Display featured products through custom loop in woocommerce on template page

I would like to display 6 featured products from my woocommerce store on my home-page.php template. After some researched I found that the right way to do this was through a custom loop,( I do not wish to use shortcodes because I would like to add additional classes for styling etc. ) I also found that the key that woocommerce uses for the featured products is '_featured'. I put together the code below to display any products that I chose to be featured products in my store, but it doesn't work... Any help is appreciated.

<?php

    $args = array(
        'post_type'   => 'product',
        'stock'       => 1,
        'showposts'   => 6,
        'orderby'     => 'date',
        'order'       => 'DESC' ,
        'meta_query'  => array(
            array(
                'key'     => '_featured',
                'value'   => 0,
                'compare' => '>',
                'type'    => 'numeric'
            )
        )
    );

    $loop = new WP_Query( $args );
    while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); global $product; ?>

        <li>    
            <?php 
                if ( has_post_thumbnail( $loop->post->ID ) ) 
                    echo get_the_post_thumbnail( $loop->post->ID, 'shop_catalog' ); 
                else 
                    echo '<img src="' . woocommerce_placeholder_img_src() . '" alt="Placeholder" width="65px" height="115px" />'; 
            ?>
            <h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>

            <?php 
                echo $product->get_price_html(); 
                woocommerce_template_loop_add_to_cart( $loop->post, $product );
            ?>    
        </li>

<?php 
    endwhile;
    wp_reset_query(); 
?>
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Kaelyn Kuvalis

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  • Mr. Meda Bartoletti

    Change your args to be like this:

    $meta_query   = WC()->query->get_meta_query();
$meta_query[] = array(
    'key'   => '_featured',
    'value' => 'yes'
);
$args = array(
    'post_type'   =>  'product',
    'stock'       =>  1,
    'showposts'   =>  6,
    'orderby'     =>  'date',
    'order'       =>  'DESC',
    'meta_query'  =>  $meta_query
);

    If you go to wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/includes/class-wc-shortcodes.php (@595) you can find how it's done for WC shortcodes.

  •
    Monserrat Hickle

    This has changed in WooCommerce 3.0. It's not simply a meta_query, but now includes a tax_query. The arguments are now:

        $meta_query  = WC()->query->get_meta_query();
    $tax_query   = WC()->query->get_tax_query();
    $tax_query[] = array(
        'taxonomy' => 'product_visibility',
        'field'    => 'name',
        'terms'    => 'featured',
        'operator' => 'IN',
    );

    $args = array(
        'post_type'           => 'product',
        'post_status'         => 'publish',
        'ignore_sticky_posts' => 1,
        'posts_per_page'      => $atts['per_page'],
        'orderby'             => $atts['orderby'],
        'order'               => $atts['order'],
        'meta_query'          => $meta_query,
        'tax_query'           => $tax_query,
    );

    See woocommerce/includes/class-wc-shortcodes.php

  •
    German Konopelski Sr.

    Featured Products Loop in WooCommerce 3

    <ul class="products">
<?php
$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'product',
    'posts_per_page' => 12,
    'tax_query' => array(
            array(
                'taxonomy' => 'product_visibility',
                'field'    => 'name',
                'terms'    => 'featured',
            ),
        ),
    );
$loop = new WP_Query( $args );
if ( $loop->have_posts() ) {
    while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
        wc_get_template_part( 'content', 'product' );
    endwhile;
} else {
    echo __( 'No products found' );
}
wp_reset_postdata();
?>
  • Jakob Cole

    According to the WooCommerce Wiki:

    Building custom WP_Queries or database queries [to retrieve products] is likely to break your code in future versions of WooCommerce as data moves towards custom tables for better performance.

    WooCommerce advocates using wc_get_products() or WC_Product_Query() instead of WP_Query() or get_posts().

    I've written a post with the code I used to achieve what you want here: https://cfxdesign.com/create-a-custom-woocommerce-product-loop-the-right-way/

  •
    Darby Rempel Sr.

    I know this is quite old, but I've just shared an alternative solution here and I think it can help those reaching this topic too.

    Instead of using meta_query or tax_query, you can use wc_get_featured_product_ids() too:

    $args = array(
    'post_type'           => 'product',
    'posts_per_page'      => 6,
    'orderby'             => 'date',
    'order'               => 'DESC',
    'post__in'            => wc_get_featured_product_ids(),
);

$query = new WP_Query( $args );

    I hope it helps!

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