This is a widget that displays a list of random pages/posts on your widgetized sidebar. The widget displays random posts and pages in sidebar. This increases the number of indexed pages and gives users an interesting way to browse your site.
Benefits:
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<li>Give visitors a fun way to browse your site.</li>
<li>Get more pages of your site indexed.</li>
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Questions, Comments and feature suggestions
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<h3>Configuration</h3>
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<li>Widget title: the title of the widget</li>
<li>Pages Or Posts: display random pages or random posts or both</li>
<li>List types: ul for bulleted list, p for paragraph, br for paragraph with line breaks</li>
<li>Page count: Number of random pages you would like to be displayed</li>
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Random Pages Widget

Displays random posts and pages in sidebar. This increases the number of indexed pages and gives users an interesting way to browse your site.

Diana K. Cury

List post from a specific category with options like date format, link text, order and more. Locus is a very simple plugin for display content in diferrent ways:
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<li>Display a single post, page or any available post type.</li>
<li>Display full content or the excerpt, or both!</li>
<li>Category descriptions are visible by default, if any.</li>
<li>Configure date format, link text or hide them all.</li>
<li>Use styles for every block, (refer the stylesheet in <code>locus/control/locus-style.css</code>)</li>
<li>Set display post orders, such random, by date, by author, comment count (popularity) etc</li>
<li>Display thumbnails, if available</li>
<li>Easy to use: you don’t have to learn to use it</li>
<li>Settings per widget, so you can have different widgets.</li>
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Locus

Locus allows you display any post, page or post type in widgetized areas of you site.

Random Pages Widget vs Locus