WooCommerce: Show Latest Products by SKU Numbers

WooCommerce is a fantastic e-commerce platform for WordPress. It is well created to handle a few or a lot of products and it comes with a lot of features standard. For a recent project, however, I needed to display recent products and sort by SKU numbers. After a bit of looking around, I came up with a pretty solution: use WordPress WP_Query.

WP_Query is a WordPress class that deals with retrieving posts. You can set a number of parameters that filter what you want and what you don’t. In my case, I was looking for a way to sort items, and in particular, sort by meta key (_sku). So below, you’ll see the code that you can use however you want.

    $args = array(
            'post_type' => 'product',
            'post_status' => 'publish',
            'ignore_sticky_posts' => 1,
            'posts_per_page' => 12,
            'orderby' => 'meta_value',
            'meta_key' => '_sku',
            'order' => 'ASC'
        );
    $products = new WP_Query($args);

This code is by no means complete in itself, but will get you started. I hope this helps you in your project. If you have any questions or suggestions, please share them in the comments section.