RandomChild

RandomChild is a Radiant CMS extension that adds tags that work similar to <r:children:each>
yet randomizes the order of the child pages.

RandomChild with other plugins:

If you are using reorder plugin from Sean Cribbs the order of the child pages will be overridden.
This plugin is compatible with the Modulo extension from Lonnon (http://github.com/lonnon/modulo)

Installation

cd /path/to/radiant
git submodule add git://github.com/acrookston/random_child.git vendor/extensions/random_child

If you don’t have `git` you can download a tarball
Then untar it into vendor/extensions/random_child in your radiant directory.

How it works

Instead of using the normal <r:children:each>...</r:children:each> use <r:children:random>...</r:children:random> and then use it as normal.

Valid arguments are:

<r:children:random [limit="number"]
 [by="published_at|updated_at|created_at|slug|title|keywords|description"]
 [status="draft|reviewed|published|hidden|all"]>
 ...

Caching

Please note that the radiant caching will affect the output and only re-randomize the child pages when the cache time limit is up.