Any way to sort alphabetically by vendor?

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Hello. I am trying to get my store to sort alphabetically by vendor. It’s an online record store and I would like it to sort by artist’s last name, so Miles Davis sorts before Art Pepper (under D and P respectively instead of M and A). Since I can’t do this by SKU, or by product title without using the names “Davis, Miles” and “Pepper, Art” (or even worse something like “Beatles, The”) I was hoping I could enter the names in Vendor that way and sort them like that. I am using the Debut theme but am open to switching if there’s a way to do this. Thanks!

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Something like this should get a list of vendors by alphabet

{% assign chars = '' %}
{% for vendor in shop.vendors %}
    {% capture first_char %}{{ vendor | truncate: 1, ''  | upcase}}{% endcapture %}

    {% if forloop.first %}
        <div>
            <ul id="vendorlist">
    {% endif %}

    {% unless chars contains first_char %}
        {% unless forloop.first %}
              <div style="clear:both;"></div>
               </ul>
            </div>
        {% endunless %}

        <div>
            <h2>{{ first_char }}</h2>
               <ul>
        {% capture temp %}{{ chars }}{{ first_char }}{% endcapture %}
        {% assign chars = temp %}
    {% endunless %}

    <li><a href="/collections/vendors?q={{ vendor }}&sort_by=created-descending">{{vendor | capitalize}}</a></li>
{% endfor %}
3

Hi Thomas,

Mybe you can help me:

this code works for us but I would like to split in in 3 or 4 columns.

Do you know how ?

{% assign counter = 0 %}
{% for vendor in shop.vendors %}
{% assign counter = counter | plus: 1 %}
{% endfor %}

{% assign counter_divided_by_3 = counter | divided_by: 3 | floor %}

    {{ page.content }}

    {% assign chars = ‘’ %}
    {% for vendor in shop.vendors %}
    {% capture first_char %}{{ vendor | truncate: 1, ‘’ | upcase}}{% endcapture %}

    {% if forloop.first %}

      {% endif %}

      {% unless chars contains first_char %}
      {% unless forloop.first %}

    {% endunless %}

    {{ first_char }}

      {% capture temp %}{{ chars }}{{ first_char }}{% endcapture %} {% assign chars = temp %} {% endunless %}
    • {{vendor | capitalize}}
      • {% endfor %}