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#1 2021-04-24 17:00:32
- katatonik
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Random article display no longer works
Hi,
I’m displaying a link to a random article on the start page of my weblog, using this code:
<txp:article_custom form=“random” limit=“1” sortby=“rand()” sortdir=“desc”/><br/>
This stopped working recently: the link no longer goes to a random article, but always to the most recent one. I also use the code on individual pages, and the behaviour there is the same.
I recently updated to 4.8.3, but I’m not quite sure whether this function stopped working because of the update.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
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Re: Random article display no longer works
Hi and welcome to the forum.
Your attributes are outdated – we haven’t used sortdir and sortby for a long time so your upgrade must have been quite a jump! Try this instead, using the sort attribute:
<txp:article_custom limit="1" sort="rand() desc" form="random" />If you put your site in Testing/Debugging mode it will show you any errors like deprecated attributes so you can hunt them down and update them.
Hope that helps.
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#3 2021-04-24 19:02:02
- katatonik
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Re: Random article display no longer works
Ouch! Thanks a lot, this is embarrassing. Indeed, this was a nearly ancient site and a long overdue update. Problem solved.
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