Woocommerce - Display Featured Products at top of Category Page

Question

I want to have a section at the top of each product category page that shows three featured products at random from that category. Beneath this would be the regular archive

Answer 1

I made a note on displaying featured products by category and created a simple plugin with a shortcode. See full notes here https://jameshwartlopez.com/plugin/get-featured-products-of-a-category/.

Basically you just need to download and install the plugin I created https://github.com/jameshwartlopez/jvl-featured-product-by-category

Then in your functions.php file, you either hook to woocommerce_before_shop_loop or woocommerce_archive_description. Test which hook looks okay for your site. Below is an example.

slug
        echo do_shortcode( "[featured_products_by_category cat='".$cat_slug."']" );
    }

});