Thank you!
Disable infinity scroll plugin because even after disabling more than 75% of the plugins the images don’t load after the default initial product setting. When I change the default from 27 to 100 all the images load well so I’m thinking the plugin is buggy and I have the latest version of this plugin.
#2 is fixed and thank you again for the instructions, changed from 20 to 1000 and was able to move many products that were out of order. I agree the functionality is from Woocommerce and I wish they had given more options and control for sorting than what they have provided currently.