Topic summary
The ‘Sort by Featured’ option in Shopify’s Venture (and similar) themes is based on the manual sort order of a collection. When products are manually arranged in the admin panel, that order becomes the ‘featured’ sort.
Key mechanics:
- If you manually sort a collection then switch to another sort (e.g., price low-to-high), ‘Sort by Featured’ will reflect the most recent manual arrangement.
- This works for individual collections but not for the ‘All Products’ page by default.
Common issue:
Many users find that ‘Sort by Featured’ displays products alphabetically on the main shop page (collections/all). This occurs because:
- The ‘All Products’ collection cannot be manually sorted in the standard way.
- A workaround involves creating a custom collection called ‘All’ and changing the catalog page settings to use it instead of the default collections/all.
Unresolved:
One user still seeks clarification on influencing the featured sort for all products without using a specific collection. The thread remains open on this point.