Featured Items not being displayed on Woocommerce Shop Page

[LauraCrisci]

Hi,

I’m trying to get my woocommerce shop page ( https://lauracrisci.com/shop/ ) to show Featured Items. I’ve selected them and they have the little star saying that they are selected, but on the site, they are not showing up. Is there a shortcode or something I have to do as well? I would like them to appear under the categories on the shop page.

Also, I would like to have more options in the sorting dropdown on the page, but I can live without that for now.

So, am I missing something? It seems like after the star for featured items has been selected, they should just show up.

Thanks so much for your help,

Laura.

[lely]

Hi Laura,

Yes, to display it, you can either used a shortcode or add it as widgets on Appearance > Widgets. For more information, you may check this article.

For more sorting options, it might be possible with customization though it is outside the scope of our support. For more guidance you may check this article.

Hope this helps.

[LauraCrisci]

Hi Lely,

Thanks for the quick reply. I found the short code with the link that you provided… [featured_products per_page=”8″ columns=”4″ orderby=”date” order=”desc”] So where do I put something like that shortcode on my X-theme? And how do I get it positioned on the page? I’d like it to be either above or below the categories.

Thanks again for the fast reply!

Laura.

[Prasant]

Hello Laura,

Thanks for updating the thread.

Changes you are looking to make by adding shortcode in WooCommerce category page will require some custom development work and changes in category template. Providing support for the same falls outside the scope of support we can offer. However, you can take a look at following resources to get started.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-custom-template-for-category-pages-in-woocommerce/

You can also test solution shared in following tutorial using a plugin.

How to Easily Create Custom Category Pages in WordPress

Thanks.

[LauraCrisci]

Thanks for the additional category info. I will check that out. But first I just need to know where exactly to put the shortcode for the featured products to show up.

Thanks!

Laura.

[friech]

Hi Laura,

You can paste the shortcode on your shop page. But more likely this won’t achieve what you wanted to do. Since you want a customized shop page, I suggest that you create a pseudo shop page, this is just a standard page you can edit in Cornerstone and add your product and categories using the available Woocommerce Shortcodes.

You can also use the Essential Grid extension to place interactive product grids on your pseudo shop page. This Grid has also a sorting feature. Please see the following tutorials for more details about the Essential Grid.

Essential Grid Basics Part 1: Grid Source
Essential Grid Basics Part 2: Layout Options

Hope it helps,
Cheers!