Mobile Display

@ James

re: I have my directory set to display the entries in random order using the shortcode. On my lap top I am seeing correctly, the entries appearing randomly on the landing page, every hour. However, on my mobile device the landing page has not appeared differently since I first put the random order code in yesterday morning.

Sound like you are logged into your site on your desktop and not mobile and using page caching. If you are using page caching, you should exclude the directory page otherwise you’ll just serve the cached page until it expires.

re: Note, when I click the category drop down and click “show all categories” it gives me a different order, which appears to be the random order that I seek for my landing page.

You asked this yesterday, here’s my response. I would need to install Query Monitor on your site and view the queries in order to determine the issue. Like I mentioned in my previous reply, my guess is that seed for the randomization is different.

The strings for the select drop down would not affect this, that issue was only in regards to changing the label text. That update was released, so you should have it.

@ James

I logged in…

I selected a category to filter by and then selected the show all categories option. No matter how many times I switch to filtering by a category and then choosing show all or navigating to the page directly… the initial order and the order when selecting view all are the same, not different.

Am I misunderstanding how to replicate the issue? Maybe, can you give me the exact steps to reproduce the issue will help.

As for mobile, I visited the page and did the same category switching and that seems fine too.

After an hour I’ll visit again to make sure the randomization seed has changed to confirm randomization is working, or not.

So, far, it seems like it is working exactly how it should.

@ James

I just revisited the site using my phone again, and the entries were in a different order. My first view, Mark and Maria was the first two, now I see Josh and Michael as the first two. I’ll visit again, but on my mobile, they do seem to be randomizing as they should.

@ James

Now I see…

Like I originally said, you should exclude the page from your page cache. You’re running the Endurance Page Cache plugin. So…

When you navigate to the directory you see the cached page (when not logged in, ie. the mobile devices). This cached page will be served by the page cache plugin until it expires (which appears to be weekly [or daily, depends on precise which version of .1 is installed on your site).

When you select a category, the page is not being served from the cache, when you change the drop down to display all, you are seeing the uncached page.

This is why you are not seeing the page change and why you see different results when choosing the show all category option.

There does not appear to be any options for this cache plugin so I installed Code Snippets and added a filter which should tell Endurance Page Cache not to cache the directory page.

Hope that helps!

@ James

As explained in my last reply, this too was being caused by the page cache being served when landing directly on the page and the uncached page being server when you selected view all. If you visit now, the same random order is displayed both when directly navigating to the page and when selecting view all.

Hope that helps!