How I Built a Random Post Feed in WordPress Without Using RSS
When I started working on my website, theidioms.com, I wanted visitors to discover different content every time they visited. The problem was simple: the default WordPress RSS feed always showed the latest posts in date order. That was not ideal for a content-heavy website with hundreds of evergreen articles. Older idiom posts were getting buried, even though they were still highly useful. So I decided to build a custom solution. The Problem WordPress RSS feeds are mainly designed for recent content syndication. By default, they return: the latest published posts chronological ordering very limited control over randomization For my use case, this created a discovery problem. Visitors kept seeing only the newest articles, while older evergreen posts remained hidden. For a website…
