Random articles
If you would like to display random articles from your article list or section use function rand() as a order parameter in {init_articles).
Example:
In this sample one random news article is picked from the section with ID 1075. Parameter parent defines the section from where to get the articles, order="rand()" picks out random article, limit=1 allows to display only one article from this list.
<!--news component-->
{init_articles name=news parent=1075 order="rand()" limit="1"}
{init_article name=art id=$news.0->id}
<a href="{$art->href}" class="newsl">{$art->lead|truncate:80}</a>
<!--// news component-->
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