Title: Advanced Random Posts Author: yakuphan Published: november 1, 2008 Last modified: september 5, 2009 --- Search plugins 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. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/advanced-random-posts.svg) # Advanced Random Posts By [yakuphan](https://profiles.wordpress.org/yakuphan/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/advanced-random-posts.zip) * [Details](https://pap-aw.wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-random-posts/#description) * [Reviews](https://pap-aw.wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-random-posts/#reviews) * [Installation](https://pap-aw.wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-random-posts/#installation) * [Development](https://pap-aw.wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-random-posts/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/advanced-random-posts/) ## Description Advanced Random Posts Widget displays your posts by selecting randomly with thumbnail images (optional). It gets posts from selected categories or current category or all posts. When your visitors are at home, it gets posts from all posts or selected category. If you set ‘Get posts from current category’, when visitors see single post, widget lists posts in the same category of single post or when visitors click a category link, it gets posts from current category. Notice: Version 2.2+ requires at least 2.8. #### Supported Languages * English * Turkish * Russian – Thanks [Fatcow ](http://www.fatcow.com) ### Options Widget’s options allow you to change your random posts list displaying. #### Title: Your random posts widget’s title on your sidebar. #### Number of posts to show: How many posts to display #### Excerpt length (letters) You know that #### Thumbnail Custom Field Name If you want to display the thumbnail of your posts via a custom field, write its name. #### Height – Width Images size. #### Get first image of post If you don’t want to use custom field, plugin will get first image from your post content. #### Get first attached image of post Plugin gets first attached image of post. #### Default image If post has no image, plugin display this image. Ex: http://www.yakupgovler.com/ default-image.png Notice: If you use three options, plugin uses custom field image firstly. If the post has no custom field, it gets first image from content. At last it gets first attached image. I suggest not to use “Get first image of post” for performance. It queries much more. #### Categories Plugin gets posts in these categories. (Category IDs, separated by commas.) #### Get posts from current category: Posts will be get from current category (single post’s category or current category). ## Screenshots * [[ * Widget’s screenshot in ‘Appearance’->’Widgets’ ## Installation #### Installation 1. Make sure you are running WordPress version 2.8 or better. It won’t work with older versions. If you have older versions, please download v1.1 2. Download the zip file and extract the contents. 3. Upload the ‘advanced-random-posts’ folder (wp-content/plugins/). 4. Activate the plugin through the ‘plugins’ page in WP. 5. See ‘Appearance’->’Widgets’ to place it on your sidebar. Set the settings. ## FAQ Installation Instructions #### Installation 1. Make sure you are running WordPress version 2.8 or better. It won’t work with older versions. If you have older versions, please download v1.1 2. Download the zip file and extract the contents. 3. Upload the ‘advanced-random-posts’ folder (wp-content/plugins/). 4. Activate the plugin through the ‘plugins’ page in WP. 5. See ‘Appearance’->’Widgets’ to place it on your sidebar. Set the settings. How can I set it to get posts from current category? Select checkbox on widget’s settings called ‘Get posts from current category’. I want to display only the posts in two categories. You have to write their category’s ids -seperated with a comma- to ‘Categories’ textbox. I don’t use Widgets. How can use this widget? Please, visit my [website](http://www.yakupgovler.com/?p=416). ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Advanced Random Posts” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ yakuphan ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/yakuphan/) “Advanced Random Posts” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/advanced-random-posts/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “Advanced Random Posts” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/advanced-random-posts) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-random-posts/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/advanced-random-posts/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/advanced-random-posts/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/advanced-random-posts/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 2.3 * Fixed a bug. If you don’t set image dimensions, it displays thumbnail wrong. #### 2.2 * Added Russian language support #### 2.1 * Fixed a bug. When you check ‘Get posts from current category’ and you are in a single post, widget calls an error. Thanks [E.Ali](http://www.alivesitesi.com/). #### 2.0 * Added thumbnail image support * Added multi-language support * Rewriten by using WordPress 2.8 Widget Class API #### 1.1 * Bug fixed, showing the same post id. #### Version 1.0 * Initial release version. ## Meta * Version **2.3** * Last updated **8 years ago** * Active installations **300+** * WordPress version ** 2.8 or higher ** * Tested up to **2.8.4** * Languages * [English (UK)](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-random-posts/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-random-posts/), and [Spanish (Mexico)](https://es-mx.wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-random-posts/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/advanced-random-posts) * Tags * [category](https://pap-aw.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/category/)[category posts](https://pap-aw.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/category-posts/) [posts](https://pap-aw.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)[random](https://pap-aw.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/random/) [Random Posts](https://pap-aw.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/random-posts/) * [Advanced View](https://pap-aw.wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-random-posts/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/advanced-random-posts/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/advanced-random-posts/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ yakuphan ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/yakuphan/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/advanced-random-posts/) ## Donate Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin? [ Donate to this plugin ](http://www.yakupgovler.com/?p=416)