The trick to make default Wordpress posts random posts? (Plugin for random WP posts)

soggyindo · 08-06-2008, 01:15 AM

Hi guys,
I had a search for this, and couldn't see anything. i hope someone can help, because it would be a great trick for a lot of us busy domainers!!

Basically, like most of us i have a few wordpress blogs - with original content - but don't have the time to update them every few days/week or month.
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So that it won't look "stale" when someone returns, I'd like to display a random post - each time someone refreshes or goes to my site.

Ok - so I found a plugin that creates a link to a random post . It's called "Random Redrect" by Matt Mullenweg. It allows you to create a link (to yourblog.example.com/?random) which will redirect someone to a random post on your blog, in a StumbleUpon-like fashion.

Ok, so well and good. You just have to make a link to yourblog.example.com/?random to do this manually

Where I get stuck is making Wordpress's home page automatically "print" this post (rather than the latest post, or page you specify) (in your Settings > Reading options.)

The code I think controls it is in home.php

and it's the third line perhaps? (This is near the top)

Quote:

<div id="content">

<div id="contentleft">
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<h1><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>

Any clues as to achieve this miracle? I'd be very grateful if someone could help me out!

hawkaw · 08-08-2008, 05:35 PM

You can pull random posts from WordPress using the regular code, but by adding the parameter &orderby=rand to the function get_posts();

Example

Code:

<?php
    $rand_posts = get_posts('numberposts=5&orderby=rand');
    foreach( $rand_posts as $post ) :
?>

<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>

 <?php endforeach; ?>

By using this code, no additional plugins are required

soggyindo · 08-10-2008, 08:49 PM

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hawkaw NamePros Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 154	You can pull random posts from WordPress using the regular code, but by adding the parameter &orderby=rand to the function get_posts(); Example Code: <?php $rand_posts = get_posts('numberposts=5&orderby=rand'); foreach( $rand_posts as $post ) : ?> <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li> <?php endforeach; ?> By using this code, no additional plugins are required

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