new feature — random stumbling

engtech · Member · Apr 23, 2007 at 8:40 pm
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Hi guys,

Matt put in a hidden new feature this weekend. You can add a link in your sidebar so that people can stumble through your blog at random.

It’s pretty cool :)
drmike · Member · Apr 23, 2007 at 8:52 pm
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Just noticed that they announced the box.net widget on the blog as well.
knoizki · Member · Apr 23, 2007 at 9:33 pm
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I tried it on your blog, engtech. Such a neat feature. When are we gonna start using it?
timethief · Member · Apr 23, 2007 at 9:41 pm
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The way I understand it from reading engtech’s post we can do it right now.

You can add a link in your sidebar so that people can stumble through your blog at random. All wordpress.com bloggers can do the same thing for their blog by adding “?random” to the URL of their main site. http://insertyourblogname.wordpress.com/?random
drmike · Member · Apr 23, 2007 at 10:12 pm
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And we also have contact forms. Two in a day? Someone ate their veggies last night ;)
knoizki · Member · Apr 23, 2007 at 10:12 pm
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Sorry, I didn’t actually see that. For the record, it’s working fine in my blog. Thank you.
carocat · Member · Apr 23, 2007 at 11:10 pm
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Yeah, I’m thinking of putting it on my blog. Thanks engtech.

And now for setting up the contact page…. :)
drmike · Member · Apr 23, 2007 at 11:17 pm
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Would be nice to see this as a widget. Hate to tie up yet another text widget for it…
boles · Member · Apr 23, 2007 at 11:19 pm
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Contact page now online. Check.

Random generator now online. Check.

I agree with you, drmike, it would be great to have the random article generator as a widget that would load five random articles with, perhaps, a 25 word preview for each that would re-load every time the page is refreshed.
timethief · Member · Apr 24, 2007 at 12:15 am
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Re: random post generator – I’m in agreement with drmike and with what boles has suggested.
andrew · Member · Apr 24, 2007 at 2:38 am
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I found a video that seems to capture much of the wp.com community’s reaction to the three new features. I embedded said video (and listed said features) at:
http://changingway.org/2007/04/23/new-wordpresscom-features/
engtech · Member · Apr 24, 2007 at 5:30 pm
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I create a greasemonkey script that adds “Random Post” to the blue bar when logged into wordpress.com — so you can view random posts on any wordpress.com blog

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