I haven’t been able to reproduce this issue. Did you install a caching plugin or similar?
I’m using a widget on my development box selecting “Random” on the “Order by” field, and the order of the posts is random. I also checked with a shortcode and it’s still working as expected.
What other parameters are you using?
Hi,
There is no any caching plugin/
It’s the same problem in some sites.
The old version of your plug make random posts but the new don’t.
Here is my code in the pages(I didn’t check in sidebar):
[catlist name=”your-category-goes-here” excerpt=yes excerpt_size=10 excerpt_strip=no thumbnail=yes thumbnail_size=200,200 thumbnail_class=”alignleft” title_class=lcp_title numberposts=3 orderby=”rand“]
I see here the same problem:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/list-category-plugin-fails-randomly?replies=5
The other topic has a different problem, not with order by random.
I found this might work by adding this:
remove_all_filters('posts_orderby');
Since I can’t reproduce the issue, could you please edit the plugin on your WordPress instalation and see if this fixes it? Edit include/CatList.php and on line 153 add the code I wrote, so it would look like this:
remove_all_filters('posts_orderby');
$query = new WP_Query;
