{"id":3258809,"date":"2012-12-11T12:08:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T12:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/random-authors\/"},"modified":"2016-08-20T18:46:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T18:46:11","slug":"random-authors","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/random-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Random authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would it be possible to modify the widget, so that it displays random authors? For example I don&#8217;t want to display all my blog authors, only 2 or 3, but I want them to be randomly chosen so that I don&#8217;t end up with the same 3 authors on every page! I&#8217;m good with php, so I should be able to code it myself, but I&#8217;d appreciate any pointers.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/display-authors-widget\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-3258809","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/3258809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/3258809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3258809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}