I suspect the main problem is that you should be using the WP_Query
object rather than get_posts()
. The later by default only returns items with a post_type of post
not products,
So given a category with ID 26, the following code would return it’s products (WooCommerce 3+):
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'product',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'ignore_sticky_posts' => 1,
'posts_per_page' => '12',
'tax_query' => array(
array(
'taxonomy' => 'product_cat',
'field' => 'term_id', //This is optional, as it defaults to 'term_id'
'terms' => 26,
'operator' => 'IN' // Possible values are 'IN', 'NOT IN', 'AND'.
),
array(
'taxonomy' => 'product_visibility',
'field' => 'slug',
'terms' => 'exclude-from-catalog', // Possibly 'exclude-from-search' too
'operator' => 'NOT IN'
)
)
);
$products = new WP_Query($args);
var_dump($products);
In earlier versions of WooCommerce the visibility was stored as a meta field, so the code would be:
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'product',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'ignore_sticky_posts' => 1,
'posts_per_page' => '12',
'meta_query' => array(
array(
'key' => '_visibility',
'value' => array('catalog', 'visible'),
'compare' => 'IN'
)
),
'tax_query' => array(
array(
'taxonomy' => 'product_cat',
'field' => 'term_id', //This is optional, as it defaults to 'term_id'
'terms' => 26,
'operator' => 'IN' // Possible values are 'IN', 'NOT IN', 'AND'.
)
)
);
$products = new WP_Query($args);
var_dump($products);
Here we are only returning visible products, 12 per page.
Have a look through http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Taxonomy_Parameters for more details about how the category targeting works – it’s often more useful to retrieve it by slug than by ID!