Title: Random Ordering
Last modified: August 5, 2020

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# Random Ordering

 *  Resolved [mitchellk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mitchellk/)
 * (@mitchellk)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-ordering-5/)
 * Great plugin, does just what it says.
 * The orderby=random does work but only randomizes based on the amount of items
   set to be displayed.
 * So if I say display 7 items it takes the first 7 items from the feed and then
   keeps randomizing them in the widget.
 * What I would like to be able to do, if at all possible, is to fetch X random 
   products from the feed. So I have a feed with 200 items and I want to pick 7 
   random one’s from the feed so that the widget is constantly displaying new items.
 * I’m using this for displaying woocommerce products on another site and it’s working
   great but is only showing the latest 7 products and ramdomizing them and I’d 
   like to be able to make it dig a little deeper and display many more products
   but only 7 at a time.

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 *  Plugin Author [Travis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tjtaylor/)
 * (@tjtaylor)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-ordering-5/#post-13283176)
 * Hello,
 * We do not currently have a method for including additional posts for randomizing.
   But I’ve added it as a request for a future release.
 * Thanks.

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