how woocommerce manages the sorting of products with the same name

ID will be used if the product name is the same.

Hi @alberto76!

As @vijayhardaha already stated, if various products share the same name, they will be sorted according to their Product ID.

The system generates a Product ID whenever you create a product, and you can find it in the Products section under the name of the product.

More about it here: https://woocommerce.com/document/managing-products/#product-id.

Cheers!

Hi,

thank you @vijayhardaha and @judagutor for your answer, I undestand, is it possible to create a code to say to order products by name and in case of equal name use a custom field that I put inside all products.

Do you know any documentation about this?

thank you

name for sorting will be used for database value. so if you’re using any filter to change the product title it won’t make any difference in sorting.

I think I didn’t explain well, I would like to create a new kind of sorting, a function with two parameters, using name and for the products that have the same name a data specified in a custom field.

If you’re talking about sorting by meta value along with product title then you can set orderby like this

'orderby' => 'title meta_value ',

you can also use something like this 'orderby', array( 'title' => 'DESC' , 'meta_value' => 'DESC' )

Thank you,

with your suggestion I solved a part of proble.
Now I need to study how take only number into meta_value, that it’s format from string+number.

Hey @alberto76

Just to mention, if you do require more help with the actual coding, we’d recommend hiring a developer or one of the customization experts listed at https://woocommerce.com/customizations/.