Another gallery question

Question

I have looked around but cant find an answer to this.

I have a structure for my gallery page, in-which there are three separate entries called A, B and C.

There are different images within these entries. But how would I go about showing all the images within these entries in a random order?

Say I went to the gallery page and they all showed up randomly, then theres a sub navigation to the separate entries on there own?

It's probably a simple solution but templating it has me really confused. Thank you

Answer 1

You can set an array and order them by random.

{% set gallery = craft.entries.section(['galleryA','galleryB','galleryC']) %}

Then you have to display them by random using .order('RAND()')

So your for loop looks like:

{% for entry in craft.entries.section(gallery).order('RAND()') %}

Answer 2

Rather than having separate entries, have you considered having one type of image but assigning categories or tags to them.

That way you could output your images in a random order using .order('RAND()') on the end of your for loop. Something like this:

{% for entry in craft.entries.section('yourImageEntries').order('RAND()') %}

Then if you want to output your images by specific category you can do it like this:

{# Fetch all of the entries related to this category #}
{% set entries = craft.entries.relatedTo(category) %}

{# Output them #}
{% for entry in entries %}
    <a href="{{ entry.url }}">{{ entry.title }}</a>
{% endfor %}

Example taken from the official docs here.