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#1 2014-03-21 20:56:58
- kentonq
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Randomly Display 10 Entries, Not Including Hidden
I’m trying to set up something where I show 10 random entries in a sidebar. This seems like it would be pretty easy, using the sort=“rand()” and limit=“10” attributes.
The problem is that a lot of the entries in this section have a status of “hidden”. This means that sometimes a hidden entry will be called by the sort attribute, and less than 10 entries will be displayed.
Does anyone know if there is a way to call random entries and exclude hidden entries from the search?
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Re: Randomly Display 10 Entries, Not Including Hidden
Hi, welcome to the forum!
kentonq wrote #279884:
The problem is that a lot of the entries in this section have a status of “hidden”. This means that sometimes a hidden entry will be called by the sort attribute, and less than 10 entries will be displayed.
I don’t see why this would happen, given that <txp:article(_custom) /> queries only visible articles. Have you already tried it?
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Re: Randomly Display 10 Entries, Not Including Hidden
Hi and welcome to txp.
Old txp versions had the ability to show non live or sticky articles in the front although unless specifically called they never appeared in the list. Just in case you are using an old install you can try: <txp:article_custom limit="10" status="live" break="li" wraptag="ul" sort="rand()"><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></txp:article_custom>
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