Is there a Wordpress plugin that shuffles your posts?

[Highest Def]

I have searched high and low and keep finding the same 'random posts' widgets. I want to just shuffle every post and eliminate dates all together. It's a Wordpress tube site and every few days I add 20 or 30 clips from a new sponsor, but I don't want the videos clumped together by site like that so I have been adding them with my own random dates, but I'd rather just add them all and have Wordpress do the randomizing.

[TeenSluts]

sounds like a great idea, wouldnt mind testing something like that out.

[Frasier]

removing the dates is something best done by hand, there are a couple plugin's out there that claim they can do it, but it really depends on your theme if they are successful or not.

A quick google on 'remove wp date/time' should give you some pretty step by step directions on how to edit the php loop to remove them. I was able to do this, so I'm sure you can too

There is a plugin called 'oldest to newest' that does exactly what it claims to do, but there is no randomization in it.

If you find a random post updater, let us know

[Highest Def]

Originally Posted by Frasier

removing the dates is something best done by hand, there are a couple plugin's out there that claim they can do it, but it really depends on your theme if they are successful or not.

A quick google on 'remove wp date/time' should give you some pretty step by step directions on how to edit the php loop to remove them. I was able to do this, so I'm sure you can too

There is a plugin called 'oldest to newest' that does exactly what it claims to do, but there is no randomization in it.

If you find a random post updater, let us know

Yeah, I already removed them from the loop so it doesn't display the dates anywhere, but it still shows the posts in the order I created them. I want the display to be totally random since tonight I may add 20 Asian videos, and tomorrow I'll add 20 lesbian videos etc.

[Frasier]

google is your friend

http://mr.hokya.com/post-randomizer/

how about a review on this when you try it

[harvey]

not sure what do you mean by shuffle, I take you mean random. If so, open your index.php, look for the loop and add something like this:

 
  
 <?php
 $rand_posts = get_posts('numberposts=10&orderby=rand');
 foreach( $rand_posts as $post ) :
 ?>
    <div class="post">
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>
 <?php endforeach; ?>

[Highest Def]

Originally Posted by Frasier

google is your friend

http://mr.hokya.com/post-randomizer/

how about a review on this when you try it

Can't get it to work. Says it's tested up to 2.9 and I just updated the site to 3.1
It also could be something with my theme but the docs on that plugin are non-existent.

[woj]

shouldn't be too hard to write something like that, if you are looking to invest a few bucks for this technology, hit me up icq: 33375924

[icymelon]

RYO Oldest To Newest
http://ryowebsite.com/?cat=11

[Ecchi22]

http://www.danielesalamina.it/advanced-random-post

[Kram]

I use this one Lazy Blog

[tonyparra]

Originally Posted by harvey

not sure what do you mean by shuffle, I take you mean random. If so, open your index.php, look for the loop and add something like this:

 
  
 <?php
 $rand_posts = get_posts('numberposts=10&orderby=rand');
 foreach( $rand_posts as $post ) :
 ?>
    <div class="post">
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>
 <?php endforeach; ?>

I would try this one first personally

[HowlingWulf]

I've been using
http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/...for-wordpress/
for a long time now. Works great.

[ottopottomouse]

Lots of usefulness. Just marking the thread so I can find it again.

[Highest Def]

Originally Posted by icymelon

RYO Oldest To Newest
http://ryowebsite.com/?cat=11

Uhh, No

Originally Posted by woj

shouldn't be too hard to write something like that, if you are looking to invest a few bucks for this technology, hit me up icq: 33375924

Looks like I may need to. Seems like it should be so easy though.

Originally Posted by Ecchi22

http://www.danielesalamina.it/advanced-random-post

Not quite. This is really just a glorified widget.

Originally Posted by Kram

I use this one Lazy Blog

No idea what this is, but not a chance in Detroit I'm downloading it.

Originally Posted by HowlingWulf

I've been using
http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/...for-wordpress/
for a long time now. Works great.

Closer, but still not really what I'm looking for.

Originally Posted by ottopottomouse

Lots of usefulness. Just marking the thread so I can find it again.

Sad aint it

[fris]

i use query_posts for tube style layouts, where i have random posts 4-8 of them, then the regular posts.

[tonyparra]

bump, looking for:

1. the plugin, or
2. the code, or
3. the price, of what you would charge to make it happen

[fris]

Originally Posted by tonyparra

I would try this one first personally

yes i use that on a tube theme, i have a row for featured videos, latest, then random.

[cjhmdm]

Just modify the loop for your specific needs/wants. That's pretty much all any plugin will do anyway. And at the end of the day it'd be better for you to learn how to do these types of things yourself.

Here's a good place to get started: http://codex.wordpress.org
More specifically: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts

[trannysphere]

sorry to bump this thread.. did you ever solved your problem? i might be looking for this one soon enough. will be building WP tubes and still need info.. up for you man!

[jimmy-3-way]

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/random-redirect/

You're welcome.

[Brujah]

A good post randomizer could be set to shuffle the existing datetimes once per x minutes/hours.

example:
get id,datetime from the db table
shuffle the datetimes
update each id with the new datetime

[garce]

Originally Posted by Brujah

A good post randomizer could be set to shuffle the existing datetimes once per x minutes/hours.

example:
get id,datetime from the db table
shuffle the datetimes
update each id with the new datetime

You'd have to make sure you weren't using a calendar or archives by date.

[GrouchyAdmin]

ORDER BY RAND()

Enjoy even more overhead than turdpress normally has.

[Brujah]

Originally Posted by garce

You'd have to make sure you weren't using a calendar or archives by date.

Why? in this example, the dates are meaningless and only being used to show content on the pages in a different order. In what case would you still want the Archives to show the original order?

[fris]

Grouchy sure hates wp

[GrouchyAdmin]

Originally Posted by fris

Grouchy sure hates wp

Yes, yes I do.

As does anyone who has to manage computers, not just skin them and go away - no offense, but WP is probably the biggest pile of shit written in PHP, and I'm including absolutely everything written in PHP, ever. ;)

[Brujah]

Originally Posted by GrouchyAdmin

Yes, yes I do.

As does anyone who has to manage computers, not just skin them and go away - no offense, but WP is probably the biggest pile of shit written in PHP, and I'm including absolutely everything written in PHP, ever. ;)

Obviously you've never used phpNuke

[GrouchyAdmin]

Originally Posted by Brujah

Obviously you've never used phpNuke

Oh holy god. I forgot about that. Can you believe it? I was, however, including phpBB2, and OpenBB (no longer exists).

[JosephFM]

Here's two of them.

http://www.yakupgovler.com/advanced-random-posts.html

http://www.danielesalamina.it/advanced-random-post (Page in Italian but files are in English)

[fris]

Originally Posted by GrouchyAdmin

Yes, yes I do.

As does anyone who has to manage computers, not just skin them and go away - no offense, but WP is probably the biggest pile of shit written in PHP, and I'm including absolutely everything written in PHP, ever. ;)

yes that may be it, but a good portion of high traffic websites use wordpress

[GrouchyAdmin]

Originally Posted by fris

yes that may be it, but a good portion of high traffic websites use wordpress

A good portion of high traffic websites also use Tomcat, but I'd prefer not to manage them, either.

[Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life]

Originally Posted by harvey

not sure what do you mean by shuffle, I take you mean random. If so, open your index.php, look for the loop and add something like this:

 
  
 <?php
 $rand_posts = get_posts('numberposts=10&orderby=rand');
 foreach( $rand_posts as $post ) :
 ?>
    <div class="post">
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>
 <?php endforeach; ?>

That's all i do, edit it right into the loop. Works good for throwing up random past articles in an external loop too.

[stocktrader23]

Originally Posted by GrouchyAdmin

A good portion of high traffic websites also use Tomcat, but I'd prefer not to manage them, either.

If you ever create something that makes site building / management as easy as WP plus has all of the benefits I'll be the first to sign up. Until then, manage away.

[fris]

Originally Posted by Highest Def

I have searched high and low and keep finding the same 'random posts' widgets. I want to just shuffle every post and eliminate dates all together. It's a Wordpress tube site and every few days I add 20 or 30 clips from a new sponsor, but I don't want the videos clumped together by site like that so I have been adding them with my own random dates, but I'd rather just add them all and have Wordpress do the randomizing.

you could do a random post with cookies, so that user never gets the same random post.

[jimmy-3-way]

Originally Posted by GrouchyAdmin

Yes, yes I do.

As does anyone who has to manage computers, not just skin them and go away - no offense, but WP is probably the biggest pile of shit written in PHP, and I'm including absolutely everything written in PHP, ever. ;)

I'm curious what is so bad about WP - would you be so kind as to name a few things?

[harvey]

Grouchy, I won't argue on the technical part, since I don't know, but when I see these retarded users, I assume they might have 1 or 2 coders that know a little, and since they're using WP, me and the average Joe will trust that crappy pile of shit known as WP. There might be better scripts, but if it's good for the fucking NASA, Yahoo, CNN, FOX, flickr and Reuters just to name a few, then I'm pretty sure it will be bananas for a small cat like me Oh, and the price ain't too shabby

The above being said, I'd be very interested in knowing what would you recommend as an alternative and why do you think WP is that bad (please don't say security, let's be serious here)

[Jdoughs]

I just use orderby=rand and WPCACHE to set the time limit on cache.


So this in effect randomizes my frontpage every "3600 seconds" or whatever I set it at.

[fris]

Originally Posted by harvey

Grouchy, I won't argue on the technical part, since I don't know, but when I see these retarded users, I assume they might have 1 or 2 coders that know a little, and since they're using WP, me and the average Joe will trust that crappy pile of shit known as WP. There might be better scripts, but if it's good for the fucking NASA, Yahoo, CNN, FOX, flickr and Reuters just to name a few, then I'm pretty sure it will be bananas for a small cat like me Oh, and the price ain't too shabby

The above being said, I'd be very interested in knowing what would you recommend as an alternative and why do you think WP is that bad (please don't say security, let's be serious here)

10 reasons

1. Easy Installation and Upgrades
2. Fully Customizable XHTML/CSS/PHP
3. Ease of Managing Content
4. Thousands of Useful Plug-ins
5. Fully Customizable URLs
6. Fully Functional Search
7. Ease of Changing Themes
8. Pings and Trackbacks
9. Huge community for technical support
10. It's Free

[stocktrader23]

Originally Posted by fris

10 reasons

[fris]

Originally Posted by Highest Def

I have searched high and low and keep finding the same 'random posts' widgets. I want to just shuffle every post and eliminate dates all together. It's a Wordpress tube site and every few days I add 20 or 30 clips from a new sponsor, but I don't want the videos clumped together by site like that so I have been adding them with my own random dates, but I'd rather just add them all and have Wordpress do the randomizing.

you could do something like this (very rough)

<?php 

// show 5 random posts, dont repeat the same posts for an hour

function fris_run_cookie($savecookieid) {

	setcookie("randompostsviewed", ''); //delete old ones
	$savecookiestr=serialize($savecookieid); //use serialize() to store the array
	setcookie("randompostsviewed",$savecookiestr,time()+3600*1,COOKIEPATH, COOKIE_DOMAIN); //keep for 1 hour by default 

}

if (isset($_COOKIE['randompostsviewed'])){
			$savecookiestr = $_COOKIE['randompostsviewed'];
			$savecookieid = unserialize($savecookiestr);
			}
			else{
				$savecookieid = array();
			} 
			$savecookieid[] = get_option("sticky_posts");
?>

<?php 

$args = array(
		'post_status' => 'publish',
		'caller_get_posts'=> 1,
		'post__not_in' => $savecookieid, 
		'orderby' => 'rand', 
		'posts_per_page' => 5
		);

		query_posts($args); 
	  
?>

	  <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

<?php if (!in_array($post->ID,$savecookieid,true)) {
			 $savecookieid[]= $post->ID;
			 }
			fris_run_cookie($savecookieid);
?>
			
<div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>

<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

<div class="entry-content">
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>

<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

[garce]

Originally Posted by Brujah

Why? in this example, the dates are meaningless and only being used to show content on the pages in a different order. In what case would you still want the Archives to show the original order?

I have no idea what I was thinking back then. Right now I'm thinking I don't want a post from 2005 to pop up on my index page. If the random call would only include the last month's posts - fine.

[harvey]

Originally Posted by garce

I have no idea what I was thinking back then. Right now I'm thinking I don't want a post from 2005 to pop up on my index page. If the random call would only include the last month's posts - fine.

here you have:

<?php
function filter_where($where = '') {
  //posts for last month
  $where .= " AND post_date > '" . date('Y-m-d', strtotime('-30 days')) . "'";
  return $where;
}
add_filter('posts_where', 'filter_where');
query_posts('numberposts=10&orderby=rand');
?>

[garce]

Originally Posted by harvey

here you have:

<?php
function filter_where($where = '') {
  //posts for last month
  $where .= " AND post_date > '" . date('Y-m-d', strtotime('-30 days')) . "'";
  return $where;
}
add_filter('posts_where', 'filter_where');
query_posts('numberposts=10&orderby=rand');
?>

You always come through. I will give this a shot. Thank you in advance.