Advanced Random Posts Widget

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Easily display random posts in a widget. Allows you to display them with thumbnails, post excerpt, specific category and more.

Author:satrya (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:4.5
WordPress version tested:6.1.3
Plugin version:2.2.1
Added to WordPress repository:11-02-2013
Last updated:05-08-2023
Rating, %:80
Rated by:39
Plugin URI:https://github.com/idenovasi/advanced-random-...
Total downloads:206 474
Active installs:20 000+
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This plugin is no longer supported, please use Recent posts widget Extended instead.

This plugin will enable a custom, flexible and advanced random posts. It allows you to display a list of random posts via shortcode or widget with thumbnail, excerpt and post date, also you can display it from all or specific or multiple taxonomy.

Features Include

  • Allow you to set title url.
  • Display thumbnails, with customizable size and alignment.
  • Display excerpt, with customizable length.
  • Display from all, specific or multiple category.
  • Display from all, specific or multiple tag.
  • Display from all, specific or multiple taxonomy.
  • Display post date.
  • Display post modified date.
  • Post types.
  • Post status.
  • Allow you to set custom css class per widget.
  • Add custom html or text before and/or after random posts.
  • Multiple widgets.

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Shorcode Explanation

Explanation of shortcode options:

Basic shortcode

[arpw]

Display 10 random posts

[arpw limit="10"]

Display with thumbnail and set the size

[arpw thumbnail="true" thumbnail_size="arpw-thumbnail"]

Display posts based on category by id

[arpw thumbnail="true" cat="10"]

Display portfolio post type

[arpw post_type="portfolio"]

Here’s the full default shortcode arguments

title=""
offset=""
limit="5"
post_type="post"
post_status="publish"
ignore_sticky="1"
taxonomy=""
cat=""
tag=""
thumbnail="false"
thumbnail_size="arpw-thumbnail"
thumbnail_align="left"
excerpt="false"
excerpt_length="10"
date="false"
date_modified="false"
date_relative="false"
css_class=""
before=""
after=""
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