Helen Hou-Sandi

Really Simple Gallery Widget adds a widget to display images from the Media Library, no extra uploading or creating custom post types required. You can choose to show images from a specific post/page, the entire media library, or a specific set of attachment IDs. On single pages/posts, you can also show only images attached to the item currently being viewed. Especially helpful if your galleries are based on what’s attached to a post and you want to be able to easily display those images in a widget area.
<h4>Features</h4>
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<li>Add as many widgets as you want, wherever you want</li>
<li>Display images from a specific post/page, the entire Media Library, or a specific set of attachment IDs</li>
<li>Display images from the post/page currently being viewed</li>
<li>Select a number of images</li>
<li>Select any registered size in WordPress</li>
<li>Display the images in various orders</li>
<li>Show or hide captions</li>
<li>Link the images to the original file, post, anchor in the post, attachment page, or nothing. NOTE: If the image is not attached to a post, the file link will be used instead of the post or anchor in the post.</li>
<li>Add a prefix to the link and image title (appears as a tooltip)</li>
<li>Use a rel attribute for the link – great for lightboxes</li>
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Really Simple Gallery Widget

Simple widget for displaying images from the Media Library with plenty of configurable options.

Matt Rude

The Random Image Block is a small plugin that will display a random image from your native WordPress photo galley or in-beaded images.
This widget will display the thumbnail of the random image, the “caption” and the images parent posts name. You may show all pictures on your site, or limit the selection to a single category if you wish. Once installed on your site, it will fully conform to the current theme. The Widgets title is also fully configurable. Random Image Widget was designed with full internationalization in mind and can be fully translated (Any help on this would be appreciated). As of Version 0.3 this plugin works out of the box without any configuraion (assuming you have pictures on your site).
The Random Image Block plugin works with WordPress 3.0+ in both single and multi site modes. As a Site Admin, you may activate this plugin across all the sites on your install.
This Plugin is fully translated into the following languages:
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<li>Arabic</li>
<li>Czech</li>
<li>Finnish</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>Danish</li>
<li>Dutch</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>Indonesian</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Portuguese</li>
<li>Russian</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
</ul>
If you would like to help translating this plugin, or you see a problem with the current translation, please see my <a href="http://translate.mattrude.com/projects/random-image-block" rel="nofollow ugc">Translation</a> page, and/or <a href="http://mattrude.com/contact-me/" rel="nofollow ugc">contact me</a>.

Random Image Block

A small plugin that will display a random image from your native WordPress photo galley or in-beaded images.

Really Simple Gallery Widget vs Random Image Block