Loop vendors on collection page - Sort by size or anything

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Topic summary

A user wants to create five buttons on a collection page to filter products by vendor, but needs to display the five most relevant vendors rather than an alphabetical list.

Current limitation:

  • Shopify’s collection.all_vendors only returns vendors alphabetically
  • The user needs to sort/filter vendors by relevance (such as vendor size or product count)

Attempted solution:
The user has created a Liquid loop that displays vendors with a 5-item limit, but cannot control the sorting criteria beyond alphabetical order.

Open question:
Seeking methods to sort or filter the vendor list by size, product count, or other relevance metrics instead of alphabetical order. No solutions or responses have been provided yet.

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Hello
I want to make five buttons on the collection page to sort/search by vendor. I’ve made a loop to display five vendors. But Shopify only allows me to take collection.all_vendors
This will just display it alphabetically and i need to show the five most relevant venders, by the size of the vendor or something like that.

I made this so far, but i don’t know if it is possible to filter/sort it by size or anything?


            {%  assign allevendor = collection.all_vendors %}

            {% for vendors in allevendor limit:5 %}
              {% if forloop.length > 0 %}
- ###### {{ vendors | upcase }} {{ collection.title | upcase }}
            
        
{% unless forloop.last %}{% endunless -%}
  {%- endif -%}
{% endfor %}