Date order in admin overrides WooCommerce variation order

[mtruitt]

Problem is below. Dates force frontend to display in order dates are in via the admin and does not honor the actual variation order.

So in this example it will always display May, March, Feb, July

Though my variation order is March, Feb, July, May.

[mtruitt]

Closing this as I found a way around it.

[ajlowndes]

hey mtruitt how did you find a way around this? I am battling the same issue and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to change the order of the dates in the front end dropdown.

[ajlowndes]

found this "sort alphabetically" snippet here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-the-order-of-variations/

add_filter('woocommerce_dropdown_variation_attribute_options_html', function ($html) {
    $xml = simplexml_load_string($html);

    $select = array('id'               => (string)$xml->attributes()['id'],
                    'name'             => (string)$xml->attributes()['name'],
                    'attribute_name'   => (string)$xml->attributes()['data-attribute_name'],
                    'show_option_none' => (string)$xml->attributes()['data-show_option_none']);

    $options = array();
    foreach($xml->option as $option) {
        $options[] = array('text'     => (string)$option,
                           'value'    => (string)$option->attributes()['value'],
                           'selected' => (string)$option->attributes()['selected'] === 'selected');
    }

    usort($options, function ($a, $b) {
        return strcmp($a['value'], $b['value']);
    });

    $xml = simplexml_load_string('<select/>');
    $xml->addAttribute("id", $select["id"]);
    $xml->addAttribute("name", $select["name"]);
    $xml->addAttribute("data-attribute_name", $select["attribute_name"]);
    $xml->addAttribute("data-show_option_none", $select["show_option_none"]);

    foreach ($options as $option) {
        $child = $xml->addChild('option');
        $child->value = $option['text'];
        $child->addAttribute('value', $option['value']);
        if ($option['selected']) {
            $child->addAttribute('selected', 'selected');
        }
    }

    return $xml->asXML();
});