Display random users with a view

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Last updated by Christian Cox 5 years, 6 months ago.

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June 25, 2019 at 4:07 pm #1276775

Vincent

I am trying to:
follow https://toolset.com/forums/topic/display-random-posts-with-a-view/ to create a random order for users and realised that does not has a random order option.

How do I create a random order for users with a view?

June 25, 2019 at 4:39 pm #1276785

Christian Cox

Hi, unfortunately WordPress's User Query does not support randomizing the result order the same way a post query does: https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_User_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters
Since Views uses WP_User_Query under the hood, there's nothing built in to provide that random ordering. This would require custom code that gets all the User IDs and returns a random one programmatically, or uses SQL to directly query the Users table in the database.

We offer one filter that might be useful here:
https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/views-filters/#wpv_filter_user_post_query
You can use this filter to manipulate the result set produced by the View, before the results are displayed.

A quick search led me to some articles that have some code you might find helpful if you're interested in crafting your own custom solution:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-randomly-display-registered-users-in-wordpress/
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/127083/displaying-a-random-user-with-a-shortcode