Displaying Posts in random order

  • suddensway

    (@suddensway)


    13 years, 10 months ago

    hi there,

    I wish to display category posts in a random order for all category id’s except one which I’d like in the default order.

    I’d rather not use a plug in – not than I can find one that does this anyway. I’m sure there’s a bit of php coding I can add/edit that someone out there with a bigger brain than me knows about!

    If someone could help me with this I’d be a very happy bunny and most grateful…

    I’m using Minimal from Elegant Themes and the site is at http://www.allegroartslivemusic.co.uk/

    many thanks
    Kevin

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  • bioshox

    (@bioshox)

    13 years, 10 months ago

    Hi

    You could use

    <?php query_posts('category=whatever&showposts=5&offset=0&orderby=rand'); ?>

    and that should work.

    Thread Starter suddensway

    (@suddensway)

    13 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks for getting back to me bioshox but I’m not a developer at all and don’t really know how to implement this.

    I found a chunk of code in the blog page template that included the query_posts phrase but it was this:

    <?php $cat_query = '';
						if ( !empty($blog_cats) ) $cat_query = '&cat=' . implode(",", $blog_cats);
						else echo '<!-- blog category is not selected -->'; ?>
						<?php
							$et_paged = is_front_page() ? get_query_var( 'page' ) : get_query_var( 'paged' );
						?>
						<?php query_posts("showposts=$et_ptemplate_blog_perpage&paged=" . $et_paged . $cat_query); ?>
						<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

    Can you advise on how I could incorporate your suggestion into this at all?

    To confirm, I want the posts to display in random order for posts in all categories except one (and there are many!) so was looking to use the conditional tag such as !in_category( '14' )

    Does that make sense?

    many thanks again for your help
    Kevin

    bioshox

    (@bioshox)

    13 years, 10 months ago

    Hi Kevin,

    try the following

    <?php $cat_query = '';
						if ( !empty($blog_cats) ) $cat_query = '&cat=' . implode(",", $blog_cats);
						else echo '<!-- blog category is not selected -->'; ?>
						<?php
							$et_paged = is_front_page() ? get_query_var( 'page' ) : get_query_var( 'paged' );
						?>
						<?php query_posts("showposts=$et_ptemplate_blog_perpage&paged=" . $et_paged . $cat_query."&orderby=rand"; ?>
						<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    Thread Starter suddensway

    (@suddensway)

    13 years, 10 months ago

    Hi bioshox

    I’m afraid that didn’t work – posts are still being displayed by date rather than randomly.

    have you any other ideas on this at all?

    many thanks
    Kevin

    bioshox

    (@bioshox)

    13 years, 10 months ago

    Strange.

    You may need to change your loop, this thread may be of use:

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-random-order?replies=6

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