Randomize post order on a category blog page

[sheilab]

Hi,
I am looking to randomize the order of posts presented on a category blog page. When I add an echo statement to the code below it appears on the page, but the $query is not working. This in on the old Venture theme. Any help would be appreciated.

//random posts on a category blog page

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'display_random_posts' );
function display_random_posts( $query ){

// check for page
if ( $query->is_page('466')) {

// set the order to random
$query->set( 'orderby', 'rand' );
}

}

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[Brad Dalton]

Please paste your code in a Github Gist and link to it or embed it here.

You would add a conditional tag after the function

pre_get_posts is the correct function to use

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