WordPress Plugin Random Redirect

Matt Mullenweg creator of WordPress released a neat little plugin called Random Redirect.  It allows your blog readers to randomly discover your blog posts. Matt says the Random Redirect plugin:

Allows you to create a link to yourblog.example.com/?random which will redirect someone to a random post on your blog, in a StumbleUpon-like fashion. You can also specific in the URL random_post_type or random_cat_id.

Now, I love StumbleUpon and actually spend time stumbling for fun.  So, I think other folks like it as well, after all there are over 5 million Stumblers who use StumbleUpon.  The Random Redirect plugin allows your readers to stumble, in a sense, the posts on your blog.  Here’s one way to do it.

Create a widget in your sidebar like the screen shot below or some other globally visible area on your blog like your header or footer.  Make a link that says something like “For a good time read my blog randomly.”

I placed the link code below in a Text widget in WordPress:

For a good time <a href=”http://localhost/wordpress27/?random”>randomly read</a> my blog.