How to redirect users to a random post in wordpess

What about giving a new life to your old posts by creating a page template that will redirect readers to a random post? Today, we are going to show you how to easily create this kind of page.

Create a new fine named with page-random.php and paste the given below code.

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// set arguments for get_posts()
$args = array(
    'numberposts' => 1,
    'orderby' => 'rand'
);
 
// get a random post from the database
$my_random_post = get_posts ( $args );
 
// process the database request through a foreach loop
foreach ( $my_random_post as $post ) {
  // redirect the user to the random post
  wp_redirect ( get_permalink ( $post->ID ) );
  exit;
}

Once done, upload the page-random.php file to your theme directory. Then, login to your WordPress dashboard and create a new page, called “random” (You have to call it random, otherwise, the standard page layout will apply).

After you published the random page, any user who’ll visit the http://www.yourwebsite.com/random page will be automatically redirected to a random post.

Once clicked on “random” page link it will redirect to a post. Here in given below figure “dummy post” is displaying.

Clicking again on same page link it will change post randomlly. Here in given below figure post has been changed.