Display Woocommerce best-sellers by Current Category - php

Question

I would like to make a shortcode, that can be placed on category pages, for example on the sidebar.
It should display the category's best selling products.
The only solution that I find is if I specify the category, with slug or id, like below:
[best_selling_products category=”KITCHEN-ACCESSORIES” columns="1" per_page="5"]
How can I transform the shortcode to something like this?
[best_selling_products category=”CURRENT-CATEGORY” columns="1" per_page="5"]

Answer 1

Add this to your functions.php
function custom_best_selling_products( $attr = array() ){
$string = '[best_selling_products ';
$string .= ' category="' . get_query_var( 'term' ) . '" ';
if( $attr ){
foreach ( $attr as $key => $value ) {
$string .= ' ' . $key . '="' . $value . '" ';
}
}
$string .= ']';
return do_shortcode( $string );
}
add_shortcode( 'custom_best_selling_products', 'custom_best_selling_products' );
This will create a custom shortcode and you can use it like this: [custom_best_selling_products columns="1" per_page="5"]
This shortcode will automatically get the category

Answer 2

Add the follows code snippet in your active theme's functions.php to get best selling products from current $term or category page -
function modify_woocommerce_shortcode_products_query( $query_args, $attributes, $type ) {
if( $type != 'best_selling_products' ) return $query_args;
$term = get_queried_object();
if( $term ) {
if( !isset($query_args['category'] ) ){
$query_args['category'] = $term->slug;
}
}
return $query_args;
}
add_filter( 'woocommerce_shortcode_products_query', 'modify_woocommerce_shortcode_products_query', 99, 3 );
Add just use woocommerce default shortcode [best_selling_products columns="1" per_page="5"] to get the data.