Title: Request for random order
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Request for random order

 *  Resolved [Evan Scheingross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/evster/)
 * (@evster)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-for-random-order/)
 * Hi, first off great work on this little plugin thus far! It’s definitely saved
   me a lot of work.
 * However one feature that I wish was included in the widget was the ability to
   sort testimonials by random order.
 * I have a site where the client has requested 1 random testimonial displaying 
   in the sidebar of every page. But in order to accomplish this I need to manually
   code my own widget rather than use the native testimonial widget included with
   this plugin.
 * Just a suggestion for an easy update that I think many users would find helpful.
 * Thanks!
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/testimonials-by-woothemes/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/testimonials-by-woothemes/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Matt Cohen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyza/)
 * (@mattyza)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-for-random-order/#post-3311718)
 * Hi evster,
 * Thanks for your query. 🙂
 * You could use the “orderby” parameter and set this to “rand” when using the shortcode.
 * Please advise if this produces the desired result. 🙂
 * Thanks and regards,
    Matty.
 *  Thread Starter [Evan Scheingross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/evster/)
 * (@evster)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-for-random-order/#post-3311719)
 * Thanks Mattyza. That’s exactly what I did (though in my case I used php instead
   of a shortcode).
 * But what I was getting at was that it would be a cool feature to add that random
   sort order to the widget that’s part of the plugin. That way I won’t need to 
   create my own custom widget just to pull a random testimonial.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Matt Cohen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyza/)
 * (@mattyza)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-for-random-order/#post-3311724)
 * [@evster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/evster/) – This functionality has
   been added in version 1.2.1 of the plugin. 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Matt Cohen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyza/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-for-random-order/#post-3311724)
 * Status: resolved