Default sorting is not exactly user-friendly for customers visiting your e-commerce store. For most customers, “Sort by Relevance” is easier to understand, and comes across as “more welcoming” to visitors, particularly those who don’t shop online often. Ideally, you want your dropdown to default to something like the screenshot shown below of one of my clients’ websites. /** * Changing “Default Sorting” to “Sort by Relevance” on Shop and Product Category pages **/ function sip_update_sorting_name( $catalog_orderby ) { $catalog_orderby = str_replace(“Default sorting”, “Sort by Relevance”, $catalog_orderby); return $catalog_orderby; } add_filter( ‘woocommerce_catalog_orderby’, ‘sip_update_sorting_name’ ); add_filter( ‘woocommerce_default_catalog_orderby_options’, ‘sip_update_sorting_name’ ); If you prefer,

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