Expected behavior of the orderby=”rand” display parameter?

  • Resolved eriksandall

    (@eriksandall)


    9 months, 2 weeks ago

    Does this display posts randomly upon each page refresh? Is one of the other orderby options selected randomly, and then the posts are ordered that way?

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  • Plugin Author Bill Erickson

    (@billerickson)

    Yes, that parameter is designed to randomly select posts on each page refresh. However, there are some things that can prevent it from working:

    1. If you have caching on your site (ex: WP Rocket) it will only regenerate for each uncached hit of the site. In practice this means it will only update for logged-out visitors every 12-24 hours.
    2. Some hosts like WPEngine disable orderby rand.
    Thread Starter eriksandall

    (@eriksandall)

    Great info. Thanks, Bill.

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