Comments on: Random Post Order in WordPress

By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:21:53 +0000

Hi, thanks for the post. I’m looking at a way of randomising the posts to my site as it’ll give some airing to the older posts. Thanks for the coding, but I’m not sure where to put it.

Can anyone help?

Cheers,

Danny

By: Fox

Fox — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:05:52 +0000

Is there a way to then sort the randomly-displayed posts? For example, I have a query running that pulls posts from a category and displays 2 of them randomly, similar to your code above. But within that query, I want the random posts to display in descending order. So that no matter which 2 posts are displayed, the newest is always first. Right now, it’s pulling the posts from the specified category and displaying them randomly (good) but sometimes the newer one is on bottom (bad). Thanks for your help.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 14:22:03 +0000

Here is the easiest way to sort any post type Post Types Order

By: Breno

Breno — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 18:26:17 +0000

Nice article man. As PPC Ad, exactly what I was looking for. However, guess I´m rookier than he(she?) and don´t know where to place this code.

The site is trocasvale.co.cc , Im using the Fullscreen theme and I want those posts randomized. They´re organized by date and that has to change.

Pretty sure that has something to do with this section of home.php:

div class=”home-thumbs”>
?php $home_query = new WP_Query(“cat=&showposts=8″); $i = 0; ?>
ul class=”thumbs”>
?php while ($home_query->have_posts()) : $home_query->the_post();
$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; $i++; ?>

but I´m still learning.. can you help me, please?

regards

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PPC Ad — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 07:21:39 +0000

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By: John Gillespie

John Gillespie — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:15:27 +0000

I hear ya Jonathan…

Then again, while it may not stop factories being moved to China and websites outsourced to India, I strongly believe that, a little like karma, you get what you pay for in this world. Cut too many corners, and something will eventually fall off the back of your jQuery rounded div. Intangible though they sometimes may be, qualities like reliability, dependability, originality and creativity all come with an appropriate price.
.-= John Gillespie´s last post: Random Post Order in WordPress =-.

By: Jonathan Nicol

Jonathan Nicol — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:48:24 +0000

computerisation [...] has decreased respect for the creative process, and the amount of time that good, original work actually takes.

The sad thing is that web designers are (in part) responsible for fostering this notion. There seems to be an inexhaustible supply of young web designers and developers happy to bang out a website for a few bucks, which does nothing to educate their clients about the value of considered, relevant, and well executed design solutions. Instead, web designers become simply suppliers of a service, the process of commissioning a website reduced to a financial transaction, like having some photocopying done. .-= Jonathan Nicol´s last post: Subversion for web development: Part 3 =-.

By: John Gillespie

John Gillespie — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:25:30 +0000

While slightly tangential to the topic of web development, but talking of ye olde 20th Century all the same, I used to have a colleague who back in older days had been a founding partner of a well known New Zealand design company, and he bemoaned how computerisation—while admittedly increasing efficiency to some degree, and providing me with a 9–5 living—has decreased respect for the creative process, and the amount of time that good, original work actually takes.

Increasingly, there is a trend that sees people, able to be self-declared Google and Wikipedia “experts”, blind to the value of things that take more than a web browser or copy and paste to be brought into existence…
.-= John Gillespie´s last post: Random Post Order in WordPress =-.

By: Jonathan Nicol

Jonathan Nicol — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:29:04 +0000

…this won’t cost me anything extra will it? I mean, after all, you can just Ctrl-Click your fingers and make it happen?

This rings so very, very true. I remember the days when clients were grateful just to have a website. Now they expect all the functionality of Facebook, Gmail and Flickr rolled into one. And they want it yesterday. It's almost enough to make me nostalgic for the the 20th Century! .-= Jonathan Nicol´s last post: Subversion for web development: Part 3 =-.