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1. Cornflower Design
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Within built-in WordPress functions, such as get_posts() and get_users(), it would be very useful to have an additional value for the order parameter to allow results to be returned in a random order. For example:

   <?php get_users('role=author&number=3&order=RAND); ?>

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 8 months ago #

   there is some instruction in the codex for get_posts()
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts#Random_posts

   not sure with get_users() - for instance, have you tried to use 'orderby=rand'?

   (if it is not directly mentioned in the codex, does not mean it would not work)

3. Cornflower Design
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Thanks. I hadn't spotted that the rand value was available for the orderby parameter within get_posts().

   Looking through wp-includes/user.php it's deffinetely not an option for get_users().

4. Cornflower Design
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   rand doesn't appear to be a valid value within get_pages() either. It would be helpful if the standard set of properties were consistant throughout these functions.

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