Here is a guide on how to create a WooCommerce featured products loop of featured images. The featured product option is chosen from the star column in the WordPress dashboard backend of the WooCommerce products, ‘featured‘ it is a term that belongs to the taxonomy named ‘product_visibility‘.
So in the above a shortcode is created; [woo_featured_products] ready to place anywhere on the site, the featured term is set in the taxonomy query and passed into the WP_Query arguments. The loop is output with just the featured image wrapped in the product page link.
This makes adding a featured Product Category unnecessary and makes is easier to change which products are output. You can cap the amount of products output by adjusting the post_per_page value.
