Title: random by category
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# random by category

 *  [Pete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/perthmetro/)
 * (@perthmetro)
 * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-by-category/)
 * This displays two posts – good!
    This displays posts from category 17 – good!
   This does not show random posts,only the first two – Bad!
 * `<?php $rand_posts = get_posts('numberposts=2&category=17&orderby=rand'); foreach(
   $rand_posts as $post ) : ?>`

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

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Pete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/perthmetro/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-by-category/)
 * Status: not resolved

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