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Advanced Random Posts Widget

by Ga Satrya

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Description

Notice

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=""

Through Dashboard

  1. Log in to your WordPress admin panel and go to Plugins -> Add New
  2. Type advanced random posts widget in the search box and click on search button.
  3. Find Advanced Random Posts Widget plugin.
  4. Then click on Install Now after that activate the plugin.
  5. Go to the widgets page Appearance -> Widgets.
  6. Find Random Posts widget.

Installing Via FTP

  1. Download the plugin to your hardisk.
  2. Unzip.
  3. Upload the advanced-random-posts-widget folder into your plugins directory.
  4. Log in to your WordPress admin panel and click the Plugins menu.
  5. Then activate the plugin.
  6. Go to the widgets page Appearance -> Widgets.
  7. Find Random Posts widget.
  1. The widget settings

    The widget settings

No image/thumbnail options?

Your theme needs to support Post Thumbnail, please go to https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Thumbnails to read more info and how to activate it in your theme.

Thumbnail Size

By default it uses arpw-thumbnail which have 50×50 size. If you want to use custom image size, you can install https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-image-sizes/ then create new image size, it will appear in the Thumbnail Size selectbox in the widget option.

Thumbnail Size Not Working Properly

I have mentioned it in the plugin description. If you use images that were uploaded to the media library before you installed this plugin and/or you have your own custom image sizes, please install Regenerate Thumbnails plugin to fix the image size.

How to add custom style?

The plugin comes with a very basic style, if you want to add custom style please do wp_dequeue_style to remove the default stylesheet. Place the code below in your theme functions.php.

function prefix_remove_arpw_style() {
    wp_dequeue_style( 'arpw-style' );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'prefix_remove_arpw_style', 10 );

Then you can add your custom style using Custom CSS plugin or in your theme style.css. Here’s the plugin selector

/* ul */
.arpw-ul {}

/* li */
.arpw-li {}

/* title */
.arpw-title {}

/* thumbnail */
.arpw-thumbnail {}

/* date */
.arpw-time {}

/* excerpt */
.arpw-summary {}

Thank you so much for this plugin

By diraph on August 12, 2023

This is a super helpful plugin. Thank you so much for this.

Great Plugin

By saeed (saeedr) on June 10, 2022

this is a great useful plugin but need to be updated!

It's awesome - but needs "update" to clear security flag

By WebSprite (contentsprite) on June 10, 2021

This plug-in works so well it hasn't needed any updates for 2 years. Nothing out there matches it. However, because it hasn't been updated in so long my security software is now flagging it as "abandoned." Please "update" the plug-in! (Maybe to include not stripping formatting from the excerpt?)

The best plugin for random posts

By sylvsteph on April 28, 2021

This plugin is really excellent. It works for me with WordPress 5.7. I would be nice that the Developer makes a test and declare the plugin compabible (or not) for the last version of wordpress.

So boring

By mistermozg on December 20, 2020

U don't have support AVIF.

Plugin abandoned

By primeratoma on November 19, 2020

In the beginning this plugin was great, but several months ago, the developer has abandoned it. No answers in the support forum, and not updates. Best regards.

Sobresaliente

By 5ochos on December 22, 2019

Funciona perfecto. Me costó un poco al inicio, pero luego de leer la documentación y corregir el código logré que responda como esperaba.

Works great

By brainman on November 21, 2019

Easy to use and customizable with custom css.

Close but...

By mikerose23 on May 11, 2019

This would be exactly what I'm looking for if it would display just thumbnails without the post titles. It looks like it's supposed to have the capability to suppress titles, but I can't get that to happen. I would give this five stars if I could do that.

Useless without showing full content of posts

By htz77 (tzeldin88) on October 30, 2018

Very frustrating. I want the widget to display the_content of the post(s), not merely the title or excerpt. This has been requested before, and someone even apparently wrote a patch and did a pull request, but apparently it was not accepted. https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-random-posts-full-content-rather-than-just-the-excerpt/

2.2.0 – March 07, 2019

  • Support WordPress 5.1
  • Added: Display full post. props Rhys Wynne
  • Added: width and height attribute if using custom image size
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