Hi!
I've quite different issue but decided to post here since related thread has been closed without solution years ago.
So, I need to keep both available and sold out items turned ON, but I want to have available items listed first in their categories. Is it possible to do this in auto mode without setting sort order manually (in most cases I'm satisfied with default alphabetical sort order)? Or it is necessary to create new option somewhere in Admin part of code and modify sorting methods?
Thanks.