The Random Featured Post plugin allows you to display a random post from a designated category. Ideally this should 
draw readers landing on your homepage to some of your best posts. The featured post will display the title 
“Featured Post” (customizable) along with the post’s title, an excerpt and a link to continue to the full post.
<h3>Additional Notes</h3>
<ul>
<li>The show_featured_post($PreFeature = ”, $PostFeature = ”, $AlwaysShow = false, $categoryID = 0, $NumberOfPosts = 0) function has five optional arguments. 
The first two are for any HTML you would like to display before and after the featured post. The third argument is a 
boolean (true/false) argument which will override the \’Show Featured Post\’ option and always display the featured post when true. The fourth option allows you to 
specify a single category to display from, overriding the selections in settings page. The fifth option allows you to show more than one post at a time, overriding 
the settings page option.</li>
<li>All output is contained in a DIV class named “featuredpost” and can be adjusted via your stylesheet.</li>
</ul>

Random Featured Post

The Random Featured Post plugin allows you to display a random post from a designated category as a "featured" post.

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This plugin is based on “WP Favorite Posts”,and extends json api to provide access for mobile apps. 
Three methods are provided: 
wpfp/add 
 postid: required 
 cookie: optional 
wpfp/remove 
 postid：required 
 cookie：optional 
wpfp/lists 
 cookie ：optional 
The cookie param is the same as “JSON API USER” plugin used.
These methods support users not logged,if the client side can receive and send cookies.
code can be found at: https://github.com/avrilmaomao/wp-favorite-posts-extended

WP Favorite Posts Extended

wp-favorite-posts, reading list, post list, post lists, lists Requires at least: 3.5 Tested up to: 4.0 Stable tag: 0.1 Based on plugin "WP Favor …

Random Featured Post vs WP Favorite Posts Extended