Random Pages Widget

Random Pages For Wordpress

This is a widget that displays a list of random pages/posts on your widgetized sidebar. The widget displays random posts and pages in sidebar. This increases the number of indexed pages and gives users an interesting way to browse your site.

Benefits:

  • Give visitors a fun way to browse your site.
  • Get more pages of your site indexed.

Questions, Comments and feature suggestions

Please leave questions and comments below

Download
Installation

  • Upload folder into to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
  • Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  • Use your ‘Presentation’/'Sidebar Widgets’ settings to drag and configure

Configuration

  • Widget title: the title of the widget
  • Pages Or Posts: display random pages or random posts or both
  • List types: ul for bulleted list, p for paragraph, br for paragraph with line breaks
  • Page count: Number of random pages you would like to be displayed

Frequently Asked Questions

Why does this include jquery?

  • Newer versions of wordpress include jquery automatically. I am including it here to support old versions.

What is with the question mark?

  • There is a very small question mark included in the clock that leads you to the information page for this widget. This is to spread the word about my widget to other people who be interested in installing it. You can remove this if you like, but I would really appreciate some other form of attribution (blog post, blogroll link, or whatever)

Change Log

1.00

  • initial release

1.01

  • revamped

Known Issues:

  • version 2.8.2 & 2.8.5 of wordpress + firefox make it hard to setup this widget from the admin panel – upgrade wordpress OR try another browser.  All other browser should work, and you can still set it properly, it is just hard to select the drop down values.

Any comments suggestions or bugs please add below

{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }

Christian November 23, 2009 at 10:04 am

whats about a function without widget? i want to place it on my page

admin December 7, 2009 at 1:51 am

I will add that to the wish-list for future versions

nash December 14, 2009 at 3:40 pm

How can i control the length of title?

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