<p>There are times when you’d like to have a certain type of post appear in a widget for use in your sidebar or (in some themes) your header or footer.</p>
<p>I used this to display a random senryu on each page, but it will work equally well for any group of reasonably small posts.</p>
<p>There is the option to include the title of the post, the title of the widget, both titles, or neither.</p>
<p>If you want you can add a bunch of widgets, each showing up to five random posts from a different category.</p>


Random One Cat Widget

This Widget shows up to five random posts from a given category

Shashi Dhar Kumar

<p>This simple plugin is a widget that displays a list of random posts on your sidebar. You can exclude certain posts by ID.</p>
<h3>Bug Fix</h3>
<p>Small bug has been noticed by one of user into post status has been fixed now.</p>
<h3>Configuration</h3>
<ol>
<li>Widget Title: the title of the widget</li>
<li>No of Post: Number of random posts you would like to be display</li>
</ol>


Random Post for Widget

This simple plugin is a widget that displays a list of random posts on your sidebar. You can exclude certain posts by ID.

Random One Cat Widget vs Random Post for Widget