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WP PlugIndex currently records InStock First – Sold Out Products Last for WooCommerce version 1.0.0 as active, updated 17h ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Overview
About this plugin
Shoppers who land on a category full of “Out of stock” badges leave. InStock First keeps what you can actually sell at the top: in-stock products are shown first and sold-out products move to the end of the list, without hiding them (so you keep their SEO and customers can still sign up for restock alerts).
It works the moment you activate it. There is nothing to configure and nothing to re-run: the order is applied when the page loads, so a product that comes back in stock moves straight back up, and a product that sells out drops to the end on its own.
What it does (free, no limits)
Out of stock products last on the main shop page
Category, tag and attribute archives (every product taxonomy)
Product search results
[products] shortcode lists
Keeps your normal sorting inside each group: default/custom order, popularity, rating, newest, price low to high and high to low all still work
Backorders your way: treat them as in stock, put them between in-stock and sold-out, or treat them as sold out
Variable products are handled through WooCommerce’s own stock status (a variable product is “out of stock” only when all its variations are)
No catalog changes: it never edits products, menu order or dates, so deactivating it puts everything back exactly as it was
Fast: one indexed join on WooCommerce’s product lookup table, no extra queries per product, no cron jobs, no background processing
Works with any theme that uses standard WooCommerce product loops
HPOS compatible, translation ready, no ads, no tracking
Privacy
InStock First does not collect, store or send personal data, and it makes no external requests.
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
out of stock
product sorting
sold out
stock status
woocommerce
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested with WP 7.1
Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.5 · PHP 7.4
Update activity5 Nov 202617h ago
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