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1. extomas
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi guys, using sideblog plugin and fetching some information from RSS to my sideblog category (www.etech.lt)

   I would like to randomize blog posts in one category (sideblog category) that on given time (or once per day) there were displayed another posts (in the same category as previous) by some criterions or other things.

   How can I do this, maybe there are some plugins?

   Sorry for my english, hope you understand.

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Not sure what your sideblog is doing, but this will display a random post from category 1:

   <?php
   //list a random post title from one category
   $cat = 1; //category ID
      $args=array(
      'category__in' => array($cat),
      'orderby' => 'rand',
      'showposts' => 1,
      'caller_get_posts' => 1
      );
   $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
   if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
   while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
   <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
   <?php
   endwhile;
   }
   wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
   ?>

3. extomas
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I am talking about this plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sideblog/

   This plugin get posts from various sources by RSS feed (fetching from them) in to one category (as normaly must be), but I need to randomize that category posts...

4. extomas
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   and one more thing: I need that there would be displayed not old posts at random order, but only newest or not older than.... [some date].

   Anyone can help me with that? Know that plugin?

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