Swift Slider – Load random slide

[eternalbeta]

Is there any way to have Swift Slider load a random slide to start with or is it locked to loading by post order? I know Revolution Slider has this option, but I would prefer to use Swift Slider since it is a bit lighter impact on site performance. I believe there is a way for default blog posts to be queried at random, so I was thinking there may be a way with swift slider as well.

Thanks

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Hi

You might be able to get a plugin that does this for custom post types, we usually use Post Types Order to set the order of the slides, but I’m not sure if it has a random option

– Kyle

[eternalbeta]

I actually managed to figure it out last night after I found that WordPress has core functionality for querying and displaying random posts, something I’ve never needed to do before.

In /plugins/swift-framework/includes/swift-slider/inc/ss-display.php, I added the ‘orderby’ => ‘rand’ to the code below:

  /* SLIDE QUERY
        ================================================== */
        $slide_count         = intval( $slide_count );
        $ss_args             = array(
            'post_type'             => 'swift-slider',
            'post_status'           => 'publish',
            'swift-slider-category' => $slide_category,
            'orderby'             => 'rand',
            'posts_per_page'        => $slide_count,
        );
        $swift_slider_slides = new WP_Query( $ss_args );
        $slides_count        = $swift_slider_slides->found_posts;
        if ( $slides_count < $slide_count ) {
            $slide_count = $slides_count;
        } else if ( $slide_count === 0 ) {
            $slide_count = $slides_count;
        }

I’ll just need to make a note to myself about this change for when I update the theme.

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Ok great! No problem