Beside Categories and Tags, WooCommerce include another important way to group products, called Product attributes. This can be Color, Size, Model, Material, you name it. The WooCommerce Attributes is a requirement being used when set-up variable products.
Mainly there are two usage of this data type:
- Used along the “WooCommerce Layered Nav” widget, which works based on attributes. If used within site, customers can filter the products based on selected attribute.
- The other way to use the attributes is via Variable Products.
Sorting of WooCommerce products within Attributes is an easy task, this can be achieved through a drag & drop interface using either Simple Sort or Advanced Sort set-up. The easiest method would be to use simple set-up as it provide a single place to manage all existing attributes order in a single interface.
In this particular example, we created an attribute called Collection, the sorting interface appear like this:
Once the product sorting customization completed, the order will apply on front side accordingly.