Wordpress pros inside pls: Random Post w/ thumbnails

[tonyparra]

Ive been trying to add random post with thumbnail to a blog, but cant get it to work, cant find a plugin :

<ul>
<?php
$args = array( 'numberposts' => 5, 'orderby' => 'rand', 'post_status' => 'publish', 'offset' => 0);
$rand_posts = get_posts( $args );
foreach( $rand_posts as $post ) : ?>
    <li><h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2><p><img src="<?php echo 

get_post_meta($post->ID, thumbnail, true); ?>" width="100" height="100">
</p></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

it spits out only the latest post and repeats it 5 times what the hall am i doing wrong???

[tonyparra]

tried this no luck

<li><h3>Some Random posts</h3>
 <ul>
 <?php $posts = get_posts(?orderby=rand&numberposts=5′); foreach($posts as $post) { ?>
 <li><a href=?<?php the_permalink(); ?>? title=?<?php  the_title(); ?>?><?php the_title(); ?></a>
 </li>
 <?php } ?>
 </ul>
 </li>

[tonyparra]

Ive been trying to add random post with thumbnail to a blog, but cant get it to work, cant find a plugin :

<ul>
<?php
$args = array( 'numberposts' => 5, 'orderby' => 'rand', 'post_status' => 'publish', 'offset' => 0);
$rand_posts = get_posts( $args );
foreach( $rand_posts as $post ) : ?>
    <li><h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2><p><img src="<?php echo 

get_post_meta($post->ID, thumbnail, true); ?>" width="100" height="100">
</p></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

it spits out only the latest post and repeats it 5 times what the hall am i doing wrong???

this one displays what i want but the permalink is all the same!! i fucking hate you right now wordpress

[fris]

I did something like this recently, but i picked it via category.

[tonyparra]

I did something like this recently, but i picked it via category.

can you enlighten me please

[tonyparra]

this one displays what i want but the permalink is all the same!! i fucking hate you right now wordpress

Im sorry i luv you wordpress

[Babaganoosh]

Im sorry i luv you wordpress

Wordpress understands we all say things we don't mean when we're angry and it forgives you.

[bpluva]

this one displays what i want but the permalink is all the same!! i fucking hate you right now wordpress

Try the code Below after while have_post the_post

<?php
global $wpdb;
$numposts = 32;
$rand_posts = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'publish' ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT $numposts");
foreach($rand_posts as $post) :
setup_postdata($post);
?>
<?php endforeach; ?>

[vdbucks]

Here ya go.. the proper way to do it ><

For use as the main or only loop:

<?php
$args1 = array(
        'posts_per_page'    => 5,
        'orderby'        => 'rand',
        'post_status'        => 'publish',
        'offset'        => 0
    );
query_posts($args1);

if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    <li>
    <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
    <p><img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, thumbnail, true); ?>" width="100" height="100"></p>
    </li>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

Use this as a secondary loop on a page with multiple loops... will save some resources by using the initial query from the main loop as opposed to creating a new query:

<?php 
$args2 = array(
        'posts_per_page'    => 5,
        'orderby'        => 'rand',
        'post_status'        => 'publish',
        'offset'        => 0
    );
$rand_posts = get_posts($args2);

foreach ($rand_posts as $post) : setup_postdata($post); ?>
    <li>
    <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
    <p><img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, thumbnail, true); ?>" width="100" height="100"></p>
    </li>
<?php endforeach; ?>

[fris]

can you enlighten me please

Had someone that wanted to show recent photos from a category, (each photo represents a post *each image thumb taken from posts with attachments*.

he always had his galleries in 1 category, so he wanted a widget or a shortcode to show recent pics (galleries)

[tonyparra]

Here ya go.. the proper way to do it ><

Thanks i did get it to work

[vdbucks]

Thanks i did get it to work

If you want to add a category clause to it.. you could add something like the following to the args array...

via category id:

$args1 = array(
        'cat'            => 3,
        'posts_per_page'    => 5,
        'orderby'        => 'rand',
        'post_status'        => 'publish',
        'offset'        => 0
    );
query_posts($args1); 

of course, you could also just use the category name like so:

$args1 = array(
        'category_name'        => 'cat_name_here',
        'posts_per_page'    => 5,
        'orderby'        => 'rand',
        'post_status'        => 'publish',
        'offset'        => 0
    );
query_posts($args1); 

or my favorite way, by category slug because I don't like using uppercase letters and/or spaces in my queries:

$Obj = get_category_by_slug('cat_slug_here');
$catid = $Obj->term_id;
$args1 = array(
        'cat'             => $catid,
        'posts_per_page'    => 5,
        'orderby'        => 'rand',
        'post_status'        => 'publish',
        'offset'        => 0
    );
query_posts($args1);