Phill Brown

Dynamic Sorting is a lightweight WooCommerce plugin that links up with your Google Analytics account and allows you to sort products based on a website’s usage statistics. Out the box, it adds two ordering options – sort by views and sort by visits.
Google Analytics sorting options can be hidden from the user facing sorting dropdown. This means you can set the default sorting order to feature your shop’s most popular products without your customer knowing.
There is also a premium version of the plugin called <a href="http://pbweb.co.uk/sort-by-ga-shop" rel="nofollow ugc">Sort by Google Analytics</a> that lets you sort any post type by any Google Analytics metric. WooCommerce Dynamic Sorting works with the product post type and supports sorting by pageviews and visits.
The Indexer
For performance reasons the plugin operates off a locally downloaded index of Google Analytics data. The indexer runs twice a day and you can trigger it manually through the Dynamic Sorting Settings section in the Catalog tab in WooCommerce Settings. Once the indexer has run at least once, the plugin is ready to use.
To increase the batch of the indexer to 400, add the following code to your plugin or theme:
<pre><code>add_filter( 'woocommerce_dynamic_sorting_indexer_data_batch_size', create_function( '', 'return 400;' ) ); </code></pre>
Requirements
<ul>
<li>WordPress 3.1+</li>
<li>WooCommerce 1.0+ plugin installed</li>
<li>PHP cURL extension</li>
<li>PHP JSON extension</li>
<li>Google Analytics Account</li>
</ul>

WooCommerce Dynamic Sorting

WooCommerce plugin that links up with Google Analytics to sort products based on page views and visits.

rjl20

Most people don’t need this plugin. Most wouldn’t notice a difference if they had it. All it does is change the default sort order of a WP_Query from posts.post_date to posts.post_date_gmt — that is, sort on the GMT timestamp of a post rather than the local time zone.
Who needs this? People who switch time zones frequently. People running a network installation of WordPress where they want to be able to aggregate posts from all their network blogs easily, and in the right order. I don’t know. I wrote it for FreeThoughtBlogs.com, so their “most recent posts” sidebar would stop showing only posts from a few blogs in early time zones. If it works for you, great.
I have every hope that this plugin will be made obsolete by the default sort order being changed in the WordPress core. I can think of no good reason why comments are sorted by GMT but posts by local time.
For all I know, this plugin works with older versions than 3.0. I’ve only tested it with 3.2.1.

Posts by GMT

Changes the default sort order for posts from post_date to post_date_gmt.

WooCommerce Dynamic Sorting vs Posts by GMT