I could only find old posts on this subject…

An activity directory we have has around 180 entries, and to be fair to each activity provider with exposure on the site, we need to randomize the results. I don’t really want to list 180 activities on one page…

Does anyone know a way to can paginate random results?..

In my head i’m thinking a query to produce all the entry ids required, and breaking it up into chunks of say 20 ids and populating the entry_id="13|42|147etc" parameter with each chunk per page, as this code works:

alas my coding skills are so poop i wouldn’t know where to begin with passing the info between the pages, and creating the next previous links… Any ideas…

Iain

Hi Iain,

Without some heavy custom code (most likely an extension) this really is a difficult one. Please add your voice to the feature request for random pagination.

cool will do,

this looks like pretty interesting temp solution/fix/hack: http://www.frequency-decoder.com/demo/table-sort-revisited/paginate/

That table sort js is slick!  And the_butcher is right- I think this is one for a feature request.  I can think of some options- but none of them are particularly elegant.

yeah, its really nice, lightweight too.

elegant… can’t be any worse than outputting 180 entries on a page - would love to know what ideas you have Robin.

oh, fyi the ‘Help Request Tips’ on your signature goes to a ‘You are not authorized to perform this action’ page Robin.

Iain.