[wp-hackers] show 2 random posts from the last 20 posts from the Featured category

[Joan Artés]

Yes, try this ;)

Joan Artés
http://joanartes.com


2013/2/21 Haluk Karamete <halukkaramete at gmail.com>

> That would not not take from the last 20 recent featured ones though.
>
> but anyway, with a little research, I think the following does the job.
>
> shuffle( $my_query->posts );
>
> Run this, right before the while loop abd whatever is in the posts
> array ( last 20 featured posts for example ), get shuffled.
> And then I exit at 2.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Kirk Wight <kwight at kwight.ca> wrote:
> > Thinking out loud, you could query for the last twenty posts returned in
> > random order, and pull the first two of off the results.
> >
> > On 21 February 2013 16:51, Haluk Karamete <halukkaramete at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> When you want to show 2 random posts from the last 20 posts from the
> >> Featured category, what's the best way to handle it?
> >>
> >> When I go,
> >>
> >> $args = array(
> >>    'category_name' => 'featured',
> >>    'posts_per_page' => 2),
> >>
> >> it pulls the last 2 posts from the featured cat. Obviously no
> >> randomness can be achieved as such. It's the same as asking gimme the
> >> last 2 posts from featured.
> >>
> >> If I go
> >>
> >> $args = array(
> >>    'category_name' => 'featured',
> >>    'posts_per_page' => 2,
> >>    'orderby' => 'rand'),
> >>
> >> then I get the two 2 random posts. but then, recent'ness goes out the
> >> window. I may be randomly picking featured posts that are as old as
> >> the website is.
> >>
> >> For a moment, I thought the following would have worked.
> >>
> >> $args = array(
> >>    'category_name' => 'featured',
> >>    'posts_per_page' => 20,
> >>    'orderby' => 'date rand'    //notice the double order by here
> >> );   // inspired by the
> >>
> >>
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters
> >> codex entry.
> >>
> >> I thought, this would have first picked the last 20 posts, and then
> >> randomly shuffle the order and then return the results. If that were
> >> to work, I would have exited the while loop at iteration 2 achieving
> >> my goal.
> >> But that too fails. It totally ignores the second aspect, the 'rand'
> >> that is. and you always get the  recent 20 in the most recent to least
> >> recent order.
> >>
> >> So, how do you achieve that original goal which is "show 2 random
> >> posts from the last 20 posts from the Featured category"?
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