Display out-of-stock products last

WoodMart can keep purchasable products at the top of your WooCommerce catalog by placing products with the Out of stock status after all other products. The option works without custom code and preserves the selected catalog sorting within each stock-status group.

WoodMart shop grid moving out-of-stock products after available products — Out-of-stock products are displayed after available products in the catalog.

Enable out-of-stock sorting

1. Navigate to Dashboard -> Theme Settings -> Product archive.

2. Enable Show “Out of stock” products at the end (experimental).

3. Save the Theme Settings and check the product order on your shop or a product archive page.

Show Out of stock products at the end option in WoodMart Product archive settings — Enable the option in Theme Settings -> Product archive.

How the sorting works

Only products marked Out of stock are moved to the end. Products available on backorder remain with the purchasable products.

The selected WooCommerce catalog sorting remains active within both groups. For example, when customers sort by price from low to high, available products are ordered by price first, followed by out-of-stock products ordered in the same way.

If Hide out of stock items from the catalog is enabled in WooCommerce -> Settings -> Products -> Inventory, out-of-stock products are hidden and this option has no visible effect. See the WooCommerce product settings documentation for details.

Where the option applies

The option affects the main WooCommerce product query on the shop page and product archive pages, including product categories and tags. It also works in custom WooCommerce archive layouts when the Archive Products element displays the main product query.

It does not change the order of products displayed by standalone Products elements, product carousels, shortcodes, or other custom secondary queries.

This option is experimental because it changes the main WooCommerce product query. Plugins that replace catalog sorting, filtering, or query logic may override it or cause a conflict. If the order does not change, clear the website and CDN caches and check whether another plugin controls the catalog query.