Display only 1 random post from the most recent 20

  • Resolved f1ss1on

    (@f1ss1on)


    10 years, 7 months ago

    Hello, I am trying to display only 1 random post from the most recent 20 posts. Currently, this is the code I have. The issue is, only the latest post is displaying since showposts =>1.

    $post_id = get_the_ID();
    $args = array(
      'orderby' => 'post_date',
      'orderby' => 'rand',
      'showposts'=>1,
      'post__not_in' => array($post_id),
      'meta_query' => array(array('key' => '_thumbnail_id'))
    );

    $rand_query = new WP_Query($args);

    while ($rand_query->have_posts()) : $rand_query->the_post();
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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    I’m not sure what the problem is. You said that you only want 1 random post, yes. Isn’t that what you are getting?

    Thread Starter f1ss1on

    (@f1ss1on)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    Yes it is, but it is only getting the most recent post. I need it to randomly display from the most recent 20 posts

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    You cannot have two orderby parameters like that. Try:

    $post_id = get_the_ID();
    $args = array(
      'orderby' => 'post_date rand',
      'showposts'=>1,
      'post__not_in' => array($post_id),
      'meta_query' => array(array('key' => '_thumbnail_id'))
    );

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters

    Thread Starter f1ss1on

    (@f1ss1on)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    It is functioning the same as I had it before now by displaying random posts from all posts, not the most recent 20. So now we just need it to grab posts from only the most recent 20. 😀

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    So you want only 1 of the recent 20 posts displayed, yes? If so, you’ll need to amend the query to pull all 20 recent posts.

    $post_id = get_the_ID();
    $args = array(
      'orderby' => 'post_date rand',
      'posts_per_page'=> 20,
      'post__not_in' => array($post_id),
      'meta_query' => array(array('key' => '_thumbnail_id'))
    );

    Then grab a random post from the returned query object.

    Thread Starter f1ss1on

    (@f1ss1on)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    No, thats not working either. Now what it is doing is displaying all 20 posts. I only need 1 post to randomly display out of the 20 most recent posts.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    Then grab a random post from the returned query object.

    Thread Starter f1ss1on

    (@f1ss1on)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    I figured it out. I wrote a separate function calling the most recent posts using wp_get_recent_posts then just queried it out into randomly displaying 1. Thanks for your help.

    lukemv

    (@lukemv)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    Care to share the code?

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