gatsby-source-wordpress : add a way to query posts in random order

[brisa-pedronetto]

Summary

Brief explanation of the feature.

When fetching posts with allWordpressPost there is no way to get the results in "random" order as it is possible in WP REST API. Maybe a good way to add it would be like so?

query MyQuery {
  allWordpressPost(sort: {order: RAND}, limit: 3) {
    edges {
      node {
        title
      }
    }
  }
}

Motivation

Sometimes a developer will want to show random posts as a way to diversify the navigation possibilities.

[vladar]

Thanks for the question.

I wonder if it makes sense for static sites? I mean after the page has been built users will always see the same list of posts anyway? So you'll need to rebuild the site to change the ordering again. Or am I missing something?

[brisa-pedronetto]

Thanks for the reply! Well, I guess you have got a point but it would nonetheless be useful even if the randomness is not at the access level, but at the page creation level. Still it would be interesting for some applications. Anyway, maybe it's not a priority issue :)

[pieh]

Not as neat as proposed feature, but you can achieve this by generating array of random ids in gatsby-node passing this via page context and using those in query to select pages:

// gatsby-node.js

export.sourceNodes = async ({ actions: { createPage }, graphql }) => {
  const result = await graphql(`
    allWordpressPost {
      nodes {
        id
      }
   }
  `)


createPage({
  path: `/some-path',
  component: require.resolve(`./src/templates/some-template`)
  context: {
    randomPostsIds: pickCoupleRandomValues(result.data.allWordpressPost.nodes.map(node => node.id))
  }
})

}

// in template
query ($randomPostsIds: [String!]!) {
  allWordpressPost(filter: { id: { in: $randomPostsIds } }) {
    nodes {
      title
    }
  }
}

[pieh]

Or creating custom resolver using schema customization that would do similar thing

[brisa-pedronetto]

Thank you for this solution, it will work great for what I need :)

[LekoArts]

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