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Random Posts Widget

This simple plugin is a widget that displays a list of random posts on your widgetized sidebar.

07-May-2007: Fixed a bug of displaying widget before and after tag
14-Jun-2007: Fixed a bug where pages are also selected. Now it only displays posts.
26-Jun-2007: Removed before and after configuration options, now taken from theme settings
03-Aug-2007: Overhauled entire engine to optimize queries. This has been tested on a test blog with 50,000 posts on an old machine (Pentium III 600MHz) in maximum 3 seconds. Also removed duplicated results and added category to choose.
04-Aug-2007: Fixed a bug where wrong permalink was displayed
10-Aug-2007: Fixed a bug where if 1 post count is selected an error occured
27-Sep-2007: Added ability to detect database version (WordPress 2.3 has database changed) while maintaining backward-compatibility with 2.2.x

Requires: 2.1 or higher
Compatible up to: 2.3
Last Updated: 2007-9-27
Downloads: 37,397

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