Randomize Featured Products Listing

[kavlito]

I use the Featured Products listing on my homepage. However, the display order is static and I prefer it to be random.

This can be easily accomplished by adding one line to this file: /storefront/view/*mytemplate*/template/blocks/product_list.tpl

Insert: shuffle($products);
between: $icount = 0;
and: foreach ($products as $product) {

See attachment.

Enjoy!

(one caveat: this does not work with HTML Cache enabled - Update 5/26/20 - this statement is moot as of v1.2.16 as HTML Cache has been deprecated)