--- title: "Ordering products on your storefront" description: "Organizing your products is an important factor in increasing the user-friendliness of your store." url: "https://docs.j2commerce.com/catalog/ordering-products-on-your-storefront" markdown_url: "https://docs.j2commerce.com/catalog/ordering-products-on-your-storefront.md" last_updated: "2026-10-23T02:33:38+00:00" version: "J2Store 4" breadcrumbs: - title: "Home" url: "https://docs.j2commerce.com/" - title: "Catalog" url: "https://docs.j2commerce.com/catalog" - title: "Ordering products on your storefront" url: "https://docs.j2commerce.com/catalog/ordering-products-on-your-storefront" --- # Ordering products on your storefront Organizing your products is an important factor in increasing the user-friendliness of your store. The following article describes how your products could be organized. ## Options available: [**Step 1:** Ordering options could be found under Menus > Manage ![Joomla Menus list with Menus and Manage highlighted in the sidebar, and the Published count column highlighted for the Filters and Main Menu menus](https://docs.j2commerce.com/images/docs/shared/order-menu.webp) **Step 2:** Find your product in the sub menu. ![Joomla Menus: Items (Main Menu) list with the T-Shirts products tag view menu item highlighted under the Shop item](https://docs.j2commerce.com/images/docs/shared/order-sub-menu.webp) **Step 3:** Go to > Common options > Article order ![Menus: Edit Item for T-Shirts, Common Options tab highlighted, with the Article Order label highlighted above a dropdown set to Use Global](https://docs.j2commerce.com/images/docs/shared/order-article-order.webp)](https://docs.j2commerce.com/catalog/ordering-products-on-your-storefront#options-available) ### [The following are the options:](https://docs.j2commerce.com/catalog/ordering-products-on-your-storefront#options-available) [**Use global**: This would display the articles in the order as specified on the Joomla Global configuration (under System > Global Configuration > Articles > Shared > Article order). **Featured products (articles) first**: The products that are marked as featured would be listed first, followed by the others. **Most recent first**: The most recently created products/ articles would be listed first. **Oldest first**: This option would allow the products that are the oldest to be displayed first. **Title alphabetical**: With this option, you could sort your products based on their titles in alphabetical order. **Title reverse alphabetical**: This option would sort the products in reverse alphabetical order. **Author Alphabetical**: The products would be sorted based on their author names alphabetically. **Author reverse alphabetical**: Products will be ordered based on their author names in reverse alphabetical order. **Most hits**: The products that have received the most hits would be listed first. **Least hits**: The products with the fewest hits would appear first. **Article order**: The order in which they are sorted in the Content->articles part would be the order of the products at the frontend. **Step 4:** Go to the main menu for your product ![Joomla Menus: Items (Main Menu) list after the Menu item saved message, with the Shop products list menu item highlighted](https://docs.j2commerce.com/images/docs/shared/order-main-menu1.webp) **Step 5:** Open the main menu to your product > Common Options **Ordering Based On:** Use Category and Article ordering: With this option, you could sort your products based on the ordering of the Categories and also the products/articles within the Category, either in Ascending or Descending order. ![Menus: Edit Item for Shop, Common Options tab: Ordering Based On Use Category and Article Ordering, Ordering Direction and Category Ordering Direction Ascending, highlighted](https://docs.j2commerce.com/images/docs/shared/order-main-menu.webp) **Ordering Direction & Category Ordering Direction:** Choose whether the Product Articles should be ordered alphabetically from A to Z (ascending) or from Z to A (descending). The value you choose here should be the same as the one chosen under Content > Articles > Sort Table by: ![Joomla Articles list with Articles highlighted in the sidebar and the Ordering ascending sort selector highlighted at the top right](https://docs.j2commerce.com/images/docs/shared/order-article-ascending.webp) Similarly, for the category ordering direction, the value chosen at the menu should match the one chosen at the Content > Categories > Sort table by. ![Joomla Articles: Categories list with Categories highlighted in the sidebar and the Ordering ascending sort selector highlighted](https://docs.j2commerce.com/images/docs/shared/order-content-ascending.webp) **For Example,** let us consider that you have a Clothing store and there are two Categories, one as Men's Clothing with various products such as belts, hats, T-shirts, shirts, and so on, and the other as Women's Clothing with products as Tops, Skirts, Jeans, and so on. Let us assume that you wish to create a menu which displays all the products of all the above categories in the following category order: The products of the Men's category should be displayed in ascending order. Then the products of the Women's category should be listed in ascending order. Let us learn how this ordering can be achieved. ![Joomla Menus: Items (Main Menu) list with Menus and Main Menu highlighted in the sidebar and the Women's Clothing products list item highlighted](https://docs.j2commerce.com/images/docs/shared/order-main-ascending2.webp) 1) Go to Menu Manager > YOUR PRODUCT MENU > Common options tab. 2) Set the article ordering option to **Use category and article ordering.** ![Menus: Edit Item for Women's Clothing, Common Options tab: Ordering Based On set to Use Category and Article Ordering, Ordering Direction Ascending](https://docs.j2commerce.com/images/docs/shared/order-main-ascending.webp) 3) Set the option Ordering direction to Order ascending in the same tab. 4) Set the Category ordering direction to Order ascending in the same tab. ![Menus: Edit Item for Women's Clothing, Common Options tab, with Ordering Direction and Category Ordering Direction both set to Ascending and highlighted](https://docs.j2commerce.com/images/docs/shared/order-main-ascending1.webp) 4) Navigate to content >categories, sort the categories in alphabetical order by dragging and dropping them. *\*If the dragging dots are grayed out and don't move up and down then click on the little arrow above them to activate them.* 5) Set the option to **sort the table by** in the top left corner to **Ordering ascending** ![Joomla Articles: Categories list with Categories highlighted, the Ordering ascending selector, the ordering column header and drag handles highlighted](https://docs.j2commerce.com/images/docs/shared/order-rearrange.webp) 6) Similarly, navigate to Content > articles > set the sort table by option here as **ascending.** 7) Set the option to **sort the table by** in the top right corner to **Ordering ascending**. You can also rearrange the order. ![Joomla Articles list sorted by Ordering ascending, with the sort selector, the ordering column header and the drag handles highlighted](https://docs.j2commerce.com/images/docs/shared/order-article-ascending1.webp) 8) Now, at the frontend, all the products should be displayed as per the categories and products in ascending order. Video Tutorial](https://docs.j2commerce.com/catalog/ordering-products-on-your-storefront#the-following-are-the-options) [![Watch the video](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xV94OQWvpuY/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV94OQWvpuY)