Random Carousel Orders

[Mike Craycraft]

Hello,

I am creating a site and would like to show our participants and sponsors in a slider but have them appear in random order. I would like the carousel to just show the featured image (their logo) and that would link to their page that gives the details of their participation.

I am having hard time figuring out how to do this as most of the carousels are in date order.

Do you have any suggestions? I have tried all sorts of work arounds using clients, team, portfolio, testimonials, etc and have had no success.

Thanks,
Mike

[laranz – SUPPORT]

Hi Mike,

You want in the Galleries? If so \swift-framework\page-builder\builder\shortcodes\gallery.php You need to edit the args for the query in line #40-#45.

$gallery_args = array(
	'post_type' => 'galleries',
	'post_status' => 'publish',
	'p' => $gallery_id
);

Refer the parameters here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query

Let us know,

Thanks,
laranz.

[Mike Craycraft]

Hi Laranz,

I think one solution would be for us to create a team page for each of our participants and sponsors. Here is an example, http://talkabouttc.org/?team=awesome-organization-3 However the team carousel does not link the featured image to the team members profile page, nor does it automatically carousel. So, we are looking at also creating a client page and linking that featured image to the team page.

Thus, we would want the client carousel to show in random orders.

I’ve attached a screenshot showing the difference between the team carousel and client carousel options. Just being able to show the client carousel in random order according to the client category I think would be a working solution.

Thanks,
Mike

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[laranz – SUPPORT]

Hi,

Sorry, I am confused while reading the screenshot. Can you explain in a brief with simple steps. If that possible I will solution.

Let us know,

Thanks,
laranz.

[Mike Craycraft]

Hi Laranz,

Sorry for the confusion.

If we could get the client carousel to display in random order then I believe that is the easiest solution.

Thanks,
Mike

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Hi,

Unfortunately the random display of the Carousel doesn’t work as default, and creating a customization to it it’s a bit complex and because of that it goes outside of our support scope.

In the meantime I understand why the random is needed and will forward this suggestion to the development team so this can be considered it in a future update.

Thanks

-Rui

[Mike Craycraft]

Hi Rui,

Are there any of the carousels that allow for random order that would also allow for the image to link to somewhere else?

I know the testimonials are random but adding an image to the testimonial doesn’t really work.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike

[laranz – SUPPORT]

Hi Mike,

Try this, open up \wp-content\themes\dante\swift-framework\page-builder\builder\shortcodes\team-carousel.php in line #31 you saw a query formation, change that to this

$args=array(
'post_type' => 'team',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'team-category' => $category_slug,
'posts_per_page' => -1,
'ignore_sticky_posts'=> 1,
'no_found_rows' => 1,
'orderby' => 'rand'
);

Let us know,

Thanks,
laranz.

[laranz – SUPPORT]

Hi,

For more query function, refer this codex docs: http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query

Let us know,

Thanks,
laranz.