Random post or page on homepage

  • sieborg007

    (@sieborg007)


    3 years ago

    Hi 🙂

    I would like to display a random page or post on my homepage. The post should be shown entirely, in full page. Each time you refresh the page (in this case http://www.slammingdoors.space) it should show another post from a canvas of about 100 posts).
    Each post has different content, it can be an image, a video, only sound etc.).

    I searched a way to do this with plugins, but every tentative was a miss 🙁

    So I created a new page called “random” where the idea is to put some code to display a random post (or page if it’s easier).

    Would there be a simple way to do that? If it’s not simple, it’s ok too 😀

    I already created 2 posts as an example so I could try what you suggest immediately.

    Note that the url of the homepage shouldn’t change! Only the content. So it should stay http://www.slammingdoors.space.

    Also I use elementor so I could easily add code with a code widget on the page.

    Thanks for your precious help !

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  • tugbucket

    (@tugbucket)

    3 years ago

        <?php
    $args = array(
        'post_type'      => 'post',
        'orderby'        => 'rand',
        'posts_per_page' => '1',
    );
    $my_query = new WP_Query( $args );
    if ( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
        while ( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
            $my_query->the_post();

            /* do your post output here */

        } // end while
    } // end if

    ?>

    something like that should work.

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