Question

Is it possible to sort by A the position and then B these products alphabetically shown.

I have new products and sale products coming into a category and they show all the new ones first then all the sale ones.

But I need to sort this by name.

Answer 1

In admin

Go to Manage Categories, select the category, then on it’s products tab give each one a position number. They will be sorted according to that order.

Programmatically

You can do this by calling a product collection’s addAttributeToSort method for each ordering.

For example, wherever you see in a template, $_category->getProductCollection() or $_product->getCollection() you can then add ->addAttributeToSort('position')->addAttributeToSort('name') immediately after it.

addAttributeToSort() also takes a direction as a second parameter so you can have either addAttributeToSort('name', 'asc') or addAttributeToSort('name', 'desc').