WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Idea: a widget displaying randomly selected posts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/idea-a-widget-displaying-randomly-selected-posts WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Idea: a widget displaying randomly selected posts en Fri, 24 May 2013 04:41:17 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 helar on "Idea: a widget displaying randomly selected posts" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/idea-a-widget-displaying-randomly-selected-posts#post-407272 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:19:35 +0000 helar 407272@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks to all of you! I tried the ?random switch attached to a picture and (after some minor challenges) IT WORKS! Happy, happy, happy... You are great!

]]> raincoaster on "Idea: a widget displaying randomly selected posts" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/idea-a-widget-displaying-randomly-selected-posts#post-407122 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:07:21 +0000 raincoaster 407122@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I used to have this as a clickable button like ismailimail has, and when I got rid of it I got complaints.

]]> babaliciou5 on "Idea: a widget displaying randomly selected posts" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/idea-a-widget-displaying-randomly-selected-posts#post-407116 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:25:28 +0000 babaliciou5 407116@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ iNove theme has this feature when there's no widget added -- default. Interesting thing is, it displays 5 random posts on homepage's sidebar while all we can manually do at best is to have a link - with or without image banner- (.../?random) to one random post of each click. I'm totally in tune with the OP, having multiple random posts displayed automatically on sidebar is a sound good idea.

]]> ismailimail on "Idea: a widget displaying randomly selected posts" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/idea-a-widget-displaying-randomly-selected-posts#post-407037 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:21:21 +0000 ismailimail 407037@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I use image widget to display random posts (it's a manual work though).

]]> izaakmak on "Idea: a widget displaying randomly selected posts" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/idea-a-widget-displaying-randomly-selected-posts#post-407034 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:48:45 +0000 izaakmak 407034@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You can call up a random post by adding the ?random switch to the end of your blog's url. I used this trick as part of "The QuickFix" text widget in my sidebar.

]]> thesacredpath on "Idea: a widget displaying randomly selected posts" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/idea-a-widget-displaying-randomly-selected-posts#post-407009 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:10:13 +0000 thesacredpath 407009@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I expect that if wordpress introduced this type of thing it would be truly random. In other words, we would not be able to control which show up and which do not.

My suggestion would be to simply make your own in this case using a text widget.

http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/text-widget-links/

]]> helar on "Idea: a widget displaying randomly selected posts" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/idea-a-widget-displaying-randomly-selected-posts#post-406996 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:48:47 +0000 helar 406996@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I would appreciate a new widget that would display several (say, up to 5) randomly selected posts from a blog. I have a number of topics on my blog that are "ageless" and it would help to keep discussions going.

Anyone else feeling the same need?

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