldest products appear first
• Product Score: by the product’s score
• In-stock items and images first: in-stock items with images appear first, followed by in-stock items without images, then sold-out items with images, and finally sold-out items without images. The order is fixed, so “Ascending” and “Descending” have no effect
• Random: products are displayed in random order

Customize the order

If you want the products to appear in a specific order, you can drag and drop them into place yourself. You do not need to select a new option under “Sort by.” As soon as the landing page has a saved order, it will use your order.

1. Go to Content → Landing Pages
2. Click the Product Order icon (four horizontal lines) on the landing page’s row. You can also open the landing page and click Product Order in the top-right corner
3. Drag the products into the order in which they should appear. Grab the handle on the left side of the row
4. The order is saved as soon as you release the product, and the store displays it immediately

In the overview, the icon appears in a small colored box on the landing pages that use your custom order. If there’s a number next to the icon—for example, 4—that’s the number of products on the page that haven’t been assigned a spot yet. Hover your mouse over the icon to see how many of the page’s products have been sorted. The exact number is always shown in the blue box on the sorting page.

When your custom order is enabled, it also appears on the edit page under “Sort by,” along with the “View product order” link. The sorting there applies only to products that haven’t been assigned a spot.

The Sorting Page

The Product Order page, referred to here as the sorting page, displays the products as they currently appear on the landing page, along with their weight, image, name, and price. At the top, a blue box indicates whether your custom order is enabled and how many products have been sorted. Products without a position have the yellow “Not Sorted” label and a blank field in the “Weight” column.

If you drag a product, all products in the list are assigned a position, and the weight fields are filled in with 10, 20, 30, and so on. If the page has more than 2,500 products, only the first 2,500 are displayed here, and the rest appear after them.

Assign a specific position to only some products

You don’t have to drag. You can also enter a number in the “Weight ” field next to the products that should have a fixed position and click “Save.” The lowest number appears at the top. If you leave the field blank, the product has no designated spot and appears at the bottom according to the landing page’s sorting order. If you clear a field and save, the product loses its designated spot.

This way, you can, for example, place three products at the top and let the rest follow the page’s regular sorting order. Remember that if you later drag a product, all products in the list will be assigned a position. The same thing happens when you later save rules or sorting on the landing page (see below). If you want the rest to follow the page’s sorting again, click “Reset Manual Order” and re-enter the weight next to your few products.

The weighting here applies only to this landing page. It has nothing to do with the product’s own weighting (Weighting under “Sort by”) or with the order in your categories.

New products on the page

The landing page still selects its products based on the rules. If new products are added—for example, new items that meet the rules—they won’t automatically be assigned a spot. They appear at the bottom according to the landing page’s sorting order—that is, what you’ve selected under “Sort By”—and are included in the count shown by the icon in the overview. If you want them to appear in a specific spot, open the sorting page and drag them into place.

When you save rules or sorting

If you save changes to rules or sorting on a landing page with your own order, all products without a designated spot will be assigned a fixed spot at the bottom, in the order they currently appear. This happens:

• When you add, edit, or delete a rule. Rules are saved automatically, so this happens immediately
• When you change “Sort By,”“Ascending/Descending,” the filters for inventory, sales, ratings, or images, or the option between “All rules must match” and “At least one rule must match, ” and click “Save”

The landing page doesn’t look any different because of this, but the number next to the icon in the overview disappears.

If, for example, you change “Sort By,” the products that weren’t previously sorted will be sorted according to the new setting and will then be assigned a fixed position. Afterward, the sorting applies only to new products added to the page later. If you only edit text, images, or SEO fields, the order remains unchanged. This is also the case on landing pages that do not have a custom order.

Products That Disappear from the Page

If a product is removed from the landing page—for example, because it’s sold out, taken offline, or no longer meets the rules—it retains its position. If it returns, it will appear in the same spot again. The position is only removed when you permanently delete the product from the trash.

Where is the order used?

Your order is used on the landing page itself. In the built-in themes, it’s also used in sections of the Page Builder that display products from the landing page. If you copy the landing page using “Copy Selected” in the overview, the copy will inherit the order.

Reset Manual Order

If you want to return to the default sorting, click the red “Reset Manual Order” button at the bottom of the sorting page and confirm. Your entire order will be removed, and the landing page will once again sort only by “Sort By.” The button appears only when your custom order is enabled.

Default Sorting for New Landing Pages

For example, if you want all new landing pages to display the newest products first, you can select this option once instead of on each page:

1. Go to Content → Landing Pages
2. Click Settings in the top-right corner
3. Select the sort order and direction under “Default Sort Order for New Landing Pages,” e.g., “Newest” and “Descending”
4. Click Save

• This setting applies when you create a new landing page, including when it’s created via import or API
• Your existing landing pages will not be changed. You can edit them on each individual page
• You can always choose a different sorting order for a new landing page later
• If you copy a landing page using " Copy Selected," the copy will inherit the original’s sort order, rules, and manual order—not the default

Tips

• Select “Best Sellers” or “Newest” with “Descending” to display bestsellers or new arrivals at the top
• Use your own order to, for example, display products that belong together in a set next to each other, or to place the items featured in your current campaign at the top
• Consider using images on landing pages to make the page more appealing
• See also sorting products by category

Frequently Asked Questions

I can’t find “Manual” under Sort By. Where do I turn it on?

There’s no option to enable. Your custom order is applied as soon as the landing page has a saved order. Click the Product Order icon in the overview, or the Product Order link at the top of the landing page, and drag the products into place.

I have 200 products on the page. Do I need to sort them all?

No. Enter a number in the “Weight ” field next to the few products you want to appear at the top, leave the rest blank, and click “Save.” The others will follow the landing page’s default sorting order below them. Do not drag the list, as dragging assigns a position to all products. If you save rules or sorting later, the remaining products will also be assigned fixed positions. If you want them to follow the page’s default sorting again, reset the weights and re-enter them.

Can I undo it if I accidentally drag a product to the wrong spot?

There is no undo button because each drag is saved immediately. Drag the product back to its original position, or correct the weight and click Save. If you want to return completely to the standard sorting order, click Reset Manual Order.

I changed “Sort by” to “Sale Price,” but the order hardly changed. Why?

When the page uses your custom order, “Sort By” applies only to products without a position. If you want the entire page sorted by sale price, reset your order on the sorting page.

The number next to the icon disappeared when I saved a new rule. Did I mess something up?

No. When you save rules or sorting settings, products without a position are assigned a fixed position at the bottom, in the order they were originally listed. The page looks the same, but there are no longer any products without a position, which is why the number disappears.

Does the order also apply when the store is displayed in another country or in another language?

Yes, the order is the same everywhere. If you’ve hidden a product in a specific country, it simply won’t appear there, and the others will move up.

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