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The Random Featured Post plugin allows you to display a random post from a designated category. Ideally this should draw readers landing on your homepage to some of your best posts. The featured post will display the title “Featured Post” (customizable) along with the post’s title, an excerpt and a link to continue to the full post.
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Show Category Posts Fade in/out

The Random Featured Post plugin allows you to display a random post from a designated category as a "featured" post.

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I once thought I need a different home page for different viewers. 
In best case those users have a GET parameter which decides which page has to be shown.
For Example: 
You go into WordPress and add a page with a name of your choice (in this case the page slug). I chose “music”. 
Now if you want somebody view the music page you have the parameter http://www.example.com/?view=music. 
You can do this with every page you have.
In case you leave it empty nothing happen at all.

GET Different Front Page

Have different primary menus for different viewers.

Show Category Posts Fade in/out vs GET Different Front Page