Can front page posts show randomly?

There isn’t much response in this forum.

Fortunately, I was able to work out the solution by going elsewhere.

Add this to the functions file to randomise posts:

//Randomise posts on front page
add_action('pre_get_posts', 'my_pre_get_posts');
function my_pre_get_posts($query) {
    if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set('orderby', 'rand');
    }

Hi Lolley,

Thanks fot your post, was thinking about to do the same but unfortunately I can’t get it working.
I’m fairly new to wp but is it important where to put it in the functions.php?

This is my site: https://www.urbx.nl and the frontpage are the recent posts…

Well finally after many attempts is works.
Thanks again Lolley…

Hi,

I would like to the same as Lolley and I paste the code anywhere in the functions.php but that broke everything so I had to go back… Sorry I am completly new with this so could you please let me know exactly where to paste it or what to do ?
Many thanks in advance

I just was searching for the backticks in OSX and see Lolley answered allready ??

I simply added it to the bottom of functions.php, just before the closing tag, like this:

//Randomise posts on front page
add_action('pre_get_posts', 'my_pre_get_posts');
function my_pre_get_posts($query) {
    if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set('orderby', 'rand');
    }
}

?>

If you are using a child theme (the better way tbh) then create a new functions.php in the child’s directory and add the code between php tags.

Now there is one thing I should point out! Since this calls random posts you can get repetition of posts between pages of posts. When I move to the next page of posts I can see one or two that were on the first page! It doesn’t matter that much, but just so you are aware!