Displaying posts in category blocks in random order on the homepage in the BETA

Displaying posts in category blocks in random order on the homepage in the beta theme

I have placed in the beta theme this code in main.php, the category blocks is displayed correctly, but the random order is not working.

<div class="home-container latest">
    <div class="inner">

      <!-- LATEST LISTINGS BLOCK -->
      <div id="latest" class="products grid">
        <h2><?php _e('Lately added on our classifieds', 'beta'); ?></h2>

       
<?php
   osc_query_item(array(
    "category" => "1","results_per_page" => "4", "order" => "RAND()" )); ?>
 
 
        <?php if( osc_count_custom_items() > 0) { ?>
          <div class="block">
            <div class="prod-wrap">
              <?php $c = 1; ?>
              <?php while( osc_has_custom_items() ) { ?>
                <?php bet_draw_item($c); ?>
               
                <?php $c++; ?>
              <?php } ?>
            </div>
          </div>
       
        <?php } else { ?>
          <div class="home-empty">
            <img src="<?php echo osc_current_web_theme_url('images/home-empty.png'); ?>" />
            <strong><?php _e('No listing in category yet', 'beta'); ?></strong>
          </div>
        <?php } ?>

        <?php View::newInstance()->_erase('items') ; ?>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>

Maybe you dont have enough listings or result from database is not really random. Try to enable DB debug log and check query, then run it on database.

The code I entered is correct?

Code does not look wrong but you should verify SQL query generated. Also no cache should be enabled to have random data.

I upgraded to Osclass 8.3.0 and the random order worked immediately.

Possible, there were many updates including this functionality.

Okay, the test was done on a test site, so we will wait for the final version of Oclass 8.3.0 to upgrade to the official one site.