Does the “Random” option under “Order By” not work for you?
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There’s also a checkbox for shuffling the order. That is, if you’re showing the 10 most recent posts, display those in a shuffled/randomized order. (Rather than getting a random selection from all posts.)
Thread Starter
Xenaco
(@xenaco)
Kailey,
Thanks for the responses. Perhaps I just don’t understand how the posts are selected. If I select 14 posts to be displayed from all categories I would like them to be randomly selected from all of the posts in that set and be displayed.
It is my understanding that now when I pick 14 posts to be displayed and select random under “Order by” that the first 14 posts that meet the criteria will be displayed in a random order and not picked randomly from the set of eligible posts.
I would like the selection of posts to be random and not just the display of the first 14 posts selected.
I would like to see an option of “Select By” Random.
I hope that I have made the distinction more clear.
Suppose you have 26 posts named for letters of the alphabet. A was posted first and Z posted last (the most recent).
If you choose to get 10 posts, with Order By: Random, you could end up with these posts:
H, R, S, O, Y, B, C, E, D, P
If you choose 10 posts, Order By: Date with the “shuffle” checkbox ticked, you could get this:
S, Y, Z, W, Q, U, X, V, R, T
Thread Starter
Xenaco
(@xenaco)
OK. I was under the impression that the selection of posts was sequential and the display was random.
You had already anticipated my needs perfectly.
You have created one of the most versatile plugins available for content in a widget display.
Thanks
