WordPress Tip: How To Randomly Redirect To Random Posts On Your Blog
Here’s a quick and fun WordPress tip for bloggers who own a WordPress blog. If you ever wanted to randomly go through your blog posts in a StumbleUpon-like fashion, then check out the Random Redirect plugin. It allows you create a link to yourblog.com/?random which will then randomly redirect to a random post on your blog.Â
To see it in action, click the link below.
Click Me To Visit a Random Post!
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#1 by Ben Tremblay on November 8, 2008 - 2:07 pm
THat looks good mt friend! In fact I think I'll use it on a special page on my blog I will do some experiment with…Thanks for sharing!
#2 by Sherry on November 8, 2008 - 4:10 pm
talking about SU, my SU been hacked and I can't login or retrieve password as its deleted. The hacker used my acount for spam! even other account like digg, twitter,photobucket as well. Not sure who would do this to me.
#3 by Simon on November 8, 2008 - 5:06 pm
That’s pretty cool - it’s kind of like what Yaro uses at the top of his blog I think, except he has certain posts in rotation
#4 by Shoto Azikuri on November 8, 2008 - 6:20 pm
Hmm, it's very cool plugin
you can add it in your menu
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#5 by Greg Ellison on November 9, 2008 - 2:03 am
That is a very cool plugin to use.
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#6 by Wei Liang | ABlogger on November 9, 2008 - 3:22 am
Hi Sly,
That's a cool plugin to play with but I think installing a related post plugin would be more useful isn't it? It have a stronger call to action rather than displaying random post in my opinion. Let me know if you beg to differ.
Wei Liang
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#7 by Dogomania on November 9, 2008 - 4:28 am
Wow…This is really useful WP Plug-in. Hope it will be useful for my new blog. Thanks for sharing!!!
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#8 by The Earner on November 9, 2008 - 4:49 am
Phuh…What's the use of it? It's pretty useless for me.
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#9 by soares on November 9, 2008 - 12:18 pm
Its nice but i prefer the related post plugin…
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#10 by Sly on November 9, 2008 - 1:12 pm
Hmmm. I don't think I've seen what Yaro is using. I've got to check that out.
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#11 by Sly on November 9, 2008 - 1:18 pm
No problem Ben.
#12 by Sly on November 9, 2008 - 1:20 pm
That sucks big time! Make sure you change the passwords of your other online accounts so they don't get hacked in as well. Once a hacker gets a hold of one of you accounts for anything, it's easy to get the other ones.
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#13 by Sly on November 9, 2008 - 1:22 pm
Sounds like a good idea! I'll think about it. I was thinking of a place to put it somewhere, and the menu might be a good spot.
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#14 by Sly on November 9, 2008 - 1:27 pm
Actually, Random Redirect doesn't show random posts… it leads to a random post when the link is clicked. The related post kind of plugin you're talking about is a totally different type of plugin (which I also use).
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#15 by Sly on November 9, 2008 - 1:31 pm
Well, for a blog that already has a lot of posts, it might be fun to use. But I checked out your blog and see that it's pretty new… that's probably why it's useless to you.
#16 by Sly on November 9, 2008 - 1:32 pm
This plugin is totally different from the related posts plugin. This is a random redirect, which means that when you click the specified link, it will redirect the user to a random post from the blog.
#17 by The Earner on November 9, 2008 - 6:56 pm
maybe it's kind of useful to have some fun with your readers. I used to have many blogs and now I'm developing a new one.
Good luck dude. I just realized we are kind of using the same theme.
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#18 by Sherry on November 9, 2008 - 11:48 pm
you are right sly! I am very careful now.
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#19 by Larry on November 11, 2008 - 3:55 am
Thanks for the tip Sly, I will add it to my plugins and play around with it to see if it is something I could incorporate in my Blog.
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#20 by Caleb on November 11, 2008 - 1:39 pm
Maybe this would work well for a home page so that whenever a visitor arrives they would always see different content
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#21 by Sukhjit on January 7, 2009 - 2:14 am
I have tried to use http://www.lookilikey.com/?random for my website. Unfortunately this doesn't work. I am using WP 2.7. Does anybody have any ideas why?
Thanks
Sukhjit