<p>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.</p>
<p>Benefits:</p>
<ul>
<li>Give visitors a fun way to browse your site.</li>
<li>Get more pages of your site indexed.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Questions, Comments and feature suggestions</strong></p>
<p>Please leave questions and comments on my <a href="http://financequestionsblog.com/random-pages-widget" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin page</a></p>
<p>If you like this plugin please give me a good rating!  I ask for no donations.  If you’d like to donate, donate to wordpress.org.</p>
<h3>Configuration</h3>
<ul>
<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>
</ul>


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.

Brian Layman

<p>This plugin allows the creation and display of custom sidebars for any page (or post) on your site. On each page, you can choose which of your current theme’s sidebars will be replaced. The replacement works for all descendants of a replaced page.</p>
<p>In this fashion you can:<br />
1. Easily create a CMS like site with unique sidebars for every page, even if your theme doesn’t support it.<br />
2. Create a sidebar with a Cart widget that displays on store pages created by the WP-E-Commerce page, but not anywhere else on the site.<br />
3. Use parent pages to create themed areas of your site, without creating custom page templates.</p>
<p>This plugin is compatible with every theme and all widgets because it hijacks your theme’s sidebars instead of replacing them.</p>
<h3>Use</h3>
<ol>
<li>Edit a page or create and save one. It must at least have a title.</li>
<li>In the ?Custom Sidebar? section, check ?Activate a custom sidebar? and select the sidebar to replace.</li>
<li>On the Appearance->Widgets screen, place the widgets on the newly created sidebar that matches your post. </li>
</ol>
<p>That?s it. No code. No CSS changes. No custom templates.</p>
<p>This video describes the usage of the plugin:<br />
     <span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_U2XfrU7nZQ?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>


Per Page Sidebars

The Per Page Sidebars (PPS) plugin allows blog administrators to create a unique sidebar for each Page. No template editing is required.

Random Pages Widget vs Per Page Sidebars