Vitalii Rizo

This is a small plugin for WordPress which adds extra product sorting option: Featured First then Random. It can be very useful for stores with a large amount automatically imported items, e.g., from AliExpress.
It works perfectly with WooCommerce v. 2.3 and newer.
It is available in English and Russian for now.
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<li>This plugin uses Session seed (unique session id) to randomize item order so you can use random product list even with pagination!</li>
<li>It is automatically reset when user opens the first page or by timer (every hour/day. Timer starts when user opens your store).</li>
<li>Demo web-site is available <a href="http://toryjoy.ru/shop/?orderby=featured_first_then_random" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</li>
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Featured First then Random for WooCommerce

This is a small plugin for Wordpress which adds extra product sorting option: Featured First then Random. It can be very useful for stores with a larg …

tierrainnovation

Smart Category Ordering is a plugin that allows you to sort your post content (per category). You can apply your sorting to a single category, or have your settings follow a category tree, covering the parent and children categories.
When sorting by “Smart Title”, that option is there to the leading ‘a’, ‘an’ or ‘the’ from a post title when sorting. This is the only difference between “Smart Title” and “Title.”

Smart Category Ordering

Allows you to alphabetize categories by post title, by trimming leading text, by post date.

Featured First then Random for WooCommerce vs Smart Category Ordering