Ajit Kumar Satpathy

<p>These must be in function.php in the theme for the plugin to work for thumbnail and excerpt:</p>
<p>add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ );</p>
<p>set_post_thumbnail_size( form_option(‘thumbnail_size_w&&echo=false’), form_option(‘thumbnail_size_h&&echo=false’), true );</p>
<p>function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {<br />
    return 20;<br />
}<br />
add_filter( ‘excerpt_length’, ‘custom_excerpt_length’, 999 );<br />
function custom_excerpt_more( $more ) {<br />
    return ”;<br />
}<br />
add_filter( ‘excerpt_more’, ‘custom_excerpt_more’ );</p>
<p>You’ll also need to add thumbnails to the posts you want visible in the list.</p>
<p>After that, all you need to do is to add the hook [getcatlist 1] (where 1 is a categoy id) to your post.</p>


Category Thumbnail Excerpt

Lists a category with thumbnails,title,excerpt with a read more link

Ga Satrya

Idenovasi

<h4>Notice</h4>
<p>This plugin is no longer supported, please use <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-widget-extended/" rel="ugc">Recent posts widget Extended</a> instead.</p>
<p>This plugin will enable a custom, flexible and advanced random posts. It allows you to display a list of random posts via shortcode or widget with thumbnail, excerpt and post date, also you can display it from all or specific or multiple taxonomy.</p>
<h4>Features Include</h4>
<ul>
<li>Allow you to set title url.</li>
<li>Display thumbnails, with customizable size and alignment.</li>
<li>Display excerpt, with customizable length.</li>
<li>Display from all, specific or multiple category.</li>
<li>Display from all, specific or multiple tag.</li>
<li>Display from all, specific or multiple taxonomy.</li>
<li>Display post date.</li>
<li>Display post modified date.</li>
<li>Post types.</li>
<li>Post status.</li>
<li>Allow you to set custom css class per widget.</li>
<li>Add custom html or text before and/or after random posts.</li>
<li>Multiple widgets.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Support Me</h4>
<ul>
<li>Purchase or download my <a href="https://wp.idenovasi.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress themes</a>.</li>
<li>Purchase my <a href="https://www.fiverr.com/idenovasi" rel="nofollow ugc">Services</a>.</li>
<li>Try another <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/idenovasi/#content-plugins" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress plugin</a> from me.</li>
<li>Contribute on <a href="https://github.com/idenovasi/advanced-random-posts-widget" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Shorcode Explanation</h3>
<p>Explanation of shortcode options:</p>
<p>Basic shortcode</p>
<pre><code>[arpw]
</code></pre>
<p>Display 10 random posts</p>
<pre><code>[arpw limit="10"]
</code></pre>
<p>Display with thumbnail and set the size</p>
<pre><code>[arpw thumbnail="true" thumbnail_size="arpw-thumbnail"]
</code></pre>
<p>Display posts based on category by id</p>
<pre><code>[arpw thumbnail="true" cat="10"]
</code></pre>
<p>Display portfolio post type</p>
<pre><code>[arpw post_type="portfolio"]
</code></pre>
<p><strong>Here’s the full default shortcode arguments</strong></p>
<pre><code>title=""
offset=""
limit="5"
post_type="post"
post_status="publish"
ignore_sticky="1"
taxonomy=""
cat=""
tag=""
thumbnail="false"
thumbnail_size="arpw-thumbnail"
thumbnail_align="left"
excerpt="false"
excerpt_length="10"
date="false"
date_modified="false"
date_relative="false"
css_class=""
before=""
after=""
</code></pre>


Advanced Random Posts Widget

Provides flexible and advanced random posts. Display it via shortcode or widget with thumbnails, post excerpt, and much more!

Category Thumbnail Excerpt vs Advanced Random Posts Widget