In this case, product ordering, you have to open “catalog.xml” in the layout folder. Then in the following code block, you just add the red line in order to change the default sorting direction to descending.
After that upload this file to your server. However, don’t forget to clear Magento’s cache unless you will see the result.
Brilliant – just what I’ve been looking for – much nicer to edit xml code rather than the core files!
Great trick ! Thx for the tip !!!
thank you.work great on my site with version 1.7.02.But the catalog.xml is located in Base folder.it is better to copy it to the sub-theme’s folder that which your website are using.
@Ribbons Great to here that it still works with 1.7, also thank you for the suggestion, I absolutely agree with you.
Great! This also worked on Magento 1.7.0.2 🙂 Thanks !!!
Is there a way to just want to change the default value (0) of the “product listing sort by” Best Value, to a higher value?