Display featured products through custom loop in woocommerce on template page

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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(); 
?>

10

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.

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