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…

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. …

@bredowmax actually I am answering to @NattyIce311 's query about the inability to change created / published date, you can take a look at the previous post. As for sorting by publishing date, we do have an app Advanced Collections to help with that - https://apps.shopify.com/advanced-custom-collec…

Ah, sorry in that case. While the circumstance is annoying, I solved it myself through Mechanic, which I already use for other tasks.

If anyone still looking for a solution, there’s no need for an app. Keep reading. Here is a piece of code that will prepare the collection’s products in the correct order by publish date instead of creation. This will work whenever someone will change the sort_by= parameter to either created_ascen…

Hi would just like to say thank you, this is brilliant. Note to anyone else implementing this (with apologies if I’m stating the obvious)… You need to find a line in your code like {%- for product in collection.products -%} and insert the code snippet immediately above it. For me this is in coll…

@Itai-Koren I tried your suggestion and it seemed to work for the most part. My problem now is I have one product that I had to separate from a variant to make it a solo product. When I deleted the variant product and re-imported the solo product shopify thinks it’s new (This is expected due to the…

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

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

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