Title: Random Posts Widget
Author: Ady Romantika
Published: <strong>4. Mee 2007</strong>
Last modified: 30. Mee 2013

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Random Posts Widget

 By [Ady Romantika](https://profiles.wordpress.org/adywarna/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/random-posts-widget.2.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://ltz.wordpress.org/plugins/random-posts-widget/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://ltz.wordpress.org/plugins/random-posts-widget/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://ltz.wordpress.org/plugins/random-posts-widget/#installation)
 * [Development](https://ltz.wordpress.org/plugins/random-posts-widget/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/random-posts-widget/)

## Description

This simple plugin is a widget that displays a list of random posts on your widgetized
sidebar.

It supports multiple instances with WordPress 2.8 and above.

### Configuration

 * Widget title: the title of the widget
 * List types: ul for bulleted list, p for paragraph, br for paragraph with line
   breaks
 * Post count: Number of random posts you would like to be displayed
 * Category: Only this category will be selected as the source

## Installation

 1. Upload `randomposts.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/random-posts-widget` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Use your ‘Presentation’/’Sidebar Widgets’ settings to drag and configure

Or use the automatic update feature

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Random Posts Widget” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Ady Romantika ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/adywarna/)

[Translate “Random Posts Widget” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/random-posts-widget)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/random-posts-widget/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/random-posts-widget/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/random-posts-widget/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/random-posts-widget/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

 * 07-May-2007: Fixed a bug of displaying widget before and after tag
 * 14-Jun-2007: Fixed a bug where pages are also selected. Now it only displays 
   posts.
 * 26-Jun-2007: Removed before and after configuration options, now taken from theme
   settings
 * 03-Aug-2007: Overhauled entire engine to optimize queries. This has been tested
   on a test blog with 50,000 posts on an old machine (Pentium III 600MHz) in maximum
   3 seconds. Also removed duplicated results and added category to choose.
 * 04-Aug-2007: Fixed a bug where wrong permalink was displayed
 * 10-Aug-2007: Fixed a bug where if 1 post count is selected an error occured
 * 27-Sep-2007: Added ability to detect database version (WordPress 2.3 has database
   changed) while maintaining backward-compatibility with 2.2.x
 * 30-May-2013: Use WP_Widget to allow multiple instances since WordPress 2.8, while
   maintaining backwards-compatibility

## Meta

 *  Version **2.1**
 *  Last updated **13 Joren ago**
 *  Active installations **300+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.5.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/random-posts-widget/)
 * Tags
 * [posts](https://ltz.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)[random](https://ltz.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/random/)
   [Random Posts](https://ltz.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/random-posts/)[widget](https://ltz.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://ltz.wordpress.org/plugins/random-posts-widget/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Ady Romantika ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/adywarna/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/random-posts-widget/)

## Donate

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 [ Donate to this plugin ](http://www.romantika.name/v2/)