This was based initially on the Flickr Badge Widget, but it is a lot 
more basic, and uses a <a href="http://www.plogger.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plogger</a> library feed 
for its source.
I wrote it because Flickr started wanting to charge me for hosting photos. I pay a few bucks a month on web hosting, and didn’t see the point in 
also paying Flickr, given that uploading via SCP is no harder than using 
jUploadr or whatever. I installed Plogger, which seems to be a 
decent bare-bones replacement.
However, the one thing I missed about Flickr was the nice WordPress 
widget that showed my photos in the sidebar of my blog. So, I scratched 
my own itch and wrote this widget. Presto – thumbnail images in the 
sidebar.
You just assign it a Plogger feed URL and it does its thing. (The GPL 
PHP RSS library lastRSS is included – which makes this widget GPL too.)
It is still very basic and needs some developer TLC to give it the 
features that Plogger deserves. Hit me up if you can help – I don’t have 
much free time, so improvements will be slow if it’s just me on my 
own.

Plogger Badge Widget

A simple widget that displays images from a Plogger feed in the sidebar.

Matt Rude

The Random Image Block is a small plugin that will display a random image from your native WordPress photo galley or in-beaded images.
This widget will display the thumbnail of the random image, the “caption” and the images parent posts name. You may show all pictures on your site, or limit the selection to a single category if you wish. Once installed on your site, it will fully conform to the current theme. The Widgets title is also fully configurable. Random Image Widget was designed with full internationalization in mind and can be fully translated (Any help on this would be appreciated). As of Version 0.3 this plugin works out of the box without any configuraion (assuming you have pictures on your site).
The Random Image Block plugin works with WordPress 3.0+ in both single and multi site modes. As a Site Admin, you may activate this plugin across all the sites on your install.
This Plugin is fully translated into the following languages:
<ul>
<li>Arabic</li>
<li>Czech</li>
<li>Finnish</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>Danish</li>
<li>Dutch</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>Indonesian</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Portuguese</li>
<li>Russian</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
</ul>
If you would like to help translating this plugin, or you see a problem with the current translation, please see my <a href="http://translate.mattrude.com/projects/random-image-block" rel="nofollow ugc">Translation</a> page, and/or <a href="http://mattrude.com/contact-me/" rel="nofollow ugc">contact me</a>.

Random Image Block

A small plugin that will display a random image from your native WordPress photo galley or in-beaded images.

Plogger Badge Widget vs Random Image Block