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I have a client using Events Calendar Pro.<br \/> We display a list of 6 current events on the home page.<br \/> Due to their being some very long running events, the same 6 always get displayed, is there anyway i can get it to select 6 random events (that started before today and end after today)?<\/p>\n<p>I have had a poke around the code and i can see where the WHERE statements are being prepared, would it just be a case of amending these?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19253","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Display events random like -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/display-events-random-like\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Display events random like -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi. 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