• How to Create a Page that Displays Random Posts

    Have you ever been to a site and saw this cool feature? They have a link in their top navigation to something like Stumbe! or Read Random Articles, or some other creative text. When you click on that link, it takes you to a page that displays one random page. Each time you refresh, you are delivered with a new post. Well this trick is just for you then.

    You would need to follow the trick #1 in this article to create a custom page template. And simply paste this code in there:
    01<?php
    02query_posts(array('orderby' => 'rand''showposts' => 1));
    03if (have_posts()) :
    04while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    05
    06<h1><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>
    07
    08<?php the_content(); ?>
    09
    10<?php endwhile;
    11endif; ?>
    This is a simple WordPress Loop that is running a query to display random posts and the number 1 in there is telling WordPress to only show 1 post. You can change that number, but most of the time people do it one post a time.