To select products to appear in Staff Recommendations do the following:
1. In BigCommerce find the products that you want to be featured as Staff Recommendations and Star them
2. Go to View Products > Search
2. In Search by Setting select Featured Product > Only Featured Products
3. For each product starred right click and open in a new tab
2. Go to Edit Product / Other Details
3. Under Other Details / Sort Order enter -1
This will then make the product a featured product. To change it back to a non featured product enter the sort order as 0.