<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

Team Startbit

<p>Vi Random Posts Widget plugin allows us to create a custom random or category posts list as a widget. It gives you a list of random posts via shortcode or widget with thumbnail, excerpt and post date, also you can display it from your custom post type or from a post category.</p>
<p>=Features=</p>
<pre><code>WordPress 5.2.1 Support.
Allow you to add a URL in widget title
Display thumbnails and customizable size.
Display excerpt of customizable length.
Display from all, specific or multiple category.
Display your post date with customomizable format.
Display your post author.
Display post comment counts
Display your custom Post types.    
User can add a custom css class in widget.
Add custom html or text before and/or after posts lists.
Display random post using shortcode '[virp/]'.
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<h4>Rate Us / Feedback</h4>
<p>Please take the time to let us and others know about your experiences by leaving a review, so that we can improve the plugin for you and other users.</p>
<h4>Want More?</h4>
<p>If You Want more functionality or some modifications, just drop us a line what you want and We will try to add or modify the plugin functions.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Thanks to Aqua Resizer. (http://aquagraphite.com)</li>
<li>Thanks to Font Awesome. (https://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/)</li>
</ul>


Vi Random Post Widget

Vi Random Posts Widget plugin allows us to create a custom random or category posts list as a widget. It gives you a list of random posts via shortcod …

Random One Cat Widget vs Vi Random Post Widget