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Post type blocks: Add random sorting/filtering #286

Open bahiirwa opened 4 years ago

bahiirwa commented 4 years ago

Having a mix up for the speakers every time someone visits the page, adds flavor. Just wondering if this could be considered.

coreymckrill commented 4 years ago

At one point I think there was some discussion of having a "random" sort option for some of the WordCamp blocks. I'm not sure where that discussion is now.

I suspect we opted not to do it because trying to have a different random order with every page load is kind of problematic because of the caching that we have set up on WordCamp sites. The cached version with the same order would continue to show until the cache expired.

There might be a way around it, but it would require some more thought. @bahiirwa What do you think the use case is for random sorting? Where on a WordCamp site would it be used?