{"id":6187947,"date":"2015-06-01T23:40:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T23:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/display-wordpress-posts-widget-order-by-option\/"},"modified":"2016-08-30T13:59:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T13:59:51","slug":"display-wordpress-posts-widget-order-by-option","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/display-wordpress-posts-widget-order-by-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Display WordPress Posts Widget &#8211; Order By Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the Display WordPress Posts Widget only brings in the X <strong>most recent<\/strong> posts.<\/p>\n<p>Is there any way that I can tell it to:<br \/>\na) Randomly bring in posts?<br \/>\nb) Select which Categories it pulls from?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been experimenting with ShortCodesUltimate and it has those options, but it pulls from the internal website (not an external WordPress site like this widget).<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>John<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/jetpack\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-6187947","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-categories","topic-tag-display-wordpress-posts-widget"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/6187947","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\/6187947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6187947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}