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 …

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This plugin was built to add a “Random” Product Sorting Order to WooCommerce with working pagination.
Other solutions I found that added a “Random” Product Sorting Order did not preserve pagination.
This plugin will sort your WooCommerce Products in random order. A random sort has a transient life of one hour. (In version 0.9.1, the duration is not a settable option. It is fixed at one hour.) Every hour a new random sort is generated. Pagination works as expected, meaning each WooCommerce Product will be diplayed once and no more than once.
This plugin requires the WooCommerce plugin.

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