Hello,
I want to call a random page as front page. How can I achieve this? 
You can set the home option in your config inside the ready callback:+
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Let us say I want to shuffle all projects shown on a website. A project page is a subpage of the projects page.
return [
'home' => page('projects')->children()->shuffle()
];As I said, you need to do this within the ready callback, you cannot use the page helper directly with the home option.
Like this?
<?php
return [
'ready' => function() {
return [
'home' => page('projects')->children()->shuffle()
];
}
];
You need to get a single page, though:
page('projects')->children()->shuffle()->first()
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Thanks, I will try it.
Dear @pixelijn,
I get an empty page. My config.php so far:
<?php
return [
'routes' => [
[
'pattern' => 'sitemap.xml',
'action' => function() {
$pages = site()->pages()->index();
// fetch the pages to ignore from the config settings,
// if nothing is set, we ignore the error page
$ignore = kirby()->option('sitemap.ignore', ['error']);
$content = snippet('sitemap', compact('pages', 'ignore'), true);
// return response with correct header type
return new Kirby\Cms\Response($content, 'application/xml');
}
],
[
'pattern' => 'sitemap',
'action' => function() {
return go('sitemap.xml', 301);
}
]
],
[
'debug' => true,
'languages' => true
],
[
'ready' => function() {
return [
'home' => page('home/works')->children()->shuffle())->first()
];
}
]
];
Did I miss anything? I also tried:
'home' => $page->hasTemplate('work')->shuffle())->first()
and got the same empty page.
Your syntax is not correct debug, languages and ready must be on the same level as routes, not inside their own arrays:
<?php
return [
'routes' => [
[
'pattern' => 'sitemap.xml',
'action' => function() {
$pages = site()->pages()->index();
// fetch the pages to ignore from the config settings,
// if nothing is set, we ignore the error page
$ignore = kirby()->option('sitemap.ignore', ['error']);
$content = snippet('sitemap', compact('pages', 'ignore'), true);
// return response with correct header type
return new Kirby\Cms\Response($content, 'application/xml');
}
],
[
'pattern' => 'sitemap',
'action' => function() {
return go('sitemap.xml', 301);
}
]
],
'debug' => true,
'languages' => true
'ready' => function() {
return [
'home' => page('home/works')->children()->shuffle())->first()
];
}
];
On a side note, be careful with 301 redirects.
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This works:
<?php
return [
'routes' => [
[
'pattern' => 'sitemap.xml',
'action' => function() {
$pages = site()->pages()->index();
// fetch the pages to ignore from the config settings,
// if nothing is set, we ignore the error page
$ignore = kirby()->option('sitemap.ignore', ['error', 'home/works', 'home/info/about', 'home/info/contact', 'home/info/privacy']);
$content = snippet('sitemap', compact('pages', 'ignore'), true);
// return response with correct header type
return new Kirby\Cms\Response($content, 'application/xml');
}
],
[
'pattern' => 'sitemap',
'action' => function() {
return go('sitemap.xml', 301);
}
]
],
'debug' => true,
'languages' => true
];
But as soon as I add ready, I get an empty page:
<?php
return [
'routes' => [
[
'pattern' => 'sitemap.xml',
'action' => function() {
$pages = site()->pages()->index();
// fetch the pages to ignore from the config settings,
// if nothing is set, we ignore the error page
$ignore = kirby()->option('sitemap.ignore', ['error', 'home/works', 'home/info/about', 'home/info/contact', 'home/info/privacy']);
$content = snippet('sitemap', compact('pages', 'ignore'), true);
// return response with correct header type
return new Kirby\Cms\Response($content, 'application/xml');
}
],
[
'pattern' => 'sitemap',
'action' => function() {
return go('sitemap.xml', 301);
}
]
],
'debug' => true,
'languages' => true,
'ready' => function() {
return [
'home' => page('home/works')->children()->shuffle())->first()
];
}
];
I got the sitemap routes from here. Why should I be careful with 301 redirects? Should I delete action?
'action' => function() { return go('sitemap.xml', 301); }
301 redirects are called permanent redirect, because they are cached in browsers. So a 302 redirect is usually the better choice unless you are sure never to need the redirected URL anymore.
There is an extra parenthesis after shuffle that you have to remove
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Thank you very much! Now, it’s works perfectly.
Besides this, I doubt having a random home page is a good idea. It’ll probably confuse the heck out of search engines.
Dear @texnixe,
there’s a bug!
For a specific content called work, I have a random frontpage (random work instead of home), an automatically generated index (of all work pages) and a previous/next navigation (for work pages). Somehow, one work link randomly disappears/changes to home as soon as I add the random frontpage script. See the screenshots:
Link to home/works/alphabet-forest exists.
Link to home/works/self-portrait misses.
<?php
return [
'routes' => [
[
'pattern' => 'sitemap.xml',
'action' => function() {
$pages = site()->pages()->index();
$ignore = kirby()->option('sitemap.ignore', ['error', 'home/works', 'home/info/about', 'home/info/contact', 'home/info/privacy']);
$content = snippet('sitemap', compact('pages', 'ignore'), true);
return new Kirby\Cms\Response($content, 'application/xml');
}
],
[
'pattern' => 'sitemap',
'action' => function() {
return go('sitemap.xml', 302);
}
]
],
'debug' => true,
'languages' => true,
'ready' => function() {
return [
'home' => page('home/works')->children()->shuffle()->first()
];
}
];
The random frontpage script part of config.
<?php if (page('home/works')->hasListedChildren()): ?>
<ul>
<?php foreach (page('home/works')->children()->listed() as $item): ?>
<li><a href="<?= $item->url() ?>"><i><?= $item->title() ?></i></a></li>
<?php endforeach ?>
</ul>
<?php endif ?>
The previous/next navigation script part of work pages.
<ul>
<?php if ($page->hasPrevListed()): ?>
<li><a href="<?= $page->prevListed()->url() ?>">←</a></li>
<?php else: ?>
<li><span>←</span></li>
<?php endif ?>
<?php if ($page->hasNextListed()): ?>
<li><a href="<?= $page->nextListed()->url() ?>">→</a></li>
<?php else: ?>
<li><span>→</span></li>
<?php endif ?>
</ul>
The index script part of home.
The random frontpage script removes the link of the randomly chosen work. Is there a way to prevent this? It messes up the site navigation (index and previous/next).
Maybe it would make sense to not set a random homepage, but to return a given page when the home page is called.
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I see.
The new config calls works now:
<?php
return [
'routes' => [
[
'pattern' => 'sitemap.xml',
'action' => function() {
$pages = site()->pages()->index();
$ignore = kirby()->option('sitemap.ignore', ['error', 'home/works', 'home/info/about', 'home/info/contact', 'home/info/privacy']);
$content = snippet('sitemap', compact('pages', 'ignore'), true);
return new Kirby\Cms\Response($content, 'application/xml');
}
],
[
'pattern' => 'sitemap',
'action' => function() {
return go('sitemap.xml', 302);
}
]
],
'debug' => true,
'languages' => true,
'ready' => function() {
return [
'home' => page('home/works')
];
}
];
Works calls a random work subpage but only its path:
<?= $page->children()->shuffle()->first() ?>
home/works/walden-or-life-in-the-woods
How do I call the page itself?
That’s not really what I meant. I meant instead of setting a different home page, use a route that listens to / and return a random page.
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Sorry but I don’t get it. 
Remove the ready stuff completely. Instead under routes
[
'pattern' => '/',
'action' => function() {
return page('home/works')->children()->listed()->shuffle()->first();
}
]
This approach requires that you still have a home folder.
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Now, the bug is gone. Thank you! 