themorshed

Random AND Popular Post plugin allows you to show Your Random posts and Popular Posts in your widgetized area.
You can display posts in widgetized area as much as you want. Also this is very lightweight plugin. It can’t complict with another plugin because this plugin is developd using OOP which is most secure way to develop a good plugin. So, You can install this plugin without any hasitation and enjoy with us.

Random AND Popular Post

This is a Lightweight WordPress plugin to Display Random posts, popular posts etc.

rjl20

Most people don’t need this plugin. Most wouldn’t notice a difference if they had it. All it does is change the default sort order of a WP_Query from posts.post_date to posts.post_date_gmt — that is, sort on the GMT timestamp of a post rather than the local time zone.
Who needs this? People who switch time zones frequently. People running a network installation of WordPress where they want to be able to aggregate posts from all their network blogs easily, and in the right order. I don’t know. I wrote it for FreeThoughtBlogs.com, so their “most recent posts” sidebar would stop showing only posts from a few blogs in early time zones. If it works for you, great.
I have every hope that this plugin will be made obsolete by the default sort order being changed in the WordPress core. I can think of no good reason why comments are sorted by GMT but posts by local time.
For all I know, this plugin works with older versions than 3.0. I’ve only tested it with 3.2.1.

Posts by GMT

Changes the default sort order for posts from post_date to post_date_gmt.

Random AND Popular Post vs Posts by GMT