Title: [Plugin: Network Latest Posts] Randomize posts
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Network Latest Posts] Randomize posts

 *  Resolved [snapalot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snapalot/)
 * (@snapalot)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-network-latest-posts-randomize-posts/)
 * Hi!
 * The specification for my client’s site is to display 3 random posts (not older
   than 2 days) from six different blogs on the network in a widget. Every post 
   should display the post’s category name, thumbnail, post title and permalink.
 * How do I randomise the posts? Will the requirement above place a huge load on
   the server? (The site has more than 8000 visits per day.)
 * Great work with the plugin!
 * Thanks
    Kobus
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/network-latest-posts/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/network-latest-posts/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Jose Luis SAYAGO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iluminatus/)
 * (@iluminatus)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-network-latest-posts-randomize-posts/#post-3053578)
 * Hello Kobus,
 * Thanks for your comments. Well pull random posts wasn’t possible till version
   3.1.3 (recently pushed to the repository). I thought it was a good idea so I 
   added a new parameter called `random` which receives two values: `true` or `false`(
   false by default so you don’t need to specify it if you’re not going to use it).
 * It was somewhat easy to implement because the hook used to pass arguments to 
   the query accepts orderding parameters.
 * If you want to pull 3 random posts from six different blogs then you could use
   something like:
 * >  [nlposts number_posts=3 title_only=false blog_id=1,2,3,4,5,6 thumbnail=true
   > random=true]
 * Version 3.1.3 should be available in a minute or so, until then you can see an
   example of the new parameter running here: [Random Posts](http://testlab.8elite.com/random/)
 * Let me know if it works as expected.
 * Cheers.
 *  Thread Starter [snapalot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snapalot/)
 * (@snapalot)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-network-latest-posts-randomize-posts/#post-3053641)
 * Great, thank you Jose
 * I’ve upgraded and will test.
 * Keep well!
    Kobus

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-network-latest-posts-randomize-posts/#post-3053641)
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