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.
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=""