How to control where the filter button appears

Hello again Leo,

To edit the orderby clause of the filters’ AJAX calls in the dedicated mode, try this:

if( wp_doing_ajax() && isset( $_REQUEST['awf_front'] ) && isset( $_REQUEST['awf_action'] ) && 'filter' === $_REQUEST['awf_action'] ) {

  if( isset( $_REQUEST['awf_ajax_extras']['orderby_seed'] ) ) {
    add_filter( 'woocommerce_shortcode_products_query', function( $args, $attrs, $type ) {
      $args['orderby'] = 'RAND('. intval($_REQUEST['awf_ajax_extras']['orderby_seed']) . ')';
      $args['order'] = '';
    
      return $args;
    }, 100, 3 );
  }

}

Of course, you will need to take care of the seed value appearing only when the random ordering is active and any possible other conditions, but this should work as a blueprint. You could also try the posts_orderby hook, but in this case your misha_rand_order_with_seed function would have to be changed quite a bit to become applicable to the AJAX case.

Good luck!

Leo,

I will mark this as a feature request, for us to look into the possibility of adding custom orderby options at some point in the future.

Meanwhile, I hope you will find the way to hook your custom code, please let us know here if you do!