Random post in sidebar

Hello everybody,

I’m trying to simply display 3 random post on my page’s sidebar widget, but somehow its not working. I’m using following code:

<ul>
<?php
$args = array( 'numberposts' => 5, 'orderby' => 'rand', 'post_status' => 'publish', 'offset' => 1);
$rand_posts = get_posts( $args );
foreach( $rand_posts as $post ) : ?>
    <li><h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2><p><?php //the_excerpt(); ?>
</p></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

I’ve installed php exec plugin so it executes php in sidebar.

thanks,
gautam