Magento – How to sort layered navigation attributes on Alphabetic order

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Trying to find a solution for the order of the attributes in layered navigation on the category list page.

Now I have to sort them in the attributes from backend, and it is not a good way with many entries.

How can I change the dropdown for the attributes to be sorted in 1-9 and a-z ? (not from backend)

Now it can be

B
P
8
A

When it should be

8
A
B
P

Thank you !

Best Answer

I will not give you the final solution but I will direct you to a place where you change the default behaviour.

So, if the attribute does not have a custom source it uses default source class which is \Magento\Eav\Model\Entity\Attribute\Source\Table. All of the attribute options are returned in a function getAllOptions($withEmpty, $defaultValues). If you check it, you will find that in this function an attributeOptionCollection is created on which a function setPositionOrder($dir, $sortAlpha) is called. In this function we have hardcoded sort order of the options collection - $this->setOrder('main_table.sort_order', $dir);

I can give you quick 2 options to make it work as you want it:

make a before plugin on \Magento\Eav\Model\ResourceModel\Entity\Attribute\Option\Collection::setPositionOrder and change the $sortAlpha variable to true - I am not sure how the sorting will behave, but it should be alphabeticaly
make and around/after plugin on \Magento\Eav\Model\ResourceModel\Entity\Attribute\Option\Collection::setPositionOrder and change the sorting the way you want

There are of course more options, you can also make plugins for \Magento\Eav\Model\Entity\Attribute\Source\Table::getAllOptions as well as you can override it (which I do not reccomend). Let me know which option you selected and good luck!

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