lupka

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:
<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>
Please contact me if you run into any issues, either via email (lupka31@gmail.com) or Twitter (http://twitter.com/lupka) 
For latest FAQs/info visit: http://alexchalupka.com/projects/wordpress/random-posts-widget/

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.

Paolo T. (pixline)

swergroup

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Filenames on the web are different than those on the desktop. Empty spaces and strange characters doesn’t belong to web space. Enter UploadPlus: you can set your rules and clean your files’ name while they upload. Three basic rules:
<ul>
<li>keep only alphanumeric [A-Za-z] and digits, spaces and strange characters stripped out;</li>
<li>convert spaces and strange characters into dashes (-)</li>
<li>convert spaces and strange characters in underscores (_)</li>
</ul>
You can apply website-based or date-based prefix, even a custom prefix. Lowercase or Uppercase? Your choice! 
Some default prefix:
<ul>
<li>time/date based timestamps via PHP date()</li>
<li>blog name/slug</li>
<li>random</li>
<li>and many more!</li>
</ul>
UploadPlus can also transliterate filenames (text conversion from a non-latin script to raw latin characters). 
You can preview settings in the media settings page without uploading files.
<h4>Support</h4>
We’ll do our best to support the plugin on <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/page2cat">support forum</a>. Paid support and custom coding options are available on the <a href="https://swergroup.zendesk.com" rel="nofollow ugc">SWERgroup HelpDesk</a>.
If you found this plugin useful or need a new feature feel free to <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=CX6VQ6FVJFN4L" rel="nofollow ugc">sponsor a coding/support session</a>!
<h4>Credits</h4>
GPL2© 2008+ Paolo Tresso/<a href="http://swergroup.com/sviluppo/siti-internet-torino/" rel="nofollow ugc">SWERgroup</a>.

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