Title: Random ordering
Last modified: June 21, 2019

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# Random ordering

 *  [alinta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alinta/)
 * (@alinta)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-ordering/)
 * The random sorting of posts doesn’t work, it just orders them from oldest to 
   newest. I need them to be randomly ordered and for that order to change with 
   each new page load. It seems like such an easy thing to do for a widget, and 
   yet I can’t find a single widget that actually does it.

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-ordering/)
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