Thread Starter
Lolley
(@lolley)
There isn’t much response in this forum.
Fortunately, I was able to work out the solution by going elsewhere.
Add this to the functions file to randomise posts:
//Randomise posts on front page
add_action('pre_get_posts', 'my_pre_get_posts');
function my_pre_get_posts($query) {
if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
$query->set('orderby', 'rand');
}
Hi Lolley,
Thanks fot your post, was thinking about to do the same but unfortunately I can’t get it working.
I’m fairly new to wp but is it important where to put it in the functions.php?
This is my site: http://www.urbx.nl and the frontpage are the recent posts…
Well finally after many attempts is works.
Thanks again Lolley…
Hi,
I would like to the same as Lolley and I paste the code anywhere in the functions.php but that broke everything so I had to go back… Sorry I am completly new with this so could you please let me know exactly where to paste it or what to do ?
Many thanks in advance
I just was searching for the backticks in OSX and see Lolley answered allready 🙂
Thread Starter
Lolley
(@lolley)
I simply added it to the bottom of functions.php, just before the closing tag, like this:
//Randomise posts on front page
add_action('pre_get_posts', 'my_pre_get_posts');
function my_pre_get_posts($query) {
if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
$query->set('orderby', 'rand');
}
}
?>
If you are using a child theme (the better way tbh) then create a new functions.php in the child’s directory and add the code between php tags.
Now there is one thing I should point out! Since this calls random posts you can get repetition of posts between pages of posts. When I move to the next page of posts I can see one or two that were on the first page! It doesn’t matter that much, but just so you are aware!
