Blog Post Content Element used on Page: Possible to randomize posts that appear?

Hey gatehealing,
To show your blog posts randomly on your site, when using the blog posts element, Try adding this code to the end of your functions.php file in Appearance > Editor:

add_filter('avia_blog_post_query', 'avia_modify_post_grid_query_rand');

function avia_modify_post_grid_query_rand( $query ) {
$query['orderby'] = 'rand';
return $query;
}

This was found at the Blog Post element documentation

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
If the code didn’t work, check that the quotes didn’t turn into curly quotes when you copied the code.

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
I have tried a few solutions on my localhost & found this a little trickier than expected, but I found this one to show the post randomly:

add_filter('avia_post_slide_query','avia_order_by_random', 10, 2);
function avia_order_by_random($query, $params) {
$query['orderby'] = 'title';
$query['orderby'] = 'rand';
return $query;
}

and this one to show the blog posts randomly within a category.

add_filter('avia_post_slide_query','avia_order_by_random', 10, 2);
function avia_order_by_random($query, $params)
{
$query['orderby'] = 'title';
$query['order'] = 'rand';

$terms = explode(',', $params['categories']);
if (!empty($terms) && in_array(1, $terms)) 
{
    $query['orderby'] = 'date';
}
return $query;
}

the “1” is the category, please adjust to suit.

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
Glad we were able to help, we will close this now. Thank you for using Enfold.

For your information, you can take a look at Enfold documentation here
For any other questions or issues, feel free to start new threads under Enfold sub forum and we will gladly try to help you :)

Best regards,
Mike