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Advanced Random Posts Widget

By Ga Satrya

Content Management / Blog & Article Publishing

Advanced Random Posts Widget Review - In-Depth Analysis

Advanced Random Posts Widget enables displaying random posts with thumbnails and excerpts. It supports customizations via shortcode or widget.

Performance Overview

WPS Score

7.25/10

User Rating

4/5 (based on 39+ reviews)

Active Installations

10,000+

Update Frequency

Below Average It is calculated using the weighted average of same category plugins.

Security Score

1 / 10 (Very Low Risk) It is calculated using the weighted average of all versions.

What It Does

The Advanced Random Posts Widget allows users to display a list of random posts in a flexible manner. You can use shortcodes or widgets to show posts with thumbnails, excerpts, and post dates. The plugin supports displaying posts from all or specific categories, tags, or taxonomies.

Features include customizable thumbnail sizes and alignment, customizable excerpt lengths, and the ability to add custom HTML or text before or after the random posts. You can also set custom CSS classes for each widget and display multiple widgets simultaneously.

This plugin is no longer supported, and users are encouraged to switch to the Recent Posts Widget Extended for continued functionality.

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free Advanced Random Posts Widget plugin.

Random Posts

Sidebar

Thumbnail

Widget

Widgets

Screenshots

FAQ

Your theme needs to support Post Thumbnail, please go to https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Thumbnails to read more info and how to activate it in your theme.

The plugin comes with a very basic style, if you want to add custom style please do wp_dequeue_style to remove the default stylesheet. Place the code below in your theme functions.php.

function prefix_remove_arpw_style() {     wp_dequeue_style( 'arpw-style' ); } add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'prefix_remove_arpw_style', 10 );

Then you can add your custom style using Custom CSS plugin or in your theme style.css. Here’s the plugin selector

/* ul */ .arpw-ul {}  /* li */ .arpw-li {}  /* title */ .arpw-title {}  /* thumbnail */ .arpw-thumbnail {}  /* date */ .arpw-time {}  /* excerpt */ .arpw-summary {}