{"id":9086863,"date":"2017-05-01T22:23:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T22:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/five-random-posts-widget-without-overlap-with-popular-posts-widget\/"},"modified":"2017-05-01T22:23:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T22:23:11","slug":"five-random-posts-widget-without-overlap-with-popular-posts-widget","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/five-random-posts-widget-without-overlap-with-popular-posts-widget\/","title":{"rendered":"Five random posts widget&#8230; without overlap with popular posts widget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I am currently using WP Popular Posts very happily on my site:  www.practicalnetworking.net.  <\/p>\n<p>The widget I have on the sidebar and footer displays the top 5 most popular posts per week. This is working exactly as I wanted it to.<\/p>\n<p>However, the effect I get is the popular posts get more attention, and prevent the unpopular posts from ever getting it to the top 5.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to set up another widget that displays 5 random articles&#8230; BUT, I would like for the random article to NOT list articles that already exist on the &#8220;top 5&#8221; widgets.<\/p>\n<p>Is something like this possible?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-9086863","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/9086863","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\/9086863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9086863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}