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I want to sort the category filters alphabetically by name on my search results page.
Most answers suggest setting the position for every category. However, this seems rather manual. Is there another way to sort the category filters? Ideally through an option?
You can't do it through an option, but you could do it through code.
You would need to get access to the category collection by extending the Mage_Catalog_Block_Navigation class and overriding the getCurrentChildCategories() function to call setOrder('name') on $this->_currentChildCategories prior to returning it.
You can do it by editing/extending core code. However, I always like to avoid editing/extending core code.
You can go to catalog > category > manage categories section and re-adjust by pulling down/up as needed manually.
This will sort your categories. I know this is time consuming, but this is needed only once. After this, if you add any new category in future, just need to re-adjust that new one only.
Hope this helps.
