Advanced Random Posts Widget
Provides flexible and advanced random posts. Display it via shortcode or widget with thumbnails, post excerpt, and much more!
4(39 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 2 years agoAs of April 2026, Advanced Random Posts Widget is a WordPress widget plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4/5 rating from 39 reviews. It has been downloaded 216K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 2 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 10% this week. Top alternative: Widgets for Google Reviews.
4/539 reviews
10K+active installs
216K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013
Overview
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 p…
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Ratings & Reviews
439 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Thank you so much for this plugin
by diraph·2 years ago
This is a super helpful plugin. Thank you so much for this.
Great Plugin
by saeed·3 years ago
this is a great useful plugin but need to be updated!
It’s awesome – but needs “update” to clear security flag
by WebSprite·4 years ago
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·4 years ago
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·5 years ago
U don’t have support AVIF.
Download Trends
Today: 22Yesterday: 18This week: 143Period total: 6K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.5+ requiredTested up to 6.1.10 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.2
91.5%
v2.1
7.7%
Other
0.8%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.2.0 – March 07, 2019
- Support WordPress 5.1
- Added: Display full post. props Rhys Wynne
- Added:
widthandheightattribute if using custom image size
Contributors
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