Website development and design troubleshooting/ question

[lcm]

Selling product. 
Probably Shopify.

Shopify probably sells domains also, and makes it simplest.
I personally prefer buying through cloudflare

[Yo ssi]

Shopify probably sells domains also, and makes it simplest.
I personally prefer buying through cloudflare

Note: You cannot change the nameservers of a domain registered with Cloudflare

What's their email forwarding like?

[etech0]

What's their email forwarding like?

I use cloudflare for DNS for domains registered with GoDaddy and it's very simple to set up email forwarding and domain hosting. Changed hosts a few times and it was a breeze (as opposed to when we moved the DNS from GoDaddy and things were down for hours).

[Yo ssi]

things were down

Speaking of which

[lcm]

What's their email forwarding like?

Quite solid

[Alexsei]

I use cloudflare for DNS for domains registered with GoDaddy and it's very simple to set up email forwarding and domain hosting. Changed hosts a few times and it was a breeze (as opposed to when we moved the DNS from GoDaddy and things were down for hours).

Cloudflare is king.
You can do so much more than just DNS

[etech0]

Cloudflare is king.
You can do so much more than just DNS

I think I also use it for CDN. Don't remember if anything else but it's so so much better at DNS than GoDaddy and another host I used in the past and forget which it was.
Any suggestions what else to use it for?

[Alexsei]

I think I also use it for CDN. Don't remember if anything else but it's so so much better at DNS than GoDaddy and another host I used in the past and forget which it was.
Any suggestions what else to use it for?

Authenticated access, proxies firewall, dmarc management, workers and more

[etech0]

Authenticated access, proxies firewall, dmarc management, workers and more

cool. I use it for dmarc also. Not sure what that other stuff is

[Alexsei]

cool. I use it for dmarc also. Not sure what that other stuff is

With proxy firewall cloudflare handles all actions on your site and can filter out much more malicious traffic then just on DNS level.

With authenticated access you can basically create an admin area on any part of your site that will require user authentication to access without any coding.

With workers you can run serverless JavaScript applications for mini apis etc

[etech0]

With proxy firewall cloudflare handles all actions on your site and can filter out much more malicious traffic then just on DNS level.

With authenticated access you can basically create an admin area on any part of your site that will require user authentication to access without any coding.

With workers you can run serverless JavaScript applications for mini apis etc

Cool!

[YYbochur]

I have this website here chanukahnyc.com and I want to randomize the order of the posts shown on the website.
for example, if someone clicks "attractions" I want the list of posts there to be shuffled instead of just showing the latest post.
The query loop block in wordpress offers the option to sort by date or alphabetically, but i want them to be randomized.

anyone know how to do it?

[Cholentfresser]

I have this website here chanukahnyc.com and I want to randomize the order of the posts shown on the website.
for example, if someone clicks "attractions" I want the list of posts there to be shuffled instead of just showing the latest post.
The query loop block in wordpress offers the option to sort by date or alphabetically, but i want them to be randomized.

anyone know how to do it?

I'm not too familiar with WordPress, but it seems you're correct that it only supports date or alpha. https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/query-loop-block/content/

If you're ok doing it in js, you can hide the contents on page load, and shuffle them before displaying, but it would happen on the frontend.

Doing it on the backend in WordPress/PHP would be preferred, if its possible.

[YYbochur]

I'm not too familiar with WordPress, but it seems you're correct that it only supports date or alpha. https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/query-loop-block/content/

If you're ok doing it in js, you can hide the contents on page load, and shuffle them before displaying, but it would happen on the frontend.

Doing it on the backend in WordPress/PHP would be preferred, if its possible.

how exactly would i do that?

[Cholentfresser]

how exactly would i do that?

It would be something like this, but it might need to be edited based on your setup.
Add this to the custom functions..

function modify_query_loop_to_random($query) {
    if (!is_admin() && $query->is_main_query() && isset($query->query['post_type'])) {
        $query->set('orderby', 'rand');
    }
}
add_action('pre_get_posts', 'modify_query_loop_to_random');

[YYbochur]

It would be something like this, but it might need to be edited based on your setup.
Add this to the custom functions..

function modify_query_loop_to_random($query) {
    if (!is_admin() && $query->is_main_query() && isset($query->query['post_type'])) {
        $query->set('orderby', 'rand');
    }
}
add_action('pre_get_posts', 'modify_query_loop_to_random');

thanks for your time, but after trying dozens of plugins and looking all over the internet, i found a plugin called advanced query loop. which gives you a query loop with more options,including randomization.
I'll hang on to this code in case though. thanks