Title: How to sort random posts by date?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# How to sort random posts by date?

 *  [MTV](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtv/)
 * (@mtv)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-sort-random-posts-by-date/)
 * Is it possible to display random posts within 30 and omit duplicate post?
 *     ```
       <ul><li><h2>Random Posts</h2>
           <ul>
        <?php
        $rand_posts = get_posts('numberposts=5&orderby=rand');
        foreach( $rand_posts as $post ) :
        ?>
           <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
        <?php endforeach; ?>
           </ul>
        </li></ul>
       ```
   
 * Thank

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 *  [shane-g](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shane-g/)
 * (@shane-g)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-sort-random-posts-by-date/#post-1262668)
 * Hi,
 * Check with these plugins:
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/random-featured-post-plugin/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/random-featured-post-plugin/)
   
   [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/random-posts-widget/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/random-posts-widget/)
 * Thanks,
 * Shane G.
 *  Thread Starter [MTV](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtv/)
 * (@mtv)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-sort-random-posts-by-date/#post-1262777)
 * Great plugins Shane but it doesn’t give me an option to sort the date.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [MTV](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtv/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-sort-random-posts-by-date/#post-1262777)
 * Status: not resolved

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