Title: Cannot Set Random Order in query_posts
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Cannot Set Random Order in query_posts

 *  Resolved anonymized-3854925
 * (@anonymized-3854925)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-set-random-order-in-query_posts/)
 * I’ve done this countless times in the past but can’t seem to get it to work on
   the site I’m building at the minute
 * `<?php query_posts('post_type=slider&orderby=rand&posts_per_page=1'); ?>`
 * It simply just loads the same post every time (there are 3 in total)
 * Can anyone see what I’m doing wrong? I do have Post Types Order plugin installed
   but I’ve disabled ‘auto sort’ and am still having the same problem

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 *  Thread Starter anonymized-3854925
 * (@anonymized-3854925)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-set-random-order-in-query_posts/#post-4982246)
 * Ignore this, I think it just loaded the same image many times in a row just by
   chance

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 * [order](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/order/)
 * [query_posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/query_posts/)

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