How To Redirect Users To A Random Post In WordPress

Pasting the following snippet to your page-random.php file will let you redirect users to a random post.

// 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 ) );
  exit;
}

// 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 ) );

exit;

}

Snippet Source/Credit: Smashing Magazine

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