woocommerce – most recent products on home page

I have been investing a lot of time looking for which cart is the right one for my project. I ended up trying woocommerce because I liked the dashboard integration they did.

Im having one detail I am trying to resolve. By default, the home page displays in ABC order. You cannot override this in the configuration settings. The only option you have is to use the combo box at the bottom of the page, it refreshes the page and shows the sorting I want. However, there is no way to make this the default behavior on the front page.

Tried their support forum, after several days of going back and forth has brought in a little more info, but no solution. I found a shortcode that works, but it doesn’t display the records with pagination – [recent_products per_page=”12″ columns=”4″]

I went looking further into their docs and found a little to start with, so I am going to go through it in more detail now.
https://www.woothemes.com/woocommerce-codex/theming-woocommerce/

All I want is the most recent products on the front page, with pagination. Anyone else figured out how to do this?