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How to Create a Page that Displays Random Posts
Posted by Anbu
Published on Saturday, February 16, 2013
Problem:
How to Create a Page that Displays Random Posts
Solution:
How to Create a Page that Displays Random Posts
Solution:
Have you ever been to a site and saw this cool feature? They have a link in their top navigation to something like Stumbe! or Read Random Articles, or some other creative text. When you click on that link, it takes you to a page that displays one random page. Each time you refresh, you are delivered with a new post. Well this trick is just for you then.
You would need to follow the trick #1 in this article to create a custom page template. And simply paste this code in there:
| 01 | <?php | |
| 02 | query_posts(array('orderby' => 'rand', 'showposts' => 1)); | |
| 03 | if (have_posts()) : | |
| 04 | while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> | |
| 05 | | |
| 06 | <h1><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1> | |
| 07 | | |
| 08 | <?php the_content(); ?> | |
| 09 | | |
| 10 | <?php endwhile; | |
| 11 | endif; ?> |
This is a simple WordPress Loop that is running a query to display random posts and the number 1 in there is telling WordPress to only show 1 post. You can change that number, but most of the time people do it one post a time.
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