Don't let site visitors see the same related items. If they do, they might start ignoring that area of your site. This quick & easy hack will randomize the results of your related items.

Note: use caution if your website is extremely large, as this may slow down the rendering of your item pages.

File: components/com_k2/models/itemlist.php

Find the following code...

Replace ORDER BY i.created DESC"; >>> with >>> ORDER BY RAND()";
resulting in the following code:

$query .= " AND c.trash = 0
AND (i.id) IN ({$sql})
ORDER BY RAND()";

Special thanks to www.joomreem.com (@JoomReem) for helping with this hack

This is nice Joe.
If you set a limit to the items, then you won't have any issues.

Thanks for the compliment.

Please provide the code for setting the limit.

@Joseph

The query has already a limit applied ( the number of related items you want to show ) .

It's the random ( RAND() function ) implementation of MySQL that takes that much time since it needs to parse all entries in the table.