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  • December 29, 2014 at 9:31 pm #372820
    theoriginaljordan

    Hello,

    I am looking to do a somewhat advanced modification to the theme. My goal is to randomize the order of widgets in the widget area. This can happen to all widget areas across the site. I found this code 

    function shortcode_handler($atts, $content = "", $shortcodename = "", $meta = "")
			{
				$output = "";

				if(!isset($atts['widget_area'])) return $output;

				if( is_dynamic_sidebar( $atts['widget_area'] ) )
				{
					ob_start();
					dynamic_sidebar( $atts['widget_area'] );
					$output = ShortcodeHelper::avia_remove_autop(ob_get_clean(), true);

					if($output) $output = "<div class='avia-builder-widget-area clearfix ".$meta['el_class']."'>".$output."</div>";
				}

				return $output;
			}

	}
}

    Is there a way to add in a randomization step to the function?

    Thanks in advance!

    December 29, 2014 at 9:34 pm #372822
    stevewturnbull
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    December 29, 2014 at 9:43 pm #372829
    Elliott

    Hi!

    I don’t think that would be possible. The WordPress function for displaying a widget area does not have an option for randomizing the widgets and I could not find any plugins for it either.


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    Cheers!
    Elliott

    December 29, 2014 at 9:50 pm #372834
    theoriginaljordan

    Thanks for the fast response, it would be awesome if you could check out this function. Do you think I could somehow run the array through this.
    http://www.wp-code.com/wordpress-snippets/how-to-randomize-the-order-of-widgets/

    Sorry, edited with correct link, that other code was old.

    December 29, 2014 at 10:03 pm #372841
    Elliott

    Hi!

    Hmm, that looks like it might work. Try adding it to the bottom of your functions.php file and then replace “sidebar” in the code to “sidebar-1” or “sidebar-2” etc etc.

    Cheers!
    Elliott

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    December 29, 2014 at 10:08 pm #372844
    theoriginaljordan
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    December 29, 2014 at 10:14 pm #372851
    Elliott

    Hi!

    It seems to be working fine on my end. I created a custom widget area and it’s the 10th widget area on my setup so I set the sidebar name to “sidebar-10” and it’s randomizing the widgets assigned to this widget area on each page load.

    Cheers!
    Elliott

    December 29, 2014 at 10:16 pm #372854
    theoriginaljordan

    How do you find out what number the sidebar is? I also didn’t have it at the bottom of my functions.php, so that was probably the problem!

    Thanks again so much, life saver!

    December 29, 2014 at 10:20 pm #372859
    Elliott

    Hey!

    You just count the total number of widget areas your using.

    Cheers!
    Elliott

    December 29, 2014 at 10:21 pm #372860
    theoriginaljordan
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