Random Post Plugin – Redirect URL to Post
Automatically redirect to your latest, oldest, random, or other post through a custom URL
5(20 reviews)
·4.0K+ active installs·Updated 10 months agoAs of April 2026, Random Post Plugin is a WordPress filter plugin with 4.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 20 reviews. It has been downloaded 83K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9+ and PHP 8.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Downloads are up 14% this week. Top alternative: HUSKY – Products Filter Professional….
5/520 reviews
4.0K+active installs
83K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
Redirect your visitors to
- a random post
- your last (latest) post
- your first (oldest) post
- the previous or next post
- or a combination of conditions, for example a random post among your last 10 posts, or the latest post from at least 3 months ago, or the latest post of a specific author.
Features | Examples | Documentation | Latest Development Blog Post
A magic URL takes you to the right post
This plugin provides a URL (link) that takes you directly to a post in single-post view. This post is determined by the query parameter ?redirect_to= and optional others.
While the URL remains the same, its target changes depending on the available posts at the time when somebody enters it. That means you can use the same static URL in a menu, with a button or in a newsletter and the plugin finds out…
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Works great, more features needed
by jaribali1·1 year ago·2 replies
The plugin works great as is but it would be nice to be able to send payloads to the selected post (e.g. /?redirect_to=random&action=doSomething)
Kindly look into this. You are doing great 👌
Simple and Seamless!
by halfcrackedguru·1 year ago·1 reply
Excellent plugin! Create a URL using their parameters…that’s it!
Very useful plugin & Excellent support!
by bonnie333·2 years ago·1 reply
Very useful plugin & Excellent support!
Plugin tốt
by dien99vn·2 years ago·1 reply
Rất hữu ích! Cảm ơn tác giả rất nhiều.
Very useful plugin!
by criserjjio·4 years ago·1 reply
Awesome plugin and support!
Download Trends
Today: 5Yesterday: 10This week: 50Period total: 6K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.9+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 8.0+ required |
Version Adoption
v0.25
87.8%
Other
12.2%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
0.25.0
Features
- New parameter
fragment
0.24.0
Contributors
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