product order on category pages

[Gary]

Is there a way to automatically reverse the order of products in a category
so the last ones added show up on the first page? When we add a product it
gets added to the end of the last page and it would be nice to have an
option to have new items go to the top of the first page.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Gary

[jim]

There is no automatic way to reverse the order of products. There are a
couple of things you might try.
1. Create a page just for new products and have a link to it from the
home page and maybe other pages.
2. Put a comment in the product name with something that will sort
before later products and use the sort option to change the order. So a
product name would be like <!-- aaa -->Name is here. The comment won't
be visible on the store pages but it might make it easier to sort. ONce
the product is no longer new just remove the comment part and it will
sort alphabetically again.

Jim
Gary wrote:

Is there a way to automatically reverse the order of products in a category
so the last ones added show up on the first page? When we add a product it
gets added to the end of the last page and it would be nice to have an
option to have new items go to the top of the first page.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Gary

[Gary]

Thanks. We already to #1, but I will try #2 and see how it works.
Interesting idea.

Gary

"jim" <jstavast@xmission.com> wrote in message
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There is no automatic way to reverse the order of products. There are a
couple of things you might try.
1. Create a page just for new products and have a link to it from the
home page and maybe other pages.
2. Put a comment in the product name with something that will sort
before later products and use the sort option to change the order. So a
product name would be like <!-- aaa -->Name is here. The comment won't
be visible on the store pages but it might make it easier to sort. ONce
the product is no longer new just remove the comment part and it will
sort alphabetically again.

Jim
Gary wrote:
Is there a way to automatically reverse the order of products in a
category
so the last ones added show up on the first page? When we add a product
it
gets added to the end of the last page and it would be nice to have an
option to have new items go to the top of the first page.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Gary