Random Pages Widget
Random Pages Widget - For Visitors & SEO
Displays random posts and pages in sidebar. This increases the number of indexed pages and gives users an interesting way to browse your site.
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.
- By randomly spreading around links the chances a search engine spider fully index your site greatly increases.
- Increase traffic from the search engines due to having more pages indexed (see last point).
- Discover new keyphrases that will drive huge traffic to you site.
Questions, Comments and feature suggestions
Please leave questions and comments below
- Upload folder into to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
- Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
- Use your 'Presentation'/'Sidebar Widgets' settings to drag and configure
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
Change Log
1.01
- fixed Page count
- added posts, pages or both configuration
1.02
- fixed hanging on drag widget
1.03
- fixed bug with having only 1 post
- fixed to work for 2.8.2 (please upgrade to 2.8.3 however, it works better)
- will not showed scheduled tasks
1.04
- now works with broken-link-checker plugin
Known Issues:
- version 2.8.2 of wordpress + firefox make it hard to setup this widget from the admin panel - upgrade wordpress OR try another browser. All other browser + wordpress versions should work
Any comments suggestions or bugs please add below
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August 3rd, 2009 at 4:37 pm
nice plugin, i like. small bug in it that results in bad output on blog. will tell u details and give you config info if u email me @ john@gottb.com and we can talk more via that channel. peace – dark*
August 4th, 2009 at 12:23 am
Today’s update solves the problem, thanks
August 5th, 2009 at 7:39 am
Good plugin. It would be better if you can add an optional thumbnail feature. For example, I have a celebrity gossip site and text only links don’t increase my pageviews.
There is a good plugin called Linkwithin(.com) that creates thumbnails of related posts automatically under every post. You can use 90×90 thumbnails add an option to determine numbers of columns etc. I have a ‘popular posts’ widget that I created manually. Actually I want an exact copy of it with random posts
August 5th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Resolved:
I tried installing on WP version 2.8.2 but it gave a ‘fatal error’ while I tried to ‘activate’ it. I understand it might not be ready for 2.8.2 yet.
Thought of letting you or anyone else know who might try the same. Looking forward for the update.
Adam replies: Fixed in version 1.03 Thanks for your help.
August 5th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Can you insert random posts in the main area, instead of sidebar?
August 6th, 2009 at 2:05 am
Hi Goygoycu,
I looked at that plugin and at your site. I will consider it as a future feature or new plugin. Keep the ideas coming folks.
August 6th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Hi Ryan,
That would be doable. I will put in on the wish list.
August 7th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Is there an include code i can use instead? I dont have a widgetised sidebar.
August 8th, 2009 at 6:09 am
Resolved:
In my older wordpress it work perfectly, but in wp 2.8.2 Experience as the same as Sony,
In the sidebar setting I CAN change the title, But I CAN NOT change post/page, list type and the number of post count.
And finally the result is:
Warning: array_rand() [function.array-rand]: Second argument has to be between 1 and the number of elements in the array in /home/equinock/public_html/wp-content/plugins/10-random-pages-wordpress-widget/randompages.php on line 92
Random Post
Adam Replies:
Thank for the information. I have fixed these problems in the 1.03. Thanks greatly for your help
August 8th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
I couldn’t get the plug-in to activate. It kept giving my a fatal error message. Working with 2.8.3
August 8th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
I tried uploading it using your instructions and it doesn’t show in the plug-in library and uploading it as a zip file and trying to activate it gives the fatal error message.
August 8th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Hi Jeff,
It should show up in the plugins list if you put it in the correct folder. Please review the instructions. Also, upload the folder contained in the zip file, not the zip file itself. That is why you are getting a fatal error.
August 8th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Resolved:
Adam,
I have attempted to get this widget working about 10 times now.
I have used two mentions to do so.
1. Through the plugin/add new/upload. This method, which I have never had issues with better, uploads a .zip file. It uploads and unzips fine. But when I activate it I get the following fatal error message.
Can not redeclare microtime_float() previously declared in broken-link-checker on line 182.
2. So I delete random pages. Then using FTP upload the plugin unzipped folder to the Wordpress/wp-content/plugins folder. Refresh the admin panel. Your plugin isn’t being listed in the plugin database or listing.
Adam Replies:
Hi Jeff,
Thanks for the details and sorry about all the problem. It sounds like this plugin is using the same function name as your broken link checker plugin. I have fixed this problem in version 1.04. Please upgrade.
August 8th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
ooops. I meant your plugin isn’t listed in the plugin database/listing when using method 2.
August 10th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Showing a thumbnail would be supercool since the site I need it for is a cartoon. Also excluding the last post (since that is on the homepage allready) would be nice.
But nice plug in anyway!
August 13th, 2009 at 3:15 am
Tried using the widget in Wordpress 2.8.4 but it isn’t showing up on our site.
August 13th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Hi K2,
Did you add the widget to the sidebar of your theme?
August 14th, 2009 at 2:33 am
It had showed up in the center column widget area in 2.8.3, but we upgraded to 2.8.4.
Yes we put the widget in a center column widget area. It didn’t show up. Then we removed it and moved it to the right sidebar. It didn’t show up there either.
August 14th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Hi K2,
I have upgraded one of my blogs to 2.8.4 and the widget is still working. Are you getting any error messages? Do you have other plugins installed that could possibly interfere with this one?
August 15th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
No error messages. Just a blank widget. I don’t know. The one widget area had a text box widget. The sidebar has Social Homes, Text, WP Polls, WP Cumulus, Archive and recent changes.
August 15th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
I resolved the problem.
August 16th, 2009 at 12:01 am
I publish a blog but know nil about php or XML. I installed your widget, thank you! I do like the concept.”
I have a slight problem because the “created by line is not aligned with the rest of the sidebar. Please clink above to see. Would appreciate your help through my email above.
August 16th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
hi, im trying to get the posts to align left, they are aliging center, can you please help?
August 17th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Hi K2,
What was the problem and how did you resolve it?
August 19th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Having the option to exclude some categories or pages will be great.
August 20th, 2009 at 12:48 am
Hi Victor,
I think an exclusion feature would be great as well. I am planning on adding it at some point.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Good job with this! Although, I can’t seem to choose a category, as you’ve described here:
“Category: Only this category will be selected as the source”
All I see in the widget manager is Title, Pages/Posts, List type and Page count. Am I doing something wrong or is this feature not included yet?
August 23rd, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Hi Emil and others who have asked. The categories feature does not exist yet – it is planned as a new feature but not yet implemented. Sorry for any confusion. I have removed it from the text above.
August 25th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
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August 25th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
I’m having a weird issue. Even though all the random posts are showing up, they all have the same link to the top article listed on the current page. I’m not sure if 2.8.4 had something to do with this. Take a look on my site.
August 27th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Hey Avery
It works fine for me on your site??
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:09 am
I want add “Attribute” filter on ‘edit-pages’ like as “Author” sorting button.
check the following screen shot:
http://booksandpublishing.mu.commongroundpublishing.com/files/2009/09/edit_pages.jpg
if you have any plugin please give me.
September 4th, 2009 at 12:09 am
thank you admin