Scott Reilly

This plugin provides template tags that allow you to retrieve the name, path (relative or absolute), url, or fully marked-up link to a randomly chosen file or files in a specified directory.
Arguments to the functions permit you to limit what file(s) can be randomly selected based on a given set of file extensions. You can also explicitly specify files that should not be randomly selected.
This functionality can be useful for displaying random images/logos or including text from random files onto your site (writing excerpts, multi-line quotes, etc). Other ideas: random ads, random CSS files, random theme template selection.
Notes:
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If you want to actually display the name of the random file, be sure to ‘echo’ the results:

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Unless you limit the file search to only include a particular extension (via <code>$extensions</code> argument), all files in the specified <code>$dir</code> will be under consideration for random selection
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Can be run inside or outside of “the loop”
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Links: <a href="https://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/random-file/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Homepage</a> | <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/random-file/" rel="ugc">Plugin Directory Page</a> | <a href="https://github.com/coffee2code/random-file/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a> | <a href="https://coffee2code.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Author Homepage</a>
<h3>Developer Documentation</h3>
Developer documentation can be found in <a href="https://github.com/coffee2code/random-file/blob/master/DEVELOPER-DOCS.md" rel="nofollow ugc">DEVELOPER-DOCS.md</a>. That documentation covers the template tags and hooks provided by the plugin.
As an overview, these are the template tags provided by the plugin:
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<li><code>c2c_random_file()</code> : Retrieves the name of a random file from a specified directory and returns information based on the file.</li>
<li><code>c2c_random_files()</code> : Retrieves the name, path, or link to a specified number of randomly chosen files in a specified directory.</li>
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These are the hooks provided by the plugin:
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<li><code>c2c_random_file</code> : Filter to safely invoke <code>c2c_random_file()</code> in such a way that if the plugin were deactivated or deleted, then your calls to the function won’t cause errors in your site.</li>
<li><code>c2c_random_files</code> : Filter to safely invoke <code>c2c_random_files()</code> in such a way that if the plugin were deactivated or deleted, then your calls to the function won’t cause errors in your site.</li>
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Random File

Retrieve the name, path, or link to a randomly chosen file or files in a specified directory.

vpiwigo

Norbert

On the one hand, PiwigoPress is a WordPress Sidebar Widget that links 
your blog to some public pictures of a Piwigo gallery. Thus, a Piwigo 
gallery with several public pictures in it is a prerequisite to make it 
working. But even if you don’t have one yet, you can nonetheless give this 
plugin a try by using the Official Piwigo <a href="http://piwigo.org/demo/" title="The demonstration gallery" rel="nofollow ugc">demonstration gallery</a> before 
setting up your own gallery.
PiwigoPress generates several highly valuable links in sidebars of your 
WordPress blog, all of them being optional: a thumbnail linking to 
the corresponding picture page, menus directing to all albums defined 
as public in the gallery, several additional links to most recent, most 
viewed, most commented pictures, and more.
On the other hand, by using a shortcode [PiwigoPress …] you can add 
any public picture of a Piwigo gallery. Here again you should try even 
though you don’t have yet your Piwigo Gallery. Have a look with 
[PiwigoPress id=72 url=’http://piwigo.org/demo’] in a post or page.
Above all, PiwigoPress provides a shortcode generator. Each time you 
add some pictures to your gallery you will be able to add a post related 
to your last uploaded photos. So, your friends and family are going to 
like your photos and Search Engines are going reference your gallery with 
the refbacks provided by PiwigoPress.
When you’ve finished testing and want to create you own gallery, go to the 
Piwigo <a href="http://piwigo.org/basics/downloads" title="Piwigo download page" rel="nofollow ugc">download page</a>, where you’ll find all the links you might need.
Try “NetInstall” first. If it fails, switch to the “Package” download and 
follow the full installation procedure. When ready, if you are a bit lost, 
just try Photos add page sheets (Web form, Applications, FTP + Synchronization) 
in your Piwigo gallery administration page.
Development of PiwigoPress is open to contributions, please use the 
<a href="https://github.com/norbusan/piwigopress" rel="nofollow ugc">github page</a> for patches, bug reports, and issues.
<h3>Copyright/License</h3>
PiwigoPress WordPress Plugin
Copyright 2009-2012 VDigital 
 Copyright 2014-2024 Norbert Preining
Contributions by
Rüdiger Schulz 2015 (copyright transfered) 
 Anton Lavrov 2015
Anton Lavrov’s contribution are under GPLv2+: 
 On Wed, 15 Jul 2015, Anton Lavrov wrote:
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Hi Norbert,
I hereby confirm that my contributions are under GPLv2 or higher.
Please let me know if this is not exactly the wording you need.
</blockquote>
PiwigoPress is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2+
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, see if not, write to the Free Software 
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

PiwigoPress

From any open API Piwigo gallery, swiftly include your photos in Posts/Pages and/or add randomized thumbnails and menus in your sidebar.

Random File vs PiwigoPress