Display Random Posts Without WordPress Plugin

By displaying random post in blog you can show blog visitors all your old posts.This will increase page views and your old articles comes to light. 😉 For easy access to old articles display random posts in sidebar or in footer. Using more plugins in blog will reduce its speed.So, I will show how you can display random posts in your WordPress blog without using any pulgin. 🙂

Goto Dashboard –> Appearance –> Editor and open sidebar.php, just copy and paste the following code:

<li><h3>Random Post</h3>
<ul>
<?php $posts = get_posts(‘orderby=rand&numberposts=5’); foreach($posts as $post) { ?>
<li><a href=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>” title=”<?php the_title(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a>
</li>
<?php } ?>
</ul>
</li>

Note:

If you want to display more than 5 posts, simply change the number 5 to the number of your choice.Very easy…Isn’t it? 🙂