Hi -

 

I have a list of hotels in the category listing, some of which are paid "Featured" hotels.  Though I have all Featured listings sorted to be first, some of those paid hotels are complaining that their listing is shown too low on the page.  Thus, I was thinking it would be nice to randomly sort these listings.

 

The non-featured hotels below the featured ones are sorted by city, then alphabetically, which is fine.

 

Is there a way to randomly sort only the Featured listings at the top, then have all remaining listings remain sorted as they are?

 

Thanks,

Neal

Ok, figured it out.

 

In \components\com_k2\models\itemlist.php, around line 249, change:

 

case 'rand':$orderby = 'RAND()';break;

to

case 'rand': $orderby = 'i.featured desc, case i.featured when 1 then RAND() else 1 end, i.title' break;