Title: Order by random variable
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Order by random variable

 *  [ashirogimuto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashirogimuto/)
 * (@ashirogimuto)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/order-by-random-variable/)
 * Hi, is there a way to order by a variable that is rand() ?
 * What I’m trying to do is keep the random value used in the query.
 * If you can give me an example along with the answers would be really helpfull.
 * Thanks.

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