I’m currently trying to figure out if there is any way to have categories and sub-categories behave differently in terms of sort order. We’re using /categories as our home page and due to the nature of our products, certain categories are likely to have hundreds of sub-categories. I’ve managed to limit the number of sub-categories shown on the main category page using CSS but I’d like for these sub-categories in the “Rolling stock products” category (say Top 5 or 10) to be ordered by latest activity whilst keeping the higher level category order intact. [categoryorder] Is this possible? Thanks in advance for any help.

[image] Tom_Newhouse: certain categories are likely to have hundreds of sub-categories. We don’t recommend using that number of categories. [image] What's the maximum number of categories we can have? Development 500 to 1000 is safe If you need more consider tags Additionally you can have a very large number of groups

It’s well within the limits that Sam mentioned in his post. Is there an actual solution to the question at hand though?

Different category and sub-category order behaviour

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Falco (Falco) February 10, 2020, 5:39pm 4

You will need a custom theme-component to get that behavior.

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Different category and sub-category order behaviour

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