News Menu Showing Items in Random order

[ponzinomics]

As suggested here, I am opening this functionality request. Currently news looks to be shown in ordered way. The request would be optionally showing the news in a random way.

This is just to prevent that the user sees always the same sequence of news whenever he reloads the page. It would be nicer news showing randomly.

Thanks

[Chris]

Drop the following code at the bottom of your home layout template and see if it produces the requested randomization:

<script type="text/javascript">
(function () {
var headlinesContainer = $('#news .items'),
headlines = (function NaiveShuffle(arr) { //jsperf.woohoo
var i,
temp,
j,
len = arr.length;
for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
j = ~~(Math.random() * len);
temp = arr[i];
arr[i] = arr[j];
arr[j] = temp;
}
return arr;
})($('div', headlinesContainer).each(function (i, e) {
$(e).attr('data-news-index', 'News Headline #' + i);
}))
headlines.detach().appendTo(headlinesContainer);
})()
</script>


[ponzinomics]

It does Eton, brilliant.

Adolfo