I have selected to default sort the results of a search in ‘random’ order.
The issue is when I have multiple page results the page re-randomises it on reload so some results are show multiple times and some not at all. I understand this is a wordpress query issue.
I have found some code that should work, by storing the value in a session seed() however, it stops the randomisation completely.
This is my code:
session_start();
add_filter(‘posts_orderby’, ‘edit_posts_orderby’);
function edit_posts_orderby($orderby_statement) {
if( !is_admin() ) {
$seed = $_SESSION[‘seed’];
if (empty($seed)) {
$seed = rand();
$_SESSION[‘seed’] = $seed;
}
$orderby_statement = ‘RAND(‘.$seed.’)’;
}
return $orderby_statement;
}
How can I get it to work with this plugin?
Thanks