Random

Description

With Random plugin you can insert into your WordPress website one or more random contents coming from your posts.
The source contents can be pages, posts or custom post types.
You can display information in many different ways:
* A list of post titles
* One or more full contents or excerpts
* Raw URLs to posts permalink

Screenshots

  • Select how many post and with which types you want to show. Select also the post format.
  • For each post select the fields to show from title, content, excerpt or simple permalink.
  • Get the shortcode in one click; copy and paste it wherever you want in your webpage to show the random contents. Get also an instant demonstration of your shortcode result.

Installation

From your WordPress dashboard

  1. Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
  2. Search for ‘Random’
  3. Activate the plugin from your Plugins page.

From WordPress.org

  1. Download Random zip file
  2. Unzip it
  3. Upload the unzipped directory to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
  4. Activate the plugin from your Plugins page.

Reviews

September 20, 2024 1 reply
Random is almost exactly what I need. I can make it work by using page or post IDs but it’s pretty laborious. Load content by category or tag would be a really useful additional feature.
March 10, 2021
This plugin give to your website the possibility to get random content for specific posts types. You can use to give to your visitors random posts, or random woocommerce products for your clients. Very useful in my opinion.
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Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

“Random” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Changelog

1.3

  • Removed deprecated warnings for PHP >= 8.2
  • WordPress 6.6.2 compatibility
  • Imporoved escaping
  • Minor graphic changes

1.2

  • Add new parameter to include only some posts from random results (by IDs)
  • Setting inputs additional clean

1.1.1

  • WordPress 6.3.2 compatibility
  • Translation corrected

1.1

  • WordPress 6.3.1 compatibility
  • Add new parameter to exclude some posts from random results (by IDs)
  • URLs escaped
  • Corrected URLs for multisite installations

1.0.3

  • WordPress 5.8 compatibility
  • Restyling of about page

1.0.2

  • Correction in URL type shortcode

1.0.0

  • First plugin version