Magento2: Default to sort by price descending not ascending

Copy the file:

vendor/magento/module-catalog/view/frontend/layout/catalog_category_view.xml

to

app/design/frontend/{{Vender_Namespace}}/{{Theme_Name}}/Magento_Catalog/layout/catalog_category_view.xml

into your theme and add this to the file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" layout="2columns-left" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
    <body>
        <referenceContainer name="content">
            <referenceBlock name="category.products.list">
                <action method="setDefaultDirection">
                    <argument name="dir" xsi:type="string">desc</argument>
                </action>
            </referenceBlock>
        </referenceContainer>
        <move element="category.view.container" destination="content" before="-"/>
    </body>
</page>

The links that Manashvi point to the right locations in the core for the files that control this functionality, but they don't provide a solution. I didn't find this anywhere in the core code so i just took a guess based on the code in this file:

vendor/magento/module-catalog/Block/Product/ProductList/Toolbar.php

and used the syntax in other configuration in other .xml files.

I did try calling $block->setDefaultDirection('desc') in the file:

vendor/magento/module-catalog/view/frontend/templates/product/list/toolbar/sorter.phtml

file but this didn't work. I haven't tracked down why, but using the xml to set the default worked, so i just moved on.


You can use the shorter version as well. For specific categories you can use seperate files: catalog_category_view_id_X.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" layout="2columns-left" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
<body>
    <referenceBlock name="category.products.list">
        <action method="setDefaultDirection">
            <argument name="dir" xsi:type="string">desc</argument>
        </action>
    </referenceBlock>
</body>
</page>

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