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

Create a new file and name it page-random.php. Paste the code below in it:

 // 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, see WP Codex for more details about page hierarchy).

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.

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Thanks to Smashing Magazine for the cool tip!