Random Sort Settings

Unfortunately, not sure this is working.

Trying both a ~3 minute limit as well as the “every refresh” version against the “tiered-featured” sort I was experimenting (from our other thread https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/setting-up-two-levels-of-featured/#post-516997), but kept getting the same results.

To validate that something else wasn’t influencing the results with that other test, I tried refreshing multiple times against a purely “random” sort with not sub-sorting or other treatment and I continue to get the results in the same order.

Cheers

Using the recommended Snippets plugin, I tried individually, the following code set to run everywhere.

First:

add_filter('geodir_rand_seed','_my_geodir_rand_seed'); 
function _my_geodir_rand_seed($rand_seed){
$rand_seed = get_transient( 'geodir_rand_seed_custom' );
 
        // if we don't have a transient then set a new one
        if(!$rand_seed){
            $rand_seed = time();
            set_transient( 'geodir_rand_seed_custom', $rand_seed, .05 * HOUR_IN_SECONDS );
        }
 
        // validate
        $rand_seed = absint($rand_seed);
 
    return $rand_seed;
}

Then:

add_filter('geodir_rand_seed','__return_zero'); // Upon refresh

No sign of re-ordering even nearly 2 hours since I changed to the “Upon refresh” version.

Thanks

Naveen,

Thanks.
I think the coding example here:
https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs-v2/places/sorting/
may have some errors in it.

I noticed some differences in your code, beyond the MINUTE_IN_SECONDS vs the HOUR_IN_SECONDS that I was using from that page.

My code, taken from https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs-v2/places/sorting/

add_filter('geodir_rand_seed','_my_geodir_rand_seed'); 
function _my_geodir_rand_seed($rand_seed){
$rand_seed = get_transient( 'geodir_rand_seed_custom' );
 
        // if we don't have a transient then set a new one
        if(!$rand_seed){
            $rand_seed = time();
            set_transient( 'geodir_rand_seed_custom', $rand_seed, .05 * HOUR_IN_SECONDS );
        }
 
        // validate
        $rand_seed = absint($rand_seed);
 
    return $rand_seed;
}

VS your code:

add_filter('geodir_rand_seed','_my_geodir_rand_seed');
function _my_geodir_rand_seed($rand_seed) {
	$rand_seed = get_transient( 'geodir_rand_seed_custom' );

	// if we don't have a transient then set a new one
	if ( ! $rand_seed ) {
		$rand_seed = time();
		set_transient( 'geodir_rand_seed_custom', $rand_seed,
			5 * MINUTE_IN_SECONDS );
	}

	// validate
	$rand_seed = absint( $rand_seed );

	return $rand_seed;
}

Notice some differences between the two, especially in line 2 and line 6. Some of this may not matter, but I noticed that after adding a space in line two in my code between:
) {
That my code appears to work now also.

If that is the case, it would be helpful if someone could update the code example in the GD docs.

I still haven’t been able to get the other “randomize on refresh” code to work:

add_filter('geodir_rand_seed','__return_zero'); // Upon refresh

Cheers

No, that doesn’t seem to work either.

That would be nice for testing, but at least this other code works now and the timing can be adjusted to a smaller delay for testing.

Just to confirm and as I further edited the code for coding consistency and have tested and it appears to be working, this is the code that I am using now for randomization every 5 minutes.

add_filter('geodir_rand_seed','_my_geodir_rand_seed'); 
function _my_geodir_rand_seed($rand_seed) {
	$rand_seed = get_transient('geodir_rand_seed_custom');
 
        // if we don't have a transient then set a new one
        if (!$rand_seed) {
            $rand_seed = time();
            set_transient('geodir_rand_seed_custom', $rand_seed, 5 * MINUTE_IN_SECONDS);
        }
 
        // validate
        $rand_seed = absint($rand_seed);
 
    return $rand_seed;
}

Which I have set to run in the Snippets plugin, set to Run Snippet Everywhere, though I imagine this could be set to just run on the Front-end.

Cheers