Plugin info

Total downloads: 7,675
Active installs: 400
Total reviews: 4
Average rating: 5
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 2 language(s)
Contributors: 1
Last updated: 10/21/2024 (436 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 3/10/2021 (4 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 4.0
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.6.4
Minimum PHP version: 5.6

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Possibly abandoned • Last updated 436 days ago • 4 reviews

28/100

Is Random abandoned?

Possibly abandoned (last update 436 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 4.0
Tested up to: 6.6.4
Requires PHP: 5.6

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Description

With Random plugin you can insert into your WordPress website one or more random contents coming from your posts.
The source contents can be pages, posts or custom post types.
You can display information in many different ways:
* A list of post titles
* One or more full contents or excerpts
* Raw URLs to posts permalink

Installation

From your WordPress dashboard

  1. Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
  2. Search for ‘Random’
  3. Activate the plugin from your Plugins page.

From WordPress.org

  1. Download Random zip file
  2. Unzip it
  3. Upload the unzipped directory to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
  4. Activate the plugin from your Plugins page.

Frequently Asked Questions

No FAQ available

Review feed

Scribit
3/10/2021

Wikipedia style!

This plugin give to your website the possibility to get random content for specific posts types. You can use to give to your visitors random posts, or random woocommerce products for your clients. Very useful in my opinion.

Screenshots

  1. Select how many post and with which types you want to show. Select also the post format.

    Select how many post and with which types you want to show. Select also the post format.

  2. For each post select the fields to show from title, content, excerpt or simple permalink.

    For each post select the fields to show from title, content, excerpt or simple permalink.

  3. Get the shortcode in one click; copy and paste it wherever you want in your webpage to show the random contents. Get also an instant demonstration of your shortcode result.

    Get the shortcode in one click; copy and paste it wherever you want in your webpage to show the random contents. Get also an instant demonstration of your shortcode result.

Changelog

1.3

  • Removed deprecated warnings for PHP >= 8.2
  • WordPress 6.6.2 compatibility
  • Imporoved escaping
  • Minor graphic changes

1.2

  • Add new parameter to include only some posts from random results (by IDs)
  • Setting inputs additional clean

1.1.1

  • WordPress 6.3.2 compatibility
  • Translation corrected

1.1

  • WordPress 6.3.1 compatibility
  • Add new parameter to exclude some posts from random results (by IDs)
  • URLs escaped
  • Corrected URLs for multisite installations

1.0.3

  • WordPress 5.8 compatibility
  • Restyling of about page

1.0.2

  • Correction in URL type shortcode

1.0.0

  • First plugin version