I have developed a Random Posts widget for Blogger Blogs. Random posts widget displays random links of your blog. This help show content that is neither recent nor popular (because it is random
). The widget displays links in form of link lists. So you change the layout by changing the css of your blogger template.
Here is an example of the widget:

Installing this widget in your own Blogger blog is very easy:
1. Change the title of the widget if you want.
2. Change the number of posts links you want to display.
3. Click the “Customize” button to make the changes take effect, then click on the “Add to Blog” button.
Update:
As per janet’s request i have include an option to add a post summary to the random posts widget.
Preview:

Install this widget
1. Change the title of the widget if you want.
2. Change the number of posts links you want to display.
3. Change the number of words you want to include in the summary to display.
3. Click the “Customize” button to make the changes take effect, then click on the “Add to Blog” button.
Facing a Problem? Tell me!!
about 1 year ago
Thanks !! I might try this on my blog. I’m currently using the LinkWithin to show related posts, but my posts are typically short so they might look crowded. This might be a good alternative.
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about 1 year ago
I installed it on my blog and it’s working beautifully !!
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about 1 year ago
Ya i will posts more widgets like these in future
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about 1 year ago
Wonderful addition by adding the post summary !! I’ve installed this one on my blog, too.
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about 1 year ago
It’s nice, I will try it in my new blog, for now I have used the related post widget, thanks for sharing.
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about 1 year ago
Please fix it doesn’t work now thanks in advance
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about 1 year ago
I am sorry it works thank you but generate links only sometime not always. Thanks you
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about 1 year ago
It will work always. check again and tell me.
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about 1 year ago
Sorry but i am still having problems can you please check what i am doing wrong.
My site url thank
http://www.p2pdesi.com/
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about 1 year ago
Hi.. This widget is really great.
BUT. Does it include thumbnail image in summary post? if not, Can You Add this?
The Thumbnail image in summary post.
Thanks You. I’ll be coming next.
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about 1 year ago
Oh, i forgot something.
How to change this widget? example font, font size and other.
Thanks
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about 1 year ago
@ihsan: the font and font size is same as that of the “li” or the list . you can edit the template and can change the font accordingly
@P2pdesi.com: what problem are you having? The widget works almost every time.
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about 1 year ago
@gautam: Thanks.
But can you make the other script Random post with Thumbnail Image and post summary? like recent post with thumbnail image. I see recent post with thumbnail image in bloggertricks. Please
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December 10, 2009 - 10:05 pm
It is surely possible. Just few tweeks to be done. I think these guys can do it faster. I have seen the codes. probably few tweeks can do it. And by the way this blog godown is 2 good in a sense of comments, views and widgets
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January 12, 2010 - 8:05 am
good thing is that i have done the random post with thumbnails in my blog.
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July 18, 2010 - 9:10 am
Oh man, I’d love to be able to put the widget with thumbnails. Please let us know how you did…would you?
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about 1 year ago
hi..
I’ve used this widget into my blog. This is great. Thanks so much.
But the problem comes when i open my blog with IE and Go0ogle Chrome. This widget doesn’t work with them. But It works so well when i used firefox and opera.
Maybe you can fix it.
Thanks Blog go down
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about 1 year ago
@ihsan i have checked on ie and google chrome, it works fine on it but if it still doesn’t work, put your blog link here and i will see what problem is in the widget. But it is working fine on my blog.
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about 1 year ago
Thanks buddy. Its a great widget. Cheers
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about 1 year ago
Hi, I've tried to add this to my blog but the link and the summary appear in the same color making it difficult to figure out which is the clickable link. And also the link doesn't appear in the bulleted format like in the preview. What can I do to solve this? Thanks.
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about 1 year ago
@Ananonymous: you have to change your template to change the look of the widget.
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about 1 year ago
great widget…but i have a problem…the 'circles' are not showed
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about 1 year ago
@ferome: the circles are displayed because of the template. To change the icon you have to edit the li tag in the template
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about 1 year ago
waiting for random post with image and summary, will be great for featured post
great work
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about 1 year ago
I just discovered your random posts widget. I've been looking for something like this for awhile now. I agree with some of the others here. If you can enhance it so an image from the post can be included I can almost guarantee dozens of my readers will also use it. Several of them have asked me about something like that already because I do something like it manually now. I will also feature it in a post just to let them know about it.
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about 1 year ago
I tried it and I allways get only one post… pls help. MY link is
http://virgiliofreire.blogspot.com/
virgilio.freire@gmail.com
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about 1 year ago
@Virgilio Freire : it is working and i've tested it on my blog before. tell me what settings have you made?
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about 1 year ago
how can I add this widget below my post??
& can you tell me how can i add these "digg it" & "tweet it" icon on post where they show the counting just like you…
answer me
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about 1 year ago
@Kashif Arif: you can add it below the post by copying the code and pasting it below post.body in your template
For the Retweet Button check out my post: How to add Retweet button to blogger
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about 1 year ago
Yes, this is an excellent widget, I might use it myself! You have some really great stuff for bloggers, thank you so much!
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about 12 months ago
Is there a way of only using posts from say the last month?
check here, ive customized it nicely on my site: http://www.hilkoo.com
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about 11 months ago
Thanks, I'll try it
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about 11 months ago
@nymphont: glad u liked it
@hikoo: it is possible if u change the number of max posts to say 25 then it will randomize the latest ones.
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about 11 months ago
Hi from Turkey.
Can we put this widget under the posts like related posts widget? I wanna put both related posts and random posts under the posts. Is it possible? If it is, how?
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about 11 months ago
@Recep Hilmi Tufan: Copy the code and convert the code using Ad Code Converter For Blogger and then post it below <post.body>. This might help you.
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about 8 months ago
opi
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about 6 months ago
After add this random posts widget my blog significantly slow down when loading.is it possible to speen it by changing max posts to lower value.
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about 6 months ago
Wow ! Its a great widget.I will put this up on my blog soon
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about 4 months ago
There is a embeded option available in my themes ..
Nice widget
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about 4 months ago
I have used this widget, it’s wonderful, but how to hide or filter some posts? Is it allow to customize?
Anyway Thanks.
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about 3 months ago
Its Great… Thank You….
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about 2 months ago
hi,
i am looking for random posts with thumnai for my blogg http://pmodels.blogspot.com
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