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This plugin retrieves one or more random post/page or both of them from your WordPress installation 
 Arguments: 
 from (string) 
 – show only posts, or pages, or both 
 – possible values: post | page 
 numberposts (integer) 
 – number of posts/pages to return 
 categories (integers, separated by commas) 
 – limits returned posts to posts filed under categories found in arguments 
 exclude (integers, separated by commas) 
 – limits returned posts to posts NOT filed under categories found in arguments
<pre><code>Sample Code:
 <?php
 $myposts = contentmixx( 'from=post&numberposts=2&categories=8' );
 foreach( $myposts as $post ) {
 setup_postdata( $post ); 
 ?>
 <div class="sideBarPost">
 <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title() ?></a></h3>
 <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
 <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">Read More...</a>
 </div>
 <?php
 }
 ?>


 <?php
 $results = contentmixx('numberposts=3');
 foreach($results as $post) :
 setup_postdata($post);
 ?>
 <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
 <?php the_content(); ?>
 <?php endforeach; ?>
</code></pre>
Please submit any bugs or suggested improvements to <a href="https://github.com/bmsterling/Content-Mixx/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/bmsterling/Content-Mixx/issues</a>
Need this plugin customized or need a plugin created, contact me via my contact form at <a href="http://kenzomedia.com" rel="nofollow ugc">http://kenzomedia.com</a>
Also available through twitter, @bmsterling
<h3>Credits</h3>
Copyright 2007 Benjamin Sterling (http://benjaminsterling.com)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or 
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
See the GNU General Public License for more details: 
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

Content Mixx

This plugin retrieves one or more random post/page or both of them from your WordPress installation

Dheeraj Tech Solutions

Puneet Sachdeva

Ravinder Singh

Gajinder Singh Negi

The plugin will use for show random page/post with widget or shortcode. you can configure following things for this plugin:
<ol>
<li>Set limit for page/post to show</li>
<li>Exclude the pages/posts by id.</li>
<li>Choose the content type from post or page</li>
</ol>
How to use the plugin?:
<ol>
<li>You can use widget from Dashboard>Apparence>Widgets. you need to put ‘dTech Random Page’ widget inside the sidebar</li>
<li>you also use shortcode [dtech_random_page]. 
here are the parameter:</li>
</ol>
a. title (optional) 
b. ids (optional) : The ids of Page/Post with (,) separate for excluding from the random pages 
c. limit (optional) : You need to set limit for pages. 0 is equal to all. 
e. type(optional) : You need to choose from page, post
Expamle :
[dtech_random_page ids=”12,15″ type=”page” limit=”5″ ]

dTech Random Page

The plugin will use for show random page/post with widget or shortcode.

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