A good way to keep visitors on your website and reduce bounce rate is to use a “random post” button. This button can be used anywhere on your website (you can see ours in the sidebar), and when clicked it will take the visitor to a completely random post.
This is actually very easy to achieve, you simply add the following code into your theme’s function.php file:
add_action('init','random_post'); function random_post() { global $wp; $wp->add_query_var('random'); add_rewrite_rule('random/?$', 'index.php?random=1', 'top'); } add_action('template_redirect','random_template'); function random_template() { if (get_query_var('random') == 1) { $posts = get_posts('post_type=post&orderby=rand&numberposts=1'); foreach($posts as $post) { $link = get_permalink($post); } wp_redirect($link,307); exit; } }
The create a link and put it in the desired location of your website. The link should look something like the following…
<a href="/?random=1">Random Post</a>