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WP PlugIndex currently records Random Posts Within Date Range Widget version 1.2 as active, updated 16y ago and tested up to WordPress 3.0.
Overview
About this plugin
This plugin allows you to create a widget that will display the title/date/excerpt from random posts in a specified(or open-ended) date range. It can also be used outside of a widget to create custom loops of random posts within a date range. The following can be specified:
Number of posts to display
Whether or not to show dates
Whether or not to show excerpts
Excerpt length (number of words)
Start date and End date of posts to randomize
Whether or not to always use current date as end. (Allows you to include new posts without editing settings every day)
Option to use relative time instead (To chose from random posts from last week, year, etc.)
Category to choose posts from. (Example: Random posts from sports category in the past week. This is the original reason I needed a plugin like this. Comes in handy for the newspaper site I run.)
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categories
date
posts
random
widget
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested up to WordPress 3.0
Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 3.0.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to3.0
Minimum requirementsWordPress 2.8.6 · PHP not listed
Update activity12 Sept 201016y ago
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