Topic: Wordpress query_posts('orderby=rand') not working with WP-Sticky

[oneside]

hi,

iam using WP-Sticky 1.40 and Wordpress 2.7.1.

It seems, that there is a problem with ordering posts using query_posts('orderby=rand'), when WP-Sticky is installed and enabled.  The "orderby"-option is not working with all parameters then and the result will allways show the newest post first.
I found out, that someone has the same problem, he wrote an article about this problem (thanks to him):
http://www.conetrees.com/2009/03/blog/solution-to-query_posts-orderby-rand-not-working-in-wordpress/

Any ideas? thanks!
oneside

[GaMerZ]

Yes that is a technical limitations, it can't be fixed.

[Rooper3546]

I was using <?php query_posts('orderby=rand'); ?> to do the job. The downloads widget on my website was supposed to display one random post from the download section and did so fine on the local server. But on my live site, instead of displaying a random post, it’d simply default to displaying the most recent post. I did all I could and tried everything people suggested until I finally discovered, quite by accident, that it was the WP Sticky plugin that was causing the problem . I disabled the plugin and &rand began to work just fine on my live site! I was able to display random download posts just as I wanted to. So, if you’ve tried everything possible under the sun to randomize your posts using <?php query_posts('orderby=rand'); ?>, and you use WP Sticky, then try disabling the plugin and check whether it makes your randomize post issue disappear. Tennis Shoe