Title: Weighted Random Authors
Author: Jake Goldman
Published: <strong>December 7, 2009</strong>
Last modified: December 9, 2009

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# Weighted Random Authors

 By [Jake Goldman](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jakemgold/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/weighted-random-authors.1.1.1.zip)

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

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/weighted-random-authors/)

## Description

This widget selects a limited list of random post authors, weighted towards authors
with more published posts.
 Give all of your post authors a chance to be featured
in the sidebar, while encouraging more posting and rewarding authors who post most
frequently.

Easily configure numer of authors (or list all), widget title, display of post count,
and display of author
 gravatar.

### Coming soon

 1. Call output by function (no widget support required).
 2. More display configuration options.

## Installation

 1. Install easily with the WordPress plugin control panel or manually download the
    plugin and upload the extracted
     folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Add the “Weighted Random Authors” widget by going to the “Widgets” menu under appearance.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

 *   [ Jake Goldman ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jakemgold/)

[Translate “Weighted Random Authors” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/weighted-random-authors)

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

1.0.1 – Fix author links.

1.0.2 – Better weighting algorithm.

1.1 – Expand / collapse list feature

1.1.1 – Fix hardcoded table name

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.1**
 *  Last updated **16 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.8.6**
 * Tags
 * [authors](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/authors/)[featured](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/featured/)
   [random](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/random/)[widget](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/weighted-random-authors/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Jake Goldman ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jakemgold/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/weighted-random-authors/)

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