Creates a widget that takes randomly a number of excerpts from a category of your choice and fades them in and out.
As of April 2026, Random Excerpts Fader is a WordPress random plugin with 40 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 6.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Random Post Plugin – Redirect URL to….
This plugin was developed to display excerpts from random posts in a category. jQuery is used for fading the plugin in and out. It’s a great way for displaying testimonials of clients or just giving a snapshot of content from your site.
Shortcode added as of version 1.4
The most basic use is: [reFader] this will use the default options.
Here is an example of all the options in use
[reFader title=”Random Excerpts” cat=”23″ type=”post” amount=”5″ length=”50″ duration=”5000″ linked=”no” url=”http://www.jackreichert.com/”]
This will show 5 (amount) posts (type) from category #23 (cat). It will show 50 (length) words from each post and fade out/in every 5 seconds (duration). It will not li…
| WordPress | 3.5+ requiredTested up to 4.7.33 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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