Title: Random Pages Widget
Author: john0001
Published: <strong>September 27, 2009</strong>
Last modified: November 16, 2009

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Random Pages Widget

 By [john0001](https://profiles.wordpress.org/john0001/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/random-posts-widget-include.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/random-posts-widget-include/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/random-posts-widget-include/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/random-posts-widget-include/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/random-posts-widget-include/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/random-posts-widget-include/)

## Description

This is a widget that displays a list of random pages/posts on your widgetized sidebar.
The widget displays random posts and pages in sidebar. This increases the number
of indexed pages and gives users an interesting way to browse your site.

Benefits:

 * Give visitors a fun way to browse your site.
 * Get more pages of your site indexed.

**Questions, Comments and feature suggestions**

Please leave questions and comments on my [plugin page](http://financequestionsblog.com/random-pages-widget)

If you like this plugin please give me a good rating! I ask for no donations. If
you’d like to donate, donate to wordpress.org.

### Configuration

 * Widget title: the title of the widget
 * Pages Or Posts: display random pages or random posts or both
 * List types: ul for bulleted list, p for paragraph, br for paragraph with line
   breaks
 * Page count: Number of random pages you would like to be displayed

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Setup: Setting Title
 * [[
 * Setup: Choose to display random pages or posts or both. Standard blog users most
   likley want to selected ‘posts’
 * [[
 * Setup: List type –
 * [[

## Installation

 1. Upload folder into to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Use your ‘Presentation’/’Sidebar Widgets’ settings to drag and configure

## FAQ

Why does this include jquery

 * Newer versions of wordpress include jquery automatically. I am including it here
   to support old versions.

What is with the question mark

 * There is a very small question mark included in the clock that leads you to the
   information page for this widget. This is to spread the word about my widget 
   to other people who be interested in installing it. You can remove this if you
   like, but I would really appreciate some other form of attribution (blog post,
   blogroll link, or whatever)

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Random Pages Widget” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ john0001 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/john0001/)

[Translate “Random Pages Widget” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/random-posts-widget-include)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/random-posts-widget-include/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/random-posts-widget-include/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/random-posts-widget-include/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/random-posts-widget-include/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.00**
 *  Last updated **16 years ago**
 *  Active installations **30+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.8.6**
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[post](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post/)
   [posts](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)[widget](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
   [widgets](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widgets/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/random-posts-widget-include/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ john0001 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/john0001/)

## Support

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