wordpress developers - advice on how to random posts from all categories

[mineistaken]

How to random display posts from all categories, most importantly when index.php is not a home page, since home page is static page.
Any solution?

[mineistaken]

any WP guru's ?

[alcstrategy]

as with anything there's many ways to skin a cat, but there's an example in wordpress docs here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts

numberposts is the number of posts you want
orderby is rand which is equiv to mysql rand() which is random num

the docs show other parameters you can use also

i guess you could put this in page.php, although I guess it depends where you want it, etc, but i just posted general example


<ul>
<?php
$args = array( 'numberposts' => 5, 'orderby' => 'rand' );
$rand_posts = get_posts( $args );
foreach( $rand_posts as $post ) : ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

[mineistaken]

Thanks. Would this ^ display random posts from all categories combined?

[alcstrategy]

i believe it will query posts from any category if that's what you mean
you can set categories with the "category" param

[mineistaken]

Originally Posted by alcstrategy

i believe it will query posts from any category if that's what you mean
you can set categories with the "category" param

To be clear, I mean from "all" categories.
Lets say there are 3 categories - blondes, brunettes and redheads.
I want to have page (not home page) where all posts from all 3 categories would be displayed at random order.

[Dankasaur]

Originally Posted by mineistaken

To be clear, I mean from "all" categories.
Lets say there are 3 categories - blondes, brunettes and redheads.
I want to have page (not home page) where all posts from all 3 categories would be displayed at random order.

You'd have to loop through all your categories and pull them, and then pull 3 random posts from each category.

[EddyTheDog]

Originally Posted by mineistaken

To be clear, I mean from "all" categories.
Lets say there are 3 categories - blondes, brunettes and redheads.
I want to have page (not home page) where all posts from all 3 categories would be displayed at random order.

I am not saying that code would work - I haven't tried it - If it does then it would show from all cats...

[EddyTheDog]

Originally Posted by Dankasaur

You'd have to loop through all your categories and pull them, and then pull 3 random posts from each category.

Wouldn't it use all posts and then randomize them?.....

[mineistaken]

Originally Posted by EddyTheDog

Wouldn't it use all posts and then randomize them?.....

Thats what I need. Pull all posts from all categories and display them all at random order

[alcstrategy]

it queries all posts and returns random order but will limit to 5 because of the numberposts paramater

[Dankasaur]

Originally Posted by EddyTheDog

Wouldn't it use all posts and then randomize them?.....

No because you'd pass the category off to the query for posts and it'd only pull random ones in that category.

[BSleazy]

You should be able to do something like this

<?php $posts = get_posts('orderby=rand&numberposts=10'); foreach($posts as $post) { ?>