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Simplicy Random Post The options:
Item number posted 
The month of publication eg December = 12 (Set to 0 to disable this option) 
The year of publication such as 2011 (Set to 0 to disable this option) 
Category selection (left on ALL to show all categories) 
Max number of users has preloaded 
Displaying a thumbnail or not 
Size of the thumbnail 
View a excerpt or not 
Length of the excerpt 
Auto refresh or not 
Setting the refresh interval in seconds
Languages: French / English

Simplicy Random Post

Simplicy Random Post is a WordPress plugin that allows you to display random items in your sidebar, you can choose the month and year of publication o …

bmsterling

This plugin retrieves one or more random post/page or both of them from your WordPress installation 
 Arguments: 
 from (string) 
 – show only posts, or pages, or both 
 – possible values: post | page 
 numberposts (integer) 
 – number of posts/pages to return 
 categories (integers, separated by commas) 
 – limits returned posts to posts filed under categories found in arguments 
 exclude (integers, separated by commas) 
 – limits returned posts to posts NOT filed under categories found in arguments
<pre><code>Sample Code:
 <?php
 $myposts = contentmixx( 'from=post&numberposts=2&categories=8' );
 foreach( $myposts as $post ) {
 setup_postdata( $post ); 
 ?>
 <div class="sideBarPost">
 <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title() ?></a></h3>
 <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
 <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">Read More...</a>
 </div>
 <?php
 }
 ?>


 <?php
 $results = contentmixx('numberposts=3');
 foreach($results as $post) :
 setup_postdata($post);
 ?>
 <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
 <?php the_content(); ?>
 <?php endforeach; ?>
</code></pre>
Please submit any bugs or suggested improvements to <a href="https://github.com/bmsterling/Content-Mixx/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/bmsterling/Content-Mixx/issues</a>
Need this plugin customized or need a plugin created, contact me via my contact form at <a href="http://kenzomedia.com" rel="nofollow ugc">http://kenzomedia.com</a>
Also available through twitter, @bmsterling
<h3>Credits</h3>
Copyright 2007 Benjamin Sterling (http://benjaminsterling.com)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or 
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
See the GNU General Public License for more details: 
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

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