I am trying to display random events on my front page, in a text widget. It works, but not completely. It seems to be randomly cycling through only the upcoming 5-10 events (I have 50+ events a month).
\nI didn’t know if there was something in the plugin that is preventing orderby rand from working correctly. I thought I’d ask here before I go get yelled at in public forums.<\/p>\n
Here is the code I have in a text widget.<\/p>\n
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