I’m having a problem here and I am not sure how to proceed. I need to have the entries listed randomly without duplicating entries when I paginate. Right now with the following line

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{master_weblog_name}" orderby="random" sort="desc" limit="4"}

the first four entries are correct but when I click on subsequent pages, enteries from the first set often show up on the next page. Is there any way around this so that no entries are repeated? I have about 100 entries that need to work this way.

Thanks,

Alex

My guess is no as on each page it’s calling four at random so it can just naturally call one of the same ones. The only way I can think that it would work is if it was keeping track of the ones already displayed. Don’t know how to accomplish that though.
Will be interesting to see if the gurus can come up with something but I’ll bet it won’t be simple.

PXLated is correct, as each page has to run a new query, the “random” bit is going to be repeated.  A customized cache would be the only way I can see to do it, and you would have to have a separate cache for each IP address or it won’t work for each user.  That could induce a lot of strain on a server continually writing database / file caches for each individual person browsing the site.

Thanks for the quick responses. I think I will abandon this idea right away!

Kind regards,

Alex