How to show random posts in the front page | WordPress.org

Resolved Daves
(@biogestalt)

8 years, 4 months ago

Hi all!
First experience with Customizr and I haven’t been coding in a while, so I’m kinda stuck with this (I think probably not too hard) thing.
I’m developing a site, at the moment just on my pc with XAMPP, and I have 9 posts arranged as a 3×3 grid shown on the front page (showing the featured image): I’d like to have those 9 posts, which at the moment are chronologically ordered, in a random order.
Can anybody help me with that?
Many thanks in advance

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rdellconsulting
(@rdellconsulting)

8 years, 4 months ago

I’ve flagged as a potential enhancement.
Menaka S.
(@menakas)

8 years, 4 months ago
Hi Daves,
Try using this snippet to alter the query.
http://presscustomizr.com/snippet/three-techniques-to-alter-the-query-in-wordpress/

Or try adding this bit of code can be added to your child theme’s functions.php
```
add_action('pre_get_posts','alter_query');

function alter_query($query){

    if ($query->is_main_query() &&  is_home() )
        $query->set('orderby', 'rand');
}
```
Thread Starter Daves
(@biogestalt)

8 years, 4 months ago

Hi Menaka,
I tried the second way, adding that bit of code to functions.php, and it worked very well indeed.
Thank you very much for that

Menaka S.
(@menakas)

8 years, 4 months ago

Glad that it worked.
Can you mark this topic as resolved?

Thread Starter Daves
(@biogestalt)

8 years, 4 months ago

Sure, I didn’t noticed I could mark it as resolved myself 😀

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