http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/portfolio-items-in-random-order Support Forum - Topic: Portfolio Items In Random Order? en-US Tue, 21 May 2013 10:13:28 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.kriesi.at/support/search.php http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/portfolio-items-in-random-order#post-20237 Tue, 31 May 2011 20:56:09 +0000 Dude 20237@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ <p>Closed :) </p> http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/portfolio-items-in-random-order#post-20206 Tue, 31 May 2011 18:04:00 +0000 manidini 20206@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ <p>James, thanks for getting back to me.</p> <p>Your first suggestion is not really feasible as on later pages it might get difficult to find new portfolio items which haven't been displayed yet (if any!).</p> <p>Your alternative will only work with a limited number of portfolio entries as otherwise the loading process of all those featured images will take too much time.</p> <p>I will let the user choose which display order he/she prefers.</p> <p>A random order does not really make sense for the end user, but is a requirement from my portfolio partners who want to be on top of the list from time to time no matter where they are placed in an alphabetical order.</p> <p>Anyway, this topic can be closed. </p> http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/portfolio-items-in-random-order#post-20189 Tue, 31 May 2011 09:28:49 +0000 James Morrison 20189@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ <p>Hey,</p> <p>Unfortunately this is one of the "problems" with using a random order. For paged pages (i.e. second / third / fourth etc) you would need to write some custom code to exclude all the portfolio entries from the 1st page and then display a random selection of items that remain. This would then need repeating to exclude entries from the 1st and 2nd pages for the 3rd etc.</p> <p>The alternative is to remove the pagination by changing the number of entries displayed on a page to exceed the number of entries that exist; this would ensure all entries are displayed on the same page in a random order.</p> <p>James </p> http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/portfolio-items-in-random-order#post-20152 Mon, 30 May 2011 15:34:17 +0000 manidini 20152@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ <p>Unfortunately this solution does only work with a small number of portfolio items.</p> <p>If Portfolio Pagination kicks in (because there are more portfolio items than the specified Portfolio Post Number) it seems to me as if a new result set is fetched from the database.</p> <p>So on page 1 I have portfolio items in random order (as expected). On page 2 I have a <strong>new</strong> set of portfolio items in random order.</p> <p>What happens: I see some portfolio items twice (on both pages) and others I see never! :( </p> http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/portfolio-items-in-random-order#post-20038 Sat, 28 May 2011 09:21:16 +0000 Dude 20038@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ <p>Glad that I could help you :) </p> http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/portfolio-items-in-random-order#post-19992 Fri, 27 May 2011 14:07:20 +0000 manidini 19992@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ <p>Cool stuff! You made my day! :)</p> <p>That works exactly as expected, Thanks a lot.</p> <p>I am now in a position to allow the user to sort the portfolio list on her own (by date of entry, by name, random, etc.)</p> <p>Cheers</p> <p>Manidini </p> http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/portfolio-items-in-random-order#post-19988 Fri, 27 May 2011 13:29:56 +0000 Dude 19988@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ <p>Hey,<br /> open up includes/loop-portfolio.php and replace:<br /> <pre><code>if(isset($avia_config[&#39;new_query&#39;])) { query_posts($avia_config[&#39;new_query&#39;]); }</code></pre> <p>with:<br /> <pre><code>if(isset($avia_config[&#39;new_query&#39;])) { $avia_config[&#39;new_query&#39;][&#39;orderby&#39;] = &quot;rand&quot;; query_posts($avia_config[&#39;new_query&#39;]); }</code></pre> http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/portfolio-items-in-random-order#post-19924 Thu, 26 May 2011 19:44:37 +0000 manidini 19924@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ <p>I would love to have the portfolio items displayed in random order as this would drastically improve my project.</p> <p>Although I am quite sure that this is very easy to achieve I haven't figured it out yet.</p> <p>Do you have any hints for me? </p>