Views slider random order not working

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Last updated by Luo Yang 5 years, 6 months ago.

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October 27, 2018 at 1:13 pm #1135451

garyC

I am trying to: displays an automated slider of 12 testimonial posts, in a random order, as seen near the bottom of this page hidden link

I expected to see: a random post order when I refresh the page
Instead, I got: the same order every time I refresh the page

These testimonials are to be displayed across the site, so I don't want every page to start with the same testimonial

October 29, 2018 at 7:48 am #1135918

Luo Yang

Hi,

First, it is not recommended to use random order in a view with pagination, you should be able to see the warning message in section "Pagination and Sliders Settings":

Pagination combined with random ordering can lead to same items appearing in more than one pages. It's recommended not to combine pagination with random ordering, unless unexpected results are acceptable.

Second, for the problem "I don't want every page to start with the same testimonial", I suggest you disable the Views cache, for example:
You can add attribute cached="false" in view's shortcode [wpv-view], for example:

[wpv-view name="MY-VIEW-SLUG" cached="off"]

More help:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views-shortcodes/#wpv-view
cached (opt):
off
Turns off the caching system for the View.

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