Steven Zahm@ 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.