Per Category Product Ordering

Per Category Product Ordering gives you a dedicated, focused screen to arrange products inside each WooCommerce category exactly the way you want them, by dragging and dropping. Lead with your best sellers, push seasonal items to the top, group related products together, or feature high-margin items first, one category at a time.

Your custom order is applied on the category archive only when the shopper is viewing with Default sorting (menu order). The moment a visitor chooses Price, Popularity, Rating, or Latest, WooCommerce takes over again, so you never fight your customers‘ own sorting choices.

What you can do

• Open any product category and see all of its products in one sortable list.
• Drag products into the precise order you want, then save with one click (no page reload).
• See a thumbnail, product name, SKU, stock status, and price for every product, so you are merchandising with the full picture in front of you.
• Filter the list as you type to find a product fast in large categories.
• Turn the custom order on or off per category with a single switch, without losing the arrangement you saved.
• Tell at a glance which categories already have a custom order, right from the category picker.

How it works

The plugin stores a saved order and an on/off flag per category (as term meta on each product_cat). On the front end it adjusts the ordering of that category’s archive page only, and only for the „Default sorting“ option. The ordering change is scoped to the page’s main query, so your related products, up-sells, cross-sells, and product widgets keep their normal behavior. Nothing else on your store is touched.

Why not just use global menu order?

Global menu order changes ordering everywhere at once and is awkward to manage product by product. This plugin lets you curate specific categories on their own, without changing your global product order and without overriding the sort options your shoppers select.

Built to be safe and lightweight

• No global settings page and no bloat. One screen under WooCommerce, scoped assets that load only there.
• Reads products efficiently and never alters core WooCommerce data destructively.
• Translation ready.
• Clean uninstall: removes its saved settings if you delete the plugin.