Extra Product Sorting Options for WooCommerce
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About
Rename the default product sorting option, add up to 5 new sorting options including alphabetical and on-sale sorting, or remove core sorting options.
What It Does
Extra Product Sorting Options for WooCommerce lets store owners customize the default WooCommerce product sorting dropdown on shop and category pages. You can rename existing labels like "Default sorting" or "Sort by popularity," add up to five new options such as alphabetical, on-sale first, or random, and remove any core options that are not useful for your catalog. In practical terms, it gives a clothing store, a marketplace with thousands of SKUs, or a niche shop finer control over how shoppers browse products without writing custom code.
Who It's For
This plugin is best for WooCommerce store owners with large or varied catalogs where the default sort options do not match how customers actually shop, such as fashion retailers wanting on-sale first or alphabetical browsing, multi-vendor marketplaces that need more flexible ordering, and specialty shops wanting to hide irrelevant sort labels. It is also a good fit for non-developers who want a quick settings-page solution rather than hiring someone to write custom WooCommerce hooks.
Who Should Skip It
If you run a small WooCommerce store with under 50 products and the default sorting options already work fine, this plugin adds an extra settings layer you do not need. Developers comfortable writing a short child-theme snippet using the `woocommerce_catalog_orderby` filter can achieve the same result without adding another plugin to maintain.
The Bottom Line
Extra Product Sorting Options for WooCommerce is a focused, lightweight utility that does one thing and does it well, backed by a strong maintenance signal and a solid 79.21/100 overall quality score. The zero support threads is a mild concern, but the recent update against WordPress 6.9.4 and high user rating suggest the developer is keeping pace. If you specifically need custom sort labels or want to promote on-sale items, it is a worthwhile install; otherwise, the default WooCommerce sorting is probably enough.
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