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• #161576

  
  Anaïs
  

  On June 13, 2014 at 3:31 pm

  Hello,

  Into the block Frontpage Posts, I would like to display random posts, instead of recent posts. Do you know how I can change that and make it possible? Maybe by changing a function?

  Thanks a lot for your help.

  And it’s a very nice theme by the way, congrats 🙂

  #161619

  
  Jaclyn
  

  On June 13, 2014 at 6:03 pm

  I am kind of having the same issue as you Anais! Except, I have 15 pages of blogs, and the posts seem to be scattered about. I set the preferences to display 6 posts per page, however 7 show up on most pages. Some of them only show 1 or 4 with gaps in-between the galleries. Any idea how to fix this? My site is phxarch.com/blog (specifically speaking about page 10)

  #161972

  
  Towfiq I.
  

  administrator

  On June 14, 2014 at 12:13 pm

  @Anais open up functions.php and add this:

  set_query_var( 'post_type', 'post' );

  after this:

  set_query_var( 'order_by', 'rand' );

  @Jaclyn Go to Settings> Reading and set the number of posts per page to 6.

  #162683

  
  Anaïs
  

  On June 15, 2014 at 10:14 pm

  Thank you for your answer Towfiq, but it still doesn’t work. The recent posts are still remaining ordered by their recentness, and not by random, even after I’ve added the query into the functions file as you said.

  Any other idea? Thanks again 🙂

  #162967

  
  Towfiq I.
  

  administrator

  On June 16, 2014 at 2:13 pm

  replace this:

  set_query_var( 'order_by', 'rand' );

  with:

  set_query_var( 'orderby', 'rand' );

  #162984

  
  Anaïs
  

  On June 16, 2014 at 2:47 pm

  Thank you so much! It’s working perfectly 🙂