lupka

<p>This plugin allows you to create a widget that will display the title/date/excerpt from random posts in a specified(or open-ended) date range. It can also be used outside of a widget to create custom loops of random posts within a date range. The following can be specified:</p>
<ul>
<li>Number of posts to display</li>
<li>Whether or not to show dates</li>
<li>Whether or not to show excerpts</li>
<li>Excerpt length (number of words)</li>
<li>Start date and End date of posts to randomize</li>
<li>Whether or not to always use current date as end. (Allows you to include new posts without editing settings every day)</li>
<li>Option to use relative time instead (To chose from random posts from last week, year, etc.)</li>
<li>Category to choose posts from. (Example: Random posts from sports category in the past week. This is the original reason I needed a plugin like this. Comes in handy for the newspaper site I run.)</li>
</ul>
<p>Please contact me if you run into any issues, either via email (lupka31@gmail.com) or Twitter (http://twitter.com/lupka)<br />
For latest FAQs/info visit: http://alexchalupka.com/projects/wordpress/random-posts-widget/</p>


Random Posts Within Date Range Widget

Widget that displays the title(w/ link), date(optional), and excerpt(optional) of random posts within a selected date range.

Ady Romantika

<p>This simple plugin is a widget that displays a list of random posts on your widgetized sidebar.</p>
<p>It supports multiple instances with WordPress 2.8 and above.</p>
<h3>Configuration</h3>
<ul>
<li>Widget title: the title of the widget</li>
<li>List types: ul for bulleted list, p for paragraph, br for paragraph with line breaks</li>
<li>Post count: Number of random posts you would like to be displayed</li>
<li>Category: Only this category will be selected as the source</li>
</ul>


Random Posts Widget

This simple plugin is a widget that displays a list of random posts on your widgetized sidebar. It supports multiple instances with WordPress 2.

Random Posts Within Date Range Widget vs Random Posts Widget