Title: Retrieve Random Posts and Sort Alphabetically
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Retrieve Random Posts and Sort Alphabetically

 *  [MaryamZ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maryamz/)
 * (@maryamz)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieve-random-posts-and-sort-alphabetically/)
 * I’m trying to retrieve 20 posts at random AND sort them alphabetically using 
   get_posts(). However, I can’t figure out a way to do these two things at once
   since they are both controlled by the “orderby” parameter, so I can only do one
   or the other. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get around this?

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

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieve-random-posts-and-sort-alphabetically/)
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