Title: [Plugin: Random Text] Randomtext not working
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Random Text] Randomtext not working

 *  [Bodhipaksa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haecceity/)
 * (@haecceity)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-random-text-randomtext-not-working/)
 * I’m always seeing the first piece of random text first when I visit my site (
   [http://www.wildmind.org](http://www.wildmind.org) – it’s the news block in the
   left sidebar). If I refresh the page in Chrome it cycles through the three items
   we have in the plugin, which isn’t much use. In Safari I see the same one over
   and over, which is even less useful. A colleague never sees anything but one 
   of the first two pieces of text.

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 *  Thread Starter [Bodhipaksa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haecceity/)
 * (@haecceity)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-random-text-randomtext-not-working/#post-1859475)
 * It seems if Im not logged in as admin I see the same message over and over.
 *  [thoffner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thoffner/)
 * (@thoffner)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-random-text-randomtext-not-working/#post-1859853)
 * Has there been a fix for this yet? My site only shows the first quote and then
   when it is supposed to change it goes blank. I have over 50 quotes loaded so 
   I’m sure that there is one to replace the first but nothing. Widgets works the
   same way. Only shows the first then nothing.
 *  [Johan van der Wijk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vanderwijk/)
 * (@vanderwijk)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-random-text-randomtext-not-working/#post-1859863)
 * I have the same issue and found out this is caused by the W3 Total Cache plugin
   I have installed on my website.
 * If you have a caching plugin installed, it will create a static version of all
   of your pages and therefore the random text is not updated. This also explains
   why the plugin is working fine when you are logged in (cache is disabled for 
   logged in users).
 * Unfortunately I have not yet found a workaround for this…

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 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Johan van der Wijk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vanderwijk/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-random-text-randomtext-not-working/#post-1859863)
 * Status: not resolved