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

Assuming you're working within a custom page template, this should be relatively easy. Not entirely sure if your approach will work with utilizing is_page() to force the sorting of the product to change, however... You can utilize the global WP_Query to create a custom query, sorting your products however you'd like. Here's an example:

 'product',
        'posts_per_page' => -1, //or... set your post per page and utilize pagination if required.
        'orderby'        => 'title',
        'order'          => 'ASC',
    );

    $loop = new WP_Query( $args );

    while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
        global $product;

        //this is where you can output your products
        //which will be ordered according to the set arguments above.

    endwhile;

    wp_reset_query();
?>

EDIT:

If you're looking for this kind of functionality for a specific category, I would simply create a new page in your system and use the WooCommerce product short-code. You don't need to add anything in your functions.php or hook onto anything this way. The following short-code is an example you can use to...for example order your products on a specific category page by title.

[products category="yourcategory" orderby="title" ]