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How To Redirect Website Users To A Random Post
This is written for instances where you want to redirect your WordPress website users and viewers to a random post, via menu item, page, plain ol’ text link, button, etc using SEO friendly redirect codes.
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Step 1: Create a php file
Creating a PHP file can be done many different ways. (Beginner examples: Use Microsoft Notepad and paste the code below, then save your extension as PHP. Or change an existent PHP file and paste the code below. )
Name the file page-random.php and paste in the code below:[Normal_Box]
// set arguments for get_posts() $args = array( 'numberposts' => 1, 'orderby' => 'rand' );
// get a random post from the database $my_random_post = get_posts ( $args );
// process the database request through a foreach loop
foreach ( $my_random_post as $post ) {
// redirect the user to the random post
wp_redirect ( get_permalink ( $post->ID ), 307 );
exit;
}
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Step 2: Upload page-random.php into your theme’s directory
Your theme’s directory can be found in your FTP manager under wp-content>Themes>Your Theme.
Step 3: Create a page titled “random” on WordPress
Login to your WordPress dashboard, create a new page and title it random.
Once you have created the random page in your WordPress interface users who visit http://yourwebsite.com/random will be directed to a random post.
307 HTTP redirect codes
Adapted into the code above is a 307 status code. Using 307 codes for redirecting users to random posts will allow search engine bots to understand this is just a temporary redirect, otherwise redirects are not considered SEO friendly.[/Normal_Box]
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Awesome, works great, I was looking for this code for ages.
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Thanks, that was easy!
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Others wrote bad redirect codes which I ended up getting penalized for.
I now figure because they didn’t include the 307 in their redirect code part only a 302.
Thank you for sharing, wish I found this first.
Cool. thank you!
Good post. Always works like a charm.
This is the right way to redirect users.
You can also change the number of posts from 1:
‘numberposts’ => 10,
Thanks for including the 307 redirect code.