Eric Marden

A custom plugin that will display dynamic text from the values you enter in special custom fields on a post inside of a WordPress Widget.
Add any text you want as the value of the ‘posty’ custom field and it will show up in this widget. Title the widget with the ‘posty-title’ custom field. It only works on single posts.
<h3>License</h3>
The Posty Widget plugin was developed by Eric Marden, and is provided with out warranty under the GPLv2 License. More info and other plugins at: http://xentek.net
Copyright 2008 Eric Marden (email : wp@xentek.net)
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.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

Posty Widget

A custom plugin that will display dynamic text from the values you enter in special custom fields on a post inside of a WordPress Widget.

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:
<ul>
<li>Give visitors a fun way to browse your site.</li>
<li>Get more pages of your site indexed.</li>
</ul>
Questions, Comments and feature suggestions
Please leave questions and comments on my <a href="http://financequestionsblog.com/random-pages-widget" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin page</a>
If you like this plugin please give me a good rating! I ask for no donations. If you’d like to donate, donate to wordpress.org.
<h3>Configuration</h3>
<ul>
<li>Widget title: the title of the widget</li>
<li>Pages Or Posts: display random pages or random posts or both</li>
<li>List types: ul for bulleted list, p for paragraph, br for paragraph with line breaks</li>
<li>Page count: Number of random pages you would like to be displayed</li>
</ul>

Random Pages 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.

Posty Widget vs Random Pages Widget