Title: Selecting random posts from an array
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Selecting random posts from an array

 *  [boogysi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boogysi/)
 * (@boogysi)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/selecting-random-posts-from-an-array/)
 * On my blog homepage I’m using a wp query to display 8 featured posts from an 
   array. Now I’m trying to write a script that would randomly pick 3 elements out
   of the first 5 elements of the array and assign them a custom css class (.feat_large)
   and a specific post thumbnail the_post_thumbnail( ‘homepage-thumb-large’ ). Remaining
   5 posts should use the the_post_thumbnail( ‘homepage-thumb-small’ ) and no specific
   css class.
 * I managed to achieve something similar in JS, but now I’d like to have a server-
   side php solution. My knowledge of php is very limited, so I’d appreciate some
   help on this issue.

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