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1. mattmikulla
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   I want to create a featured box on my home page that displays the latest featured product.

   The catch is I want this image to use the single product image (large) and not a catalog image thumbnail.

   Having the excerpt and link to product page would be ideal as well.

   I asked at the support forum and all they told me was beyond the shortcodes available a custom solution is necessary.

   This is a pretty big functionality oversight in my opinion.

   Any ideas on how to achieve this?

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/woocommerce/

2. Mike
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Hi Matt,

   Its not really a functionality oversight because its easily done through a custom loop, if you know what your doing. You do it exactly the same way as you would with posts.

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query

   $my_query = new WP_Query( array(
   'post_status' => 'publish',
   'post_type' => 'product',
   'meta_key' => 'featured',
   'meta_value' => 'yes',
   'posts_per_page => 1
   ) );
   
   if ($my_query ->have_posts()) : while ($my_query ->have_posts()) : $my_query ->the_post();
   
   // Output your product here...
   
   endwhile;
   endif;

   Mike

3. mattmikulla
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Thanks.

   I asked on the support forum and didn't get any specifics.

   Could you please give me a functioning code example?

4. jameskoster
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   You'd probably get a much better response if you stopped claiming that your own personal requirements not being part of the core plugin are a 'big oversight'.

   Just my 2c :-P

5. lloydo3000
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   I don't really know what I'm doing so it's taken me a lot of fiddling to get it going. I finally have my featured products loop working, but only after I changed the 'meta_key' => '_featured' -- note the underscore there.

   This problem might exist in WooStore as well, but I thought I'd reply to this topic in public in case someone wonders why Mike's snippet isn't working. Consider it a 2c refund :-b

6. pyarasujal
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Hi Guys,
   Thanks for sharing your experience. Actually I want to display featured products with thumbnail. Can you please let me know the code for the thumbnainl?

   Thanks in advance.

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