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>)
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Random Posts from Category

A widget that lists random posts from a chosen category.

qiqiboy

Show your random posts on sidebar and provide ajax refresh function. 
How to use this plug-in? It’s easy and you have two ways: 
1.Go to widgets page to add the widget to your sidebar. 
2.use the function <code><?php WP_Ajax_Random_Posts('number=8&cmtcount=1&excerpt=1&length=100&auto=0&time=60'); ?></code> to custom the posts display position. 
This function accepts six parameters: 
 number: how many posts display. Type: Integer, default 8 
 cmtcount: display comments count of the post. Type: Boolean, default 0. 1: yes, 0: no 
 excerpt: display excerpt of no. Type: Boolean, default 0. 1: yes, 0: no 
 length: the length of the excerpt. Type: Integer, default 100 
 auto: auto refresh random psots list or not. Type: Boolean, default 0. 1: yes, 0: no 
 time: the auto refresh interval(seconds). Type: Integer, default 60 
显示一组支持ajax自动刷新的随机文章列表。 
如何使用插件呢？很简单，有两种方法： 
1.到小工具页面去添加小工具。 
2.使用自定义调用函数<code><?php WP_Ajax_Random_Posts('number=8&cmtcount=1&excerpt=1&length=100&auto=0&time=60'); ?></code>

WP Ajax Random Posts

Show your Random posts on sidebar and provide ajax auto refresh function.

Random Posts from Category vs WP Ajax Random Posts