Making custom WooCommerce loop - wordpress

Question

I'm using already designed theme for wordpress, and now instead of regular blog posts I would like to display WooCommerce products (which are custom post types I persume).
This is the current query with display loop:
<?php
$args = array(
//'posts_per_page' => '2',
'paged' => get_query_var('paged')
);
$homepage_query = new WP_Query($args);
?>
<?php //query_posts('posts_per_page=4&paged='.get_query_var('paged')); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>
<?php while ( $homepage_query->have_posts() ) : $homepage_query->the_post(); ?>
<?php if($style == 'blog_style') { ?>
<div id="blog-style" class="post-box">
<?php get_template_part('content', 'blog'); ?>
</div>
<?php } else { ?>
<div class="post-box grid_4 <?php aero_post_box_class(); ?>">
<?php get_template_part('content', ''); ?>
</div>
<?php } ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
Is there a way to add options to $args so the loop displays WooCommerce products? I'm also using pagination with this loop, which is required on this project, so that's why it's important to use this loop.

Answer 1

You should be able to access products through the loop, setting the post_type arg to product:
<?php
// Setup your custom query
$args = array( 'post_type' => 'product', ... );
$loop = new WP_Query( $args );
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); ?>
<a href="<?php echo get_permalink( $loop->post->ID ) ?>">
<?php the_title(); ?>
</a>
<?php endwhile; wp_reset_query(); // Remember to reset ?>

Answer 2

This is the proper way to re-create and customize the WooCommerce product loop:
if(!function_exists('wc_get_products')) {
return;
}
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? absint(get_query_var('paged')) : 1; // if your custom loop is on a static front page then check for the query var 'page' instead of 'paged', see https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/#pagination-parameters
$ordering = WC()->query->get_catalog_ordering_args();
$ordering['orderby'] = array_shift(explode(' ', $ordering['orderby']));
$ordering['orderby'] = stristr($ordering['orderby'], 'price') ? 'meta_value_num' : $ordering['orderby'];
$products_per_page = apply_filters('loop_shop_per_page', wc_get_default_products_per_row() * wc_get_default_product_rows_per_page());
$products_ids = wc_get_products(array(
'status' => 'publish',
'limit' => $products_per_page,
'page' => $paged,
'paginate' => true,
'return' => 'ids',
'orderby' => $ordering['orderby'],
'order' => $ordering['order'],
));
wc_set_loop_prop('current_page', $paged);
wc_set_loop_prop('is_paginated', wc_string_to_bool(true));
wc_set_loop_prop('page_template', get_page_template_slug());
wc_set_loop_prop('per_page', $products_per_page);
wc_set_loop_prop('total', $products_ids->total);
wc_set_loop_prop('total_pages', $products_ids->max_num_pages);
if($products_ids) {
do_action('woocommerce_before_shop_loop');
woocommerce_product_loop_start();
foreach($products_ids->products as $featured_product) {
$post_object = get_post($featured_product);
setup_postdata($GLOBALS['post'] =& $post_object);
wc_get_template_part('content', 'product');
}
wp_reset_postdata();
woocommerce_product_loop_end();
do_action('woocommerce_after_shop_loop');
} else {
do_action('woocommerce_no_products_found');
}
Using the code above, you would customize the wc_get_products() arguments to get the IDs of the products you want (if you have specific criteria). Once that code is in place, all the features of a native WooCommerce loop will be available to you—pagination, ordering, etc. This method is superior to WP_Query and get_posts() because those two methods can break.
I've written a more detailed blog post about custom WooCommerce loops here: https://cfxdesign.com/create-a-custom-woocommerce-product-loop-the-right-way/

Answer 3

You can Also get Category using thi code
$terms = get_terms('product_cat');
foreach ($terms as $term) {
$term_link = get_term_link( $term, 'product_cat' );
echo '<li>' . $term->name . '</li>';
}
If You want only parent category then
wp_list_categories('taxonomy=product_cat&orderby=order&title_li=&depth=1');