Change number of products displayed per page

One of the common inqury in our support tickets, unrelated to plugin functionality, was how to change number of products displayed on WooCommerce product archive page.

Most themes come with settings page where you can change number of producs displayed, in fact you can change number of rows and columns per page but there are also themes without that option.

So to do that you need to add code to your child theme’s functions.php file. Avoid adding custom code directly to your parent theme’s functions.php file as this will be wiped entirely when you update the theme.

This solution requires you to have your shop page display (WooCommerce > Product catalog set to “Show products”). Code snippet is below (snippet is from woocommerce.com):

/**
 * Change number of products that are displayed per page (shop page)
 */
add_filter( 'loop_shop_per_page', 'new_loop_shop_per_page', 20 );

function new_loop_shop_per_page( $cols ) {
  // $cols contains the current number of products per page based on the value stored on Options –> Reading
  // Return the number of products you wanna show per page.
  $cols = 9;
  return $cols;
}