Title: custom query order random
Last modified: February 14, 2017

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# custom query order random

 *  [greencode](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greencode/)
 * (@greencode)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-query-order-random/)
 * I have the following query but would like to add “orderby random” to it. However
   it doesn’t work when you do this. Any ideas or help would be much appreciated.
 * <?php
    $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘product’, ‘product_cat’ => ‘extras’, ‘product_tag’
   => ‘featured-shop’, ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, ); $loop = new WP_Query( $args );
   while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); ?>

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 *  [Peter Lawrenson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorro/)
 * (@lorro)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-query-order-random/#post-8804102)
 * I think it should be `'orderby'=>'rand'`
 *  Thread Starter [greencode](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greencode/)
 * (@greencode)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-query-order-random/#post-8804111)
 * Unfortunately not that straight forward. On a regular post/page query that would
   be the case but with WooCommerce product query it doesn’t work.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-query-order-random/#post-8804111)
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