Custom ordering of products in SHOP page

Yeah, this is very troubling—a bunch of my settings under the product tab for the archive page are were different?! Don’t understand that, i’ve reset all of those… but here is the issue still, no products showing up on front end, still seeing “Unfortunately, there are no products that match your criteria”.

When comparing the product archive settings to my stage site that still has a working /shop page—i see a major difference: Why isn’t the Data Source for content showing up on my live site?

Was hoping i could just copy the Element from my stage site, and paste into my live site—but it’s not cooperating. Really need some help and resolution here. Thank you in advance.

Hello—I thought I was back up and running after rolling the site back to a save point from yesterday. All my products show again, but seems I have a new strange issue.

In the product builder, it shows the correct button “select options”, but when looking at live site, that buttons shows “show details”? And the real issue, is when you click into a given product page, the buy now button is fully missing… so no way for a purchase to be made.

Can you please help me figure why i have this discrepancy? Thank you in advance. I’m turning on temp access again, but PLEASE, can you respond with direction on how to fix— i’m afraid of more issues, and do not want to roll site back again—as it created some customer service issues with orders that occurred in last 24 hours. Thanks you so much.

OK, final message for the evening – i’m sorry this string has become so long. In desperation after scrubbing all the settings everywhere i could think of—i’ve applied this patch to my functions.php file.

// Restore the "Add to cart" + Buy Now area for variable products if something removed it.
add_action( 'wp', function () {
    if ( ! is_product() ) return;

    // If the button area is missing, add it back late.
    if ( ! has_action( 'woocommerce_single_variation', 'woocommerce_single_variation_add_to_cart_button' ) ) {
        add_action( 'woocommerce_single_variation', 'woocommerce_single_variation_add_to_cart_button', 20 );
    }
}, 9999 );
// Emergency fallback: print the add-to-cart area even if the above didn't run.
add_action( 'woocommerce_after_variations_form', function () {
    if ( did_action( 'woocommerce_single_variation' ) && ! did_action( 'woocommerce_single_variation_add_to_cart_button' ) ) {
        wc_get_template( 'single-product/add-to-cart/variation-add-to-cart-button.php' ); // WC 8+/XStore ships this.
        // Older WC: wc_get_template( 'single-product/add-to-cart/variation-add-to-cart-button.php' );
    }
}, 5 );

However, i would still like assistance to troubleshoot why/where the issue really is, as I don’t feel great about the override, and continuing to add to my functions.php file. LMK what you think. Thanks.

Ohhhh! YES, this was it. Thank you so much as always~ i’ve now removed the functions.php override, disabled ‘catalog mode’, buttons appear everywhere they should, read correctly etc. Thank you again.

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