Title: Random link list
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Random link list

 *  [shadow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shadow/)
 * (@shadow)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-link-list/)
 * Hi,
    I’ve been searching through the forums and looking online but can’t find
   exactly what I am looking for. I have taken my links off my front page [created
   a links page]and would like to be able to display a small random list of links
   instead. Does anyone know of a way to show a small list of random links from 
   the links in the database? Thank you to anyone who has a suggestion.

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-link-list/#post-89043)
 * Matt uses a list of 12, but they seem updated by ‘updated’
    It’s the bar div 
   here: [http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Matt/photomatt.net/index.php](http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Matt/photomatt.net/index.php)
 *  [holographic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/holographic/)
 * (@holographic)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-link-list/#post-89067)
 * [http://wiki.wordpress.org/get_links](http://wiki.wordpress.org/get_links)
    set
   a limit of however many links you want, and order by ‘random’ eg for a random
   list of 5 links: `<?php get_links(-1, '', '<br/>', '', 1, 'rand', 1, 0, 5, 1);?
   >`
 *  Thread Starter [shadow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shadow/)
 * (@shadow)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-link-list/#post-89072)
 * Thanks Podz.
    I gave it a try but not sure if I am not using it correctly or 
   whether it is tied in to the updates and if so, I am not sure of how frequently
   that is happening etc… Thanks Holographic. It looks like this is doing almost
   exactly what I am aiming to do. Just one thing – something in here is calling
   the link descriptions too. If I want to turn that off how do I do so? Thanks 
   to you both for your help 🙂
 *  [holographic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/holographic/)
 * (@holographic)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-link-list/#post-89075)
 * one of the parameters is ‘show_description’. Set it to 0 (false)
 *  Thread Starter [shadow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shadow/)
 * (@shadow)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-link-list/#post-89079)
 * Sorted,
    Thanks Holographic 🙂

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [shadow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shadow/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-link-list/#post-89079)
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