While I was working on my new theme for thisismyurl.com I came across the need to publish a series of random posts in the side bar and so I put together a simple post randomizer for WordPress. The tool works like most WordPress theme calls and features:

• Customizable number of links returned
• Customizable before and after to ensure you can display the results
• The ability to echo or return results

To use the plugin, install it to your WordPress website and edit your theme files by placing the following code:

General results
Without passing any parameters, the plugin will return ten results or fewer depending on how many posts you have.

[source lang="php"]<?php randomPosts();?>[/source]

Specific number of results
If you would like to return a specific number of results as your maximum:

[source lang="php"]<?php randomPosts(‘count=10′);?>[/source]