Title: Randomize Posts in Category
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Randomize Posts in Category

 *  [aweblogs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aweblogs/)
 * (@aweblogs)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/randomize-posts-in-category/)
 * I’ve seen another similar question here but it went unanswered, i hope someone
   can help me with this.
 * Basically i’m starting a mini site using WP and i have a few categories, each
   category will ONLY have a maximum of 5 posts.
 * What i need is for these posts to appear in random order whenever someone visits
   my category page, right now the default is it will display my latest post in 
   that category.
 * If anyone could help that would be great.
 * Thanks

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/randomize-posts-in-category/#post-588750)
 * nope, actually it didnt go unanswered 🙂
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/123896?replies=13](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/123896?replies=13)
 * the solution was to use shuffle
 * [http://www.php.net/shuffle](http://www.php.net/shuffle)
 * I cant give you much more since I dont know the query you’re using.
 *  Thread Starter [aweblogs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aweblogs/)
 * (@aweblogs)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/randomize-posts-in-category/#post-588760)
 * Sweet mother of God, thanks!! 😀
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/randomize-posts-in-category/#post-588842)
 * haha your welcome :O

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/randomize-posts-in-category/#post-588842)
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