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1. miniCarl
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Ok, a question about the loop.

   I have my category "news", with 10 posts.
   I want the loop to find the latest 3, and display only 1 of them (at random)

   I guess i could do something like this...

   $query = WP_Query('category_name=news&orderby=date&posts_per_page=3');
   $rand = rand(1, 3);
   $count = 1;
   while($query->have_posts()):
   	if($rand != $count){
   		$count++;
   		continue;
   	}
   	// Display post here
   endwhile;

   ...but its not pretty.

   Any sugestions, can i do this just with the right loop arguments?

2. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Bump removed.

   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-random-posts-custom-fields?replies=10 may have some advice.

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