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Random Sticky

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1.0 2007-09-19 Plugins Freeware (?)

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On a website I needed a kind of “featured article of the day” to sit on top of all other articles. This article was to be pulled randomly from all entries of a particular weblog and was supposed to automatically change every 24 hours.

My first approach was to simply use:

{exp:weblog:entries limit="1" orderby="random" cache="yes" refresh="1440"

While this was working in principle there were two drawbacks:

  1. I’m clearing all caches when new entries are posted.
  2. Using two weblog:entries-tags - one for the random and one for the rest - leaves me with the possibilty of one article appearing twice unless I use some extra code to exclude the randomly selected entry from the second list.

So my second approach was writing a small plugin that randomly reassigns the ‘sticky’-flag(s) in a given weblog in fixed intervals.

 


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