Display products from specific category in shop page

I know many people asked for this question but I didn’t find a proper way to do it. How to add a simple meta_query (product_cat) before the execution of the shop page’s query.

Maybe by using a filter ?

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Regards,

Adrien

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  1. The shop page is actually an archive page for posts of type ‘product’. Its template is in woocommerce/archive-product.php.

    You need to use the pre_get_posts action to preprocess the query before the loop, conditional_tags to recognize that you are in the product archive page, and a taxonomy query to filter the product categories, which belong to the taxonomy ‘product_cat’.

    For example, the following (placed in your theme’s functions.php or in a plugin) will display only products with product category ‘type-1’:

     add_action('pre_get_posts','shop_filter_cat');
    
     function shop_filter_cat($query) {
        if (!is_admin() && is_post_type_archive( 'product' ) && $query->is_main_query()) {
           $query->set('tax_query', array(
                        array ('taxonomy' => 'product_cat',
                                           'field' => 'slug',
                                            'terms' => 'type-1'
                                     )
                         )
           );   
        }
     }
    

    You can also exclude categories by using ‘operator’ => NOT IN, and ‘terms’ can be an array of product category slugs.

    A good introduction to query customization is http://www.billerickson.net/customize-the-wordpress-query/

  2. If you want to show products from a specific category on your shop page you can insert the below code in your themes function.php file.

    // Execute before the loop starte
    add_action( 'woocommerce_before_shop_loop', 'techlyse_before_action', 15 );
    function techlyse_before_action() {
        //To ensure Shop Page
        if ( is_shop() ) {
            $query_args['tax_query'] =  array(
                array( 
                    'taxonomy' => 'product_cat',   
                    'field' => 'id',  //If you want the category slug you pass slug instead of id and 1330 instead of category slug. 
                    'terms' => 1330 
                )
            );  
            //print_r($query_args);
            query_posts( $query_args );
        }
    } 
    
    // Execute after the loop ends
    add_action( 'woocommerce_after_shop_loop', 'techlyse_after_action', 15 );
    function techlyse_after_action() {
        //To ensure Shop Page
        if ( is_shop() ) {
            //Reset the Query after Loop
            wp_reset_query();
        }
    }