Hi! I need to be able to sort items in a collection by publish date NOT by created date. Are there any apps for this or is there a reasonably easy way to do this by adjusting the code for that collection? We use the debut theme. I see a lottttt of people have asked for this feature over a lot of yea…

@thevault It depends on where you want this sorting to happen. For example if its the /collections/all the code responsible for that page is in sections/collection-template.liquid. It should be somewhere between line 145 - 170, but i’m not sure because of which version of Debut you are using.

Thanks! I found it, and it definitely changed the sorting but to what I can’t tell… Items def aren’t in descending order by publish date because some from 4/17 are at the top of the first page and 4/18 is after…there are also strange empty spaces in the grid now. Are date and time both taken into c…

@thevault product.published_at - Returns a timestamp for when a product was published on a store. https://shopify.dev/docs/themes/liquid/reference/objects/product#product-published_at

good to know, but the code you sent me still didn’t work. It left all sorts of blank spaces in the grid where items should be, but weren’t showing, and wasn’t in descending order. I’m not 100% what the order actually was..but the more I think it over, it seems like descending order was used to decid…

@thevault the code i shared is an example to show the logic. Without knowing what code or which template you are referring to (or at-least a URL) , it will create issues when you copy paste.

Hey there! You can try using our app Advanced Collection - https://apps.shopify.com/advanced-custom-collections - it supports sorting single or all collections by publish date on the backend - there is a free trial of 7 days. Usually sorting on the frontend i.e. via theme code can lead to issues wit…

Were you able to resolve this? I just migrated an existing store to shopify and all of our products now have the exact same date created and date published, and there’s no way to edit the created or publish date to be back dated in order to fix our sorting from newest to oldest. It’s a HUGE nightmar…

Hey @NattyIce311 , while you can’t change the created date, you can set the published date to ‘now’ by setting the product to draft, and then publishing it. Assuming that you are going to curate e.g. the first 100 products, you can do that starting from the product you want to be sorted for the 100t…

@kpvw that’s unfortunately not answering the question that was asked. The problem is that Shopify only allows to sort by CREATION date. But creation date cannot be changed after it has been created. Merchant wants now to SORT by publishing date, because s/he has more control over publishing date. …

How can I sort collection items by publish date, not created date?

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thevault April 19, 2020, 4:54pm 11

Debut theme and here is one of our collections we need sorted by publish date (though we really need them all to be) https://www.thevaultcollective.com/collections/swift-faire

thanks for the help!

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How can I sort collection items by publish date, not created date?

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