Random WP_Query Tip

[Trevor]

I was following this gist from this post: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/random-featured-event-custom-widget/#post-15378.

I created the same type of custom WP_Query.
However, orderby = ‘rand’ would not work. My event posts were never randomized. I had to change:

‘post_type’ = ‘tribe_events’
to
‘post_type’ = array(TribeEvents::POSTTYPE)

Hopefully this note saves someone the pain I went through. Not sure why it fixes it, was a total fluke I found this fix.

Cheers,
Trevor

PS…sorry had to edit the code examples above so they didn’t get stripped. Not sure what the shortcodes are for inserting code snippets.

[Barry]

Thanks for the tip Trevor.

Unfortunately this forum doesn’t handle code very well – there are no bbcode style codes for instance – so the best idea is to use a service like Pastebin or Gist and link back from here.

[Kyle]

Thanks for this! Helped me out

[Author]

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