Featured Products not showing up in “Featured” area of homepage

The problem was a change in Woocommerce at the end of 2017 and this old theme. While I am answering my own post, I want to credit the creator of this blog that really helped

“I fixed it, and your suggestion helped me stumble into it. IN Dec Woocommerce changed a few things…I found a blog post that saved me.

here

“Note the query arguments meta_key and meta_value? They’re the cause of your problem. Those values are no longer valid.

The query arguments above should now be replaced with a new tax_query argument, which would look like the following:””