Title: Random images image.php Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Random images image.php * [Famous](https://wordpress.org/support/users/famous/) * (@famous) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-images-imagephp/) * How can I show random images on my image.php page? Some thumbnails of particular posts? * Don’t want to use a plugin. * Using twentyTwelve theme * Thank you Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * Thread Starter [Famous](https://wordpress.org/support/users/famous/) * (@famous) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-images-imagephp/#post-3676024) * so I found this, but is there a way to specify how many images show, and stop duplicate images? * ``` 'any', 'post_type' => 'attachment' ) ); $key = array_rand($query->posts, 1); echo wp_get_attachment_image($query->posts[$key]->ID, 'thumbnail'); ?> ``` * _[Please post code & markup between backticks or use the code button. Your posted code may now have been permanently damaged by the forum’s parser.]_ * Thanks * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-images-imagephp/#post-3676026) * Do not edit the Twenty Twelve theme. It is the default WordPress theme and having access to an **unedited** version of the theme is vital when dealing with a range of site issues. First [create a child theme for your changes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes). * Thread Starter [Famous](https://wordpress.org/support/users/famous/) * (@famous) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-images-imagephp/#post-3676027) * way ahead of you on that Esmi. I always use child themes. Got any ideas on how to do it? * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-images-imagephp/#post-3676030) * Have you had a look at [http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/11662/get-all-images-in-media-gallery](http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/11662/get-all-images-in-media-gallery) * Thread Starter [Famous](https://wordpress.org/support/users/famous/) * (@famous) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-images-imagephp/#post-3676038) * not sure about that link. Can you tell me what the link is to take me to an image url? * Thanks * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-images-imagephp/#post-3676039) * [wp_get_attachment_url()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_attachment_url) is the WordPress function that will actually output an image url – like `http:// example.net/wp-content/uploads/filename.jpg`. o: * ``` $query_images_args = array( 'post_type' => 'attachment', 'post_mime_type' =>'image', 'post_status' => 'inherit', 'posts_per_page' => -1, ); $query_images = new WP_Query( $query_images_args ); $images = array(); foreach ( $query_images->posts as $image) { $images[]= wp_get_attachment_url( $image->ID ); } ``` * will grab all of the images in the media library & dump their urls into an array called $images. You can use that array of image urls in any way that you want. If you want a couple of random images, you could use [PHP’s rand function](http://php.net/manual/en/function.rand.php) to generate a couple of random numbers between 0 and `ount( $image )` (which is the number of items in the image array. * making sure that one of these random images isn’t a replica of the main displayed image could be tricky, though. * Thread Starter [Famous](https://wordpress.org/support/users/famous/) * (@famous) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-images-imagephp/#post-3676042) * I worded that incorrect – I need this next_attachment_url to take me to the image page. Not a refresh with a new image. I need it to take me to that images url, not the jpg url. Any ideas? * Thanks * Thread Starter [Famous](https://wordpress.org/support/users/famous/) * (@famous) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-images-imagephp/#post-3676062) * by the way this doesn’t work: * ``` 'attachment', 'post_mime_type' =>'image', 'post_status' => 'inherit', 'posts_per_page' => -1, ); $query_images = new WP_Query( $query_images_args ); $images = array(); foreach ( $query_images->posts as $image) { $images[]= wp_get_attachment_url( $image->ID ); } ?> ``` * Thread Starter [Famous](https://wordpress.org/support/users/famous/) * (@famous) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-images-imagephp/#post-3676066) * Can someone please point out code that will show a random thumbnail in twentytwelve theme with a link to its post page? * Thank you * Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/) * (@bcworkz) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-images-imagephp/#post-3676104) * The code esmi provided works, but it is not a turnkey solution. You need to do some of the work. The code just stuffs a bunch of attachment IDs into an array. The code you develop needs to randomly grab one ID. With the ID, you can get the image source with `wp_get_attachment_image_src()` and the image’s page permalink with `get_permalink()`. With all that you can output all the HTML required to show a random thumbnail with a link to it’s page. * If you wrap this all in a function, you can call the function from your child theme’s template where ever you want the thumbnail to appear. 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