Stephanie Leary

This widget will list random posts from a chosen category. You can choose how many posts to display, and whether to show the excerpt or the full content in addition to the post title. You may also link the widget title to the category archive if you like.
<h3>Translations</h3>
Belorussian (be_BY) by <a href="http://fatcow.com" rel="nofollow ugc">FatCow</a>. 
Romanian (ro_RO) by Web Geek Science (<a href="http://webhostinggeeks.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Web 
Hosting Geeks</a>)
If you would like to send me a translation, please write to me through <a href="http://sillybean.net/about/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">my contact page</a>. Let me know which plugin you’ve translated and how you would like to be credited. I will write you back so you can attach the files in your reply.

Random Posts from Category

A widget that lists random posts from a chosen category.

Brendon Boshell

Stumble! for WordPress extends WordPress to support a “random article” feature, similar to <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumblethru.php" rel="nofollow ugc">StumbleUpon’s StumbleThru</a> and Wikipedia’s (Mediawiki’s) random article feature.
It has shown that it can significantly increase pageviews on a blog.
The plugin supports basic “go to any random page” functionality, but can also integrate with <a href="http://mitcho.com/code/yarpp/" rel="nofollow ugc">Yet Another Related Posts Plugin</a> to stumble similar articles. Stumble! for WordPress will automatically (optional) give priority to articles with more comments, so users will be brought to your most popular posts.
Since version 0.2, the plugin also shows statistics to show total number of stumbles, and hits to individual articles as a result of Stumble! for WordPress.
New for version 1.0: You can now enter the Stumble! for WordPress network (from the options panel) which will send your traffic from stumbles from other blogs! (and visa-versa)

Stumble! for WordPress

Stumble! for WordPress extends WordPress to support a "random article" feature, similar to StumbleUpon's StumbleThru.

Random Posts from Category vs Stumble! for WordPress