<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.

Tim Hyde

<p>A set of useful widgets created for adding more fluid content to any theme. Especially designed for responsive themes. Also has a very useful shortcode for using some of the functionality inside a post or page. The plugin adds a set of new widgets, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Show Posts Widget – for showing posts excerpts, thumbs and post formats.</li>
<li>Show Pages Widget” – Shows thumbs/excerpts of child pages of defined parent page.</li>
<li>flickr Widget – Show flickr thumbs</li>
<li>Twitter Widget – show your latest tweets</li>
<li>Facebook Widget – show your facebook page feed without slowing your site down and in a responsive way!</li>
</ul>
<p>And also adds a powerful shortcode for using the show posts/pages functionality in a post or page.</p>
<p>e.g.</p>
<p>[los_showposts post_type=”posts” columns=”3″ content=”true” heading=”true” cat_id=”” num_posts=”3″ ]</p>
<h4>Shortcode Parameters</h4>
<ul>
<li>Attribute – Description   Values</li>
<li>post_type – Type of query “pages” or “posts”</li>
<li>cat_id – Category ID for posts    e.g. “23”</li>
<li>exclude_cats – post categories ids to exclude e.g. “23,170,9”</li>
<li>num_posts – Number of items to show   e.g. “5?</li>
<li>columns – Number of columns to layout “1”, “2”, “3” or “4”</li>
<li>heading – Show headings   “true” or “false”</li>
<li>author – Show author link “true” or “false”</li>
<li>tags – Show tags  “true” or “false”</li>
<li>categories – Show categories  “true” or “false”</li>
<li>thumbs – Show Post thumbnails “true” or “false”</li>
<li>dates – Show Post Dates   “true” or “false”</li>
<li>content – Show post/page excerpt  “true” or “false”</li>
<li>parent_id – When showing pages, show children of this parent page.    e.g. “34”</li>
<li>thumbsize – Image size to use use “widget” or “gallery”</li>
<li>entrytag – Heading tag for each item  e.g. “h3”</li>
<li>post_formats – Show post format icons “true” or “false”</li>
<li>post_class – CSS class string to use for each item    default is “los-custom-post”</li>
<li>show_sticky – Set to “1” to enable sticky posts function, “0” is deafult (i.e. sticky is ignored)</li>
</ul>
<h4>More Information</h4>
<p>For further information see <a href="http://themeloom.com/" title="The ThemeLoom" rel="nofollow ugc">ThemeLoom</a></p>
<h4>Thanks</h4>
<ul>
<li>to Andrew Kurtis for Spanish language files</li>
</ul>


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