Change default sorting for specific Woocommerce product category archive pages

Question

I need to change the default product sorting option to \"Newness\" for a specific product category on my site. I know you can go to WooCommerce > Settings > Product > Displa

Answer 1

Here better and WORKING solution

add_filter('woocommerce_get_catalog_ordering_args', 'woocommerce_catalog_orderby');
function woocommerce_catalog_orderby( $args ) {
    if( is_product_category( 'shirts' ) ) {  // <- define category slug- returns true or false
        $args['orderby']  = 'meta_value_num';
        $args['order']    = 'ASC'; // <- order ASC or DESC
        $args['meta_key'] = '_price'; // <- _price is meta_value_num's key - required
    }
    return $args;
}

Please also read about WP_Query order & orderby here: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/#order-orderby-parameters