Title: Random Post Link Everywhere WordPress but Multisite
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Random Post Link Everywhere WordPress but Multisite

 *  [cogdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cogdog/)
 * (@cogdog)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-post-link-everywhere-wordpress-but-multisite/)
 * There are gobs of plugins to generate links to random posts, and I’ve coded my
   own PHP methods as well, but for beginners and especially on WordPress.com I 
   was pleased to discover/find that simply appending `?random` on any blog URL (
   self hosted or WordPress.com does exactly that, makes a link that magically pulls
   a random post from the site.
 * `http://cogdogblog.com/?random` works on my self hosted site as does `cogdoglab.
   wordpress.com/?random` for a WP.com one
 * However on multi-site WordPress sites I manage, this method merely returns the
   blog home page. This is not a major issue but it seems like inconsistent behavior(
   one might say it is random behavior??)

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-post-link-everywhere-wordpress-but-multisite/#post-5619281)
 * Hmm.
 * [http://ipstenu.org/?random](http://ipstenu.org/?random) works (main site)
 * [http://halfelf.org/?random](http://halfelf.org/?random) works (subsite)
 * What’s your wp-config’s multisite section look like?
 *  Thread Starter [cogdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cogdog/)
 * (@cogdog)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-post-link-everywhere-wordpress-but-multisite/#post-5619286)
 * Oh, I bet it’s because my multi-site is via directory, not sub-domain? So it 
   perhaps needs some htaccess magic?
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-post-link-everywhere-wordpress-but-multisite/#post-5619374)
 * Hmm! Lemme check…
 * Huh! Looks like it doesn’t work on subfolders. I’m not sure if that’s always 
   been the case or not.

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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
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 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-post-link-everywhere-wordpress-but-multisite/#post-5619374)
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