WooCommerce: Sort Cart Items Alphabetically A>Z

Your WooCommerce shopping cart might look messy when it contains many products. Your specific business, besides, might require you buy “Part 1” first and “Part 2” after.

A way to tidy up the WooCommerce shopping basket is – for example – to sort products based on their title, from A to Z. As usual, this can be done with a few lines of PHP, even if you have no clue about coding… feel free to copy, paste, and enjoy the snippet 🙂

Sort WooCommerce Cart Products Alphabetically

PHP Snippet: Sort Products Alphabetically @ WooCommerce Cart

/**
* @snippet       Sort Products Alphabetically @ WooCommerce Cart
* @how-to        Get CustomizeWoo.com FREE
* @author        Rodolfo Melogli
* @testedwith    Woo 3.7
* @donate $9     https://businessbloomer.com/bloomer-armada/
*/

add_action( 'woocommerce_cart_loaded_from_session', 'bbloomer_sort_cart_items_alphabetically' );

function bbloomer_sort_cart_items_alphabetically() {

// READ CART ITEMS
$products_in_cart = array();
foreach ( WC()->cart->get_cart_contents() as $key => $item ) {
$products_in_cart[ $key ] = $item['data']->get_title();
}

// SORT CART ITEMS
natsort( $products_in_cart );

// ASSIGN SORTED ITEMS TO CART
$cart_contents = array();
foreach ( $products_in_cart as $cart_key => $product_title ) {
$cart_contents[ $cart_key ] = WC()->cart->cart_contents[ $cart_key ];
}
WC()->cart->cart_contents = $cart_contents;

}

Where to add this snippet?

You can place PHP snippets at the bottom of your child theme functions.php file (delete "?>" if you have it there). CSS, on the other hand, goes in your child theme style.css file. Make sure you know what you are doing when editing such files - if you need more guidance, please take a look at my free video tutorial "Where to Place WooCommerce Customization?"

Does this snippet (still) work?

Please let me know in the comments if everything worked as expected. I would be happy to revise the snippet if you report otherwise (please provide screenshots). I have tested this code with Storefront theme, the WooCommerce version listed above and a WordPress-friendly hosting on PHP 7.3.

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Author, WooCommerce expert and WordCamp speaker, Rodolfo has worked as an independent WooCommerce freelancer since 2011. His goal is to help entrepreneurs and developers overcome their WooCommerce nightmares. Rodolfo loves travelling, chasing tennis & soccer balls and, of course, wood fired oven pizza.

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16 thoughts on “WooCommerce: Sort Cart Items Alphabetically A>Z”

Rafael
May 6, 2022

Hi Rodolfo,
Thanks for this snippet! It worked like a charm!
May I ask for your help to do the same on the order received page?
It seems it uses a different hook and I couldn’t find out how to make this work.
Thanks in advance!

Reply
1. Rodolfo Melogli
  May 15, 2022
  
  Hi Rafael, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!
  
  Reply
rio
April 13, 2021

Hi,
Is it possible to sort the order item name and by line_total?

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  April 20, 2021
  
  Hi Rio, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!
  
  Reply
Sam Still
December 3, 2019

Hi there, how would i go about if i wanted to order by categories for example a restaurant might want starters to be at the top and mains after so that it is organised. Love to hear back from you.

Regards Sam

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  December 6, 2019
  
  Hi Sam, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!
  
  Reply
David
April 14, 2019

Is possible to sort the product as [AaBbCc] instead of [ABCabc]?

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  April 19, 2019
  
  Hello David, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!
  
  Reply
Gerry
September 13, 2018

Would you know how to change this to order by product category? I’ve made a few attempts, but I am not very familiar with woocommerce coding.

Thanks to anyone who can help.

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  September 20, 2018
  
  Hello Gerry – thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is possible – but unfortunately this is custom work and I cannot provide a complementary solution here via the blog comments. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding! ~R
  
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Daniel pallares
May 23, 2018

Hi!
Last year I was looking for something like this, only shorted by Id or Shipping, it’s easy to change to any other data.
Thank you so much!!

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  May 28, 2018
  
  Excellent 🙂
  
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Roberta
April 19, 2018

It works!

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  April 24, 2018
  
  Yay 🙂
  
  Reply
Nick Ginargiros
April 18, 2018

Hi Rodolfo,

Thank you for your code snippet.

It worked like a charm!

Reply
1. Rodolfo Melogli
  April 24, 2018
  
  Excellent, thank you Nick 🙂
  
  Reply

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