Get Random
April 26, 2007
Here’s just a little easter egg for you to play with:
Try adding ?random to the end of your WordPress.com URL and it will redirect you to a random post on your blog.
You can link to that address like any other, either in your post or a widget.
Here’s the link in action on this blog.
I hope you have a very random Thursday. 🙂
Update: Based on a suggestion in the comments, I’ve added this to the admin bar so when you’re logged in and you hover over “blog info” the first menu item is a random post link.
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Great addition Matt. I was hoping there’s a widget available for this, but the link code works easily anyways. It’s good for the sidebars. Thanks.
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Lol, awesomely funny.
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Whoo Hooo!
A New Desk Toy!
amm
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this is funny ^^
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Random Thursday? I clicked on the above link, and suddenly it was Saturday…
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Very fun. I forgot I even wrote some of the posts that pop up when I use this.
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There must be a way to incorporate that into the sidebar link to a random post. Something along the lines of recent posts, except for random posts…I can’t quite think how, tho
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cool!
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Thanks.
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can we add this to the blog info menu in the top right of the blue bar?
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my personal favorite
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Very cool! I love it. Whoever suggested this had a great idea.
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This is really cool!
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Precious
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Wow, that is utterly useless. But I guess it could be fun. 😉
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Kewl… I really love the umm randomness of it!
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One more addition to make wordpress even more interesting in using with my studentes.
Congrats!
LMML
Portugal
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I like it!
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Adam, that’s a great idea. I’m deploying it now.
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Sweet, I like the fact that its a URL so we can customize it with images!!
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I Can Has Cheezburger?RANDOM — FTW!
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Here’s the greasemonkey script I created a few days ago for putting the Random Post on the admin bar (directly on the admin bar, not under Blog Info).
Redundant now, but such is life. 🙂
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Quick question, can you make it into a “page” template? That way we can have “Random Post” in our top nav bars?? Now THAT would be awesome!!
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Now that’s a fun one.
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Hmm. Interesting.
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Super, then we can go from random post to random post. Kind of an intrablog stumble…
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good job Matt 😀
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what a funny addition 🙂 thanks..
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Thanks, it’s an exciting possibility. I’ve deployed it here ( http://regenerationayk.wordpress.com ) on the right side bar. I used a text widget.
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THAT’S AWESOME.
I’m going to put that on my blog right now.
Thanks!
You guys rock!
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this surely what i’ve been looking for, great, thank man!
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I agree with therealdonquixote. Can you make it a “page” link so that we can recirculate/introduce readers to random old posts?
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The “snap shots” preview is evidently not random on these random links.
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@therealdonequixote: if you have the CSS upgrade you can move the random post link anywhere you want.
I have it in my sidebar with the rest of the stuff like my tag cloud, sidebar, sitemap, etc.
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It’s just sooo funny. I really like it.
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goodie! 🙂
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now this is one fun addition 🙂
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it’s ok.
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Aha.. thanks Matt.
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I have it in my sidebar as a text widget link. Nice idea, Matt!
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Cool feature that…fun too!
BTW, care to tell how the ‘Randomness’ is calculated
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aaaa…. Fuuuun… 😆
I’m playing with my friends :))))
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Can you give me some more example to try? I have tried it but no result found. What is its syntax to add in the post?
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Fun feature 🙂
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lol 🙂
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Greeeeaaaaaat!!!!!!!!!!!
I was missing this kind of stuff so much… until now!
Thanks!!!
S.
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I like this one a lot. Planning to add it as a text widget. 🙂
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hey isnt this the thing used to mimic the features of stumbleupon. Techcrunch talked about you developing a stumble like feature. good add though.
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I tried it and I’m stuck in a Cheeseburger and can’t get out!
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It is fun and interesting. Already I’m thinking of what to do with it. Great idea. Thanks for sharing the tip.
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Innovative!
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Cool
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THATS FREEKIN’ AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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😀 😀 😀 🙂 🙂 🙂
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This is so good, I like it soo much that I made a moving gif pic and put it on my sidebar! WORKS A TREAT!!!!!
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I love it! : D
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Great ! 🙂
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I added this to my sidebar too. Pretty neat.
Does this have any effect on site stats? I mean, if you post the ?random url on other sites and someone clicks it, will it show a hit for the post they happened to land on?
I guess I’ll have to try, but if it does, it could complicate reading your statistics a bit.
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I love this option!!!!! THANK YOU!
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Excellent!!!!!!
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wow! that’s great!
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yeaaaahhhhhh!!
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Love it, Matt…good one. 😀
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Nice. hopefully, this’ll send some love to the less popular blogs
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Cool feature… 😀
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Very nice 😀
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ok… this is farny 🙂
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good job. thx. 🙂
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Very cool! A great way to increase readership of old posts.
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anything random is good by me 🙂
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I like this. My readers love it. Something I wanted years ago but couldn’t bring myself to javascript. Thanks for doing the hard stuff for me and leaving me to the writing!
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yay.. this is cool.. love this new feature. thanks! 😉
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good job…
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matt’s cool…Oh…Wordpress is cool!
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I enjoy the ability to blast randomised content at my audience like a bizarre Marvel comic mutant.
Fergis
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Very useful useless toy! Loved it! Thanks Matt! ILWP!!!! 😀
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Matt, I kind of have a crush on you.
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Gotta love random…..very sweet indeed!
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This is kinda fun, I found posts I haven’t seen in months!
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I am going to have to try this but I only have two posts so I don’t think it will as much fun.
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