[SOLVED] How to have random posts only on index page (not category, author...)?

fususu · #1 Jun 19, 2013, 01:59 AM

At first, thanks for great theme

I'm working on an interesting online image-dictionary project (http://phut59.com), and I want to have random word on the index page. After a few searches I did it by adding a php code in function bfa_loop() in template_tags.php to query random posts.

Code:

function bfa_loop( $postformat = 'postformat' ) {

	query_posts($query_string . '&orderby=rand'); <!-- here is the code i added -->
	
	if( have_posts() ) : ?>
		
	<div class="post-list">
	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
		<?php bfa_get_template_part( $postformat, get_post_format() ); ?>		
	<?php endwhile; ?>
	</div>
...

And it worked, I have random posts on the index page, but it does also to the category and author page too. After that, I figured out the category and author page use the same main template index.php. So I guess that to have normal posts in category (or author page) I must create a new main template "category.php" then make a another loop function like this in template_tags.php

Code:

function bfa_loop_norandom( $postformat = 'postformat' ) {
	
	if( have_posts() ) : ?>
		
	<div class="post-list">
	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
		<?php bfa_get_template_part( $postformat, get_post_format() ); ?>		
	<?php endwhile; ?>
	</div>
...

Then call it in the category.php main template.

Code:

<!--<div id="container">-->
<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="main" class="row">
	<div id="content" class="cf col8">

      
    <?php bfa_loop_norandom( 'postformat' );  ?>
 			
	</div>
	
	<div id="widgetarea-one" class="col4">
		<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'Widget Area ONE' ); ?>
	</div>

</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

<!--</div>-->

But it did not work, there was nothing on category page (for example http://phut59.com/category/tu-sieu-de/) . It seemed the new function I added not work.

I wonder if someone can help.

Thanks in advance