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This plugin allows you to create a widget that will display the title/date/excerpt from random posts in a specified(or open-ended) date range. It can also be used outside of a widget to create custom loops of random posts within a date range. The following can be specified:

• Number of posts to display
• Whether or not to show dates
• Whether or not to show excerpts
• Excerpt length (number of words)
• Start date and End date of posts to randomize
• Whether or not to always use current date as end. (Allows you to include new posts without editing settings every day)
• Option to use relative time instead (To chose from random posts from last week, year, etc.)
• Category to choose posts from. (Example: Random posts from sports category in the past week. This is the original reason I needed a plugin like this. Comes in handy for the newspaper site I run.)

Please contact me if you run into any issues, either via email (lupka31@gmail.com) or Twitter (http://twitter.com/lupka) For latest FAQs/info visit: http://alexchalupka.com/projects/wordpress/random-posts-widget/