As you probably know, within WooCommerce you can set the Shop page, while on that page, you can also set what you want to show there. You could show either categories, products or both. Now, the thing is that sorting options work only for products. But if you choose to display Product categories, they will order based on the date they were published.
If you want to rearrange the order of product categories, you don’t have to dig through all the hooks within WooCommerce ecosystem (like I did), or try several plugins (like I did), or even think about creating your own plugin (guess what – like I did). All you have to do is open product categories page and hover over any of the categories. You will see that your icon will change, which means that you will be able to rearrange categories only with your mouse… I had no idea that this option exists!
You’ll thank me another time…