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Author: Scott Reilly

Retrieve the name, path, or link to a randomly chosen file in a specified directory.

Useful for displaying random images/logos or including text from random files onto your site (writing excerpts, multi-line quotes, etc).

Notes:

• If you want to actually display the name of the random file, be sure to 'echo' the results:

• Unless you limit the file search to only include a particular extension (via $extensions argument), all files in the specified $dir will be under consideration for random selection

• Can be run inside or outside of "the loop."