Better related products

Hi,

I understood that WooCommerce disabled the random-function for related items. For this reason our visitors get to see nearly always the same related items. That’s a prolbem.

Still trying now to make Woocommerce come up with better related products (not always the oldest products with a certain tag). For exemple: tried to make WC show the last modified products but that also doesn’t seem to work. Or am I doing something wrong? Placed this in functions.php:

function woocommerce_output_related_products() {

    $args = array(
      'posts_per_page'   => 4,
      'columns'       => 4,
      'orderby'       => 'modified'
    );

    woocommerce_related_products( apply_filters( 'woocommerce_output_related_products_args', $args ) );
  }

Any help would be appreciated. If it’s possible to make WC show the most recent related items that would be a improvement as well.

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