Micah Wood

@ironlion37

Sorry to hear you are having trouble.

The default settings for the shortcode are to show the post title, featured image and excerpt. The plugin is configured to only pull posts with images when the option for showing the image is set. So, you have two options:

1) Upload featured images to your posts.

2) Update the shortcode to not require images: [random_post_on_refresh show="title, excerpt"].

Awesome! Glad you found it useful!

Thanks for the feedback!

@mksnmks,

Thank you so much for the suggestion!

I’ve gone ahead and created an issue on GitHub for this: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/8725

I would recommend that you mark this ticket on the forum as closed and then subscribe to the GitHub issue if you’d like to follow the progress or add any additional comments.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by Micah Wood.

@realnicewebsites

I’d recommend you check out my other plugin: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/random-post-on-refresh/

That plugin should allow you to do exactly what you want!

My apologies. I just released version 1.0.1 which will fix your issue. If you need help upgrading the plugin on that site since you can’t log in, just reach out to me directly here:https://wpscholar.com/contact/

@dlongm01

The CTRL+F5 approach actually only does a hard refresh. However, most browsers also have the ability to do a more extensive clearing of the cache. The issue though is that this would only address the browser cache.

There are a number of different types of caching that can take place at different locations. There is the browser cache, WordPress caching plugins, object caching, reverse proxy caching, etc.

Most likely, you have one of the two happening:

1. A WordPress caching plugin is serving up the same content for all logged out users until the page is updated again in WordPress (which would generally clear the cache for that page).

2. Your web host is running a reverse proxy cache that serves the same content unless it has reason to believe it shouldn’t. It is common that a reverse proxy cache won’t cache when cookies are set, such as those used when you are logged into WordPress.

So, if you know you have a certain caching plugin active or want to divulge which web host you are using, I can provide a bit more detail on what specifically might be going on. In the case of #1, you may be able to add a rule to not cache the page(s) on which you want the images to display at random. In the case of #2, you may be able to contact your host and set up similar rules, or you may be able to leverage your host’s built-in cache busting to overcome the issue.

@dlongm01

This is most likely a caching issue. Some web hosts cache the generated page for logged out users, which would prevent the content from changing. If this is the case, I’m afraid the plugin will only provide a fresh image for logged out users after the cache expires or is flushed.

Yes

Sorry about that. If you go to Promotions and then to Sliders you can use the slug for a slider as the ID.

That is super awesome @areimann !

@lucabrasi40 Because the post is now the homepage, it is going to get the homepage context in WordPress. Most likely, your theme is configured to not show a left nav on the homepage because the nav is meant for those deeper into your site hierarchy.

So, you aren’t doing anything wrong… the theme is just making an assumption that would be correct except in this particular scenario. Unless your theme gives you the option somehow to re-enable that left nav or you know enough about code (or know someone who does) to change the theme, there may not be much you can do about that.

@mikeand13

Taking a look at your test page, it appears that the images are now coming through as full-size. However, the actual full size of the images is smaller than the 1400px width you indicated you were trying to achieve earlier.

I’m not sure what you’re familiarity or capabilities are with regards to CSS, but I’ll mention what you can do to stretch and/or center those images…

To stretch the width of the images, you can apply this CSS rule:

figure img {width: 100%;}

I’m not seeing any other figure tags on your site, so that may just work as-is… if not, you may need to make it more specific.

To center the image, just apply this CSS rule:

figure {text-align:center;}

Again, that is generic and may need to be made more specific.

@mikeand13

What version of the plugin are you using? If you are getting an error saying that ‘full’ is not a valid size, that was fixed in version 2.1.1. You may need to ensure that you are using full (lowercase) not Full uppercase.

@franfaulkner,

Currently, there is no option in the customizer. All you have to do is visit the Settings page in the WordPress admin and navigate to the Reading options in the submenu. From there, just use the normal WordPress dropdown to select the front page. Normally, WordPress only populates this with pages, but with the plugin installed you will also see other content types in this dropdown.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by Micah Wood.