How to show Random posts without using any Wordpress plugins

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How to show Random posts without using any WordPress plugins

Displaying the “Random posts” in your blog is the best ways to drag the users/ viewers attentions and hence helps in optimizing the bounce rates of your website. There are many plugins which display the random posts like Random Posts Widget ,Advanced Random Post ,Random Posts ,AJAX Random Posts ,Random Posts from Category ,Randomizer ,Random Featured Post and several others. Apart from these plugins you can also use light custom code to get the random posts which work on simple MySQL RAND() function to sort the random post using parameter values.

Code for displaying random posts in wordpress template

<ul>
<li>
<h2>Random thougths of my blog</h2>
<ul>
<?php
$rand_posts = get_posts('numberposts=5&orderby=rand');
foreach( $rand_posts as $post ) :
?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
<?php the_title(); ?>
</a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

Note: You can use the above code anywhere in your wordpress templates. If you like this post then must go through the 101 List Of Awesome WordPress Tips and Resources .

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Dj Says:
August 23rd, 2009 at 8:01 pm

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August 23rd, 2009 at 8:01 pm

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August 24th, 2009 at 8:23 pm

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Shekhar Says:
August 26th, 2009 at 9:55 pm

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osira Says:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:23 am

it’s very useful

mike Says:
December 9th, 2009 at 8:09 am

hey, nice code, just what I need, thank you

techprone Says:
December 27th, 2009 at 7:08 pm

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January 22nd, 2010 at 1:52 am

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Pete Kruvczuk Says:
January 22nd, 2010 at 2:38 am

Jesse Luna Says:
January 22nd, 2010 at 2:41 am

Nice quick tip – RT @pkruvczuk: How to show Random posts without using any WordPress plugins http://bit.ly/8boNHD #wordpress

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January 31st, 2010 at 9:18 am

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Azhar Kamar Says:
March 26th, 2010 at 3:04 am

Hi! Yeah, like Indra said, only your code works! I tried 3 others and they don’t seem to work. Thanks!

mon Says:
April 9th, 2010 at 7:27 am

it shows the same post 5 times. not working for me.

Landon Phillips Says:
May 2nd, 2010 at 10:49 pm

i have tried social media marketing for getting our new products to be known on the market. it seems to work well specially if the audience is targeted “

Elliot Russell Says:
May 19th, 2010 at 10:41 am

i was a former employee and now i am making my best effort to start up a small business.*;.

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