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WordPress is an easy to use blogging software program that is quite popular on the Internet today. One of the reasons for this is its versatility and ability to be customized in order to suit the specific needs of the site and its users. A benefit to using WordPress is the way it facilitates an interactive online community, allowing your viewers to read posts and comment on them. This accomplishes several things: it helps establish your brand, it promotes a positive image within your customer base, it gives you a vehicle to announce interesting news and events to the public and it allows your customers to provide valuable insight and feedback into your operations and procedures.
However, in order to make the most out of WordPress you want your users to stay on the site and peruse as many posts as possible. To do this you want to them to have easy access to posts and give them options to click on additional posts. The longer a user stays on the site, the more likely they will be to post and to contribute. Additionally, the more exposure they will have to your own advertising as well as possible paid or Pay Per Click advertising options you may also feature on your site. One of the ways to do this effectively is by using random posts.
Instead of displaying the posts in chronological order, the posts are instead displayed in random order. This is a great way to attract new users who may have an interest in older posts. For people who have newer WordPress blogs this process is easy to accomplish. All you need to do is use the query_posts() function and change the orderby=rand parameter. This is simple to do and will accomplish everything you need to do quite easily.
However, if you have an older version of WordPress and have not upgraded it, you will need to instead use a plugin. This will accomplish the same goal and is found on the WordPress Forums. Follow the directions found at http://wordpress.org/support/topic/70359#post-444323 to create this display option.
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