Get Random
Here’s just a little easter egg for you to play with:
Try adding ?random to the end of your WordPress.com URL and it will redirect you to a random post on your blog.
You can link to that address like any other, either in your post or a widget.
Here’s the link in action on this blog.
I hope you have a very random Thursday. 
Update: Based on a suggestion in the comments, I’ve added this to the admin bar so when you’re logged in and you hover over “blog info” the first menu item is a random post link.
Apr 26th at 7:52 pm
Great addition Matt. I was hoping there’s a widget available for this, but the link code works easily anyways. It’s good for the sidebars. Thanks.
Apr 26th at 7:56 pm
Lol, awesomely funny.
Apr 26th at 7:59 pm
Whoo Hooo!
A New Desk Toy!
amm
Apr 26th at 8:03 pm
this is funny ^^
Apr 26th at 8:03 pm
Random Thursday? I clicked on the above link, and suddenly it was Saturday…
Apr 26th at 8:05 pm
Very fun. I forgot I even wrote some of the posts that pop up when I use this.
Apr 26th at 8:07 pm
There must be a way to incorporate that into the sidebar link to a random post. Something along the lines of recent posts, except for random posts…I can’t quite think how, tho
Apr 26th at 8:10 pm
cool!
Apr 26th at 8:18 pm
Thanks.
Apr 26th at 8:18 pm
can we add this to the blog info menu in the top right of the blue bar?
Apr 26th at 8:19 pm
my personal favorite
Apr 26th at 8:19 pm
Very cool! I love it. Whoever suggested this had a great idea.
Apr 26th at 8:23 pm
This is really cool!
Apr 26th at 8:28 pm
Precious
Apr 26th at 8:32 pm
Wow, that is utterly useless. But I guess it could be fun.
Apr 26th at 8:36 pm
Kewl… I really love the umm randomness of it!
Apr 26th at 8:38 pm
One more addition to make wordpress even more interesting in using with my studentes.
Congrats!
LMML
Portugal
Apr 26th at 8:58 pm
I like it!
Apr 26th at 8:58 pm
Adam, that’s a great idea. I’m deploying it now.
Apr 26th at 9:04 pm
Sweet, I like the fact that its a URL so we can customize it with images!!
Apr 26th at 9:20 pm
I Can Has Cheezburger?RANDOM — FTW!
Apr 26th at 9:28 pm
Here’s the greasemonkey script I created a few days ago for putting the Random Post on the admin bar (directly on the admin bar, not under Blog Info).
Redundant now, but such is life.
Apr 26th at 9:45 pm
Quick question, can you make it into a “page” template? That way we can have “Random Post” in our top nav bars?? Now THAT would be awesome!!
Apr 26th at 9:57 pm
Now that’s a fun one.
Apr 26th at 10:06 pm
Hmm. Interesting.
Apr 26th at 10:07 pm
Super, then we can go from random post to random post. Kind of an intrablog stumble…
Apr 26th at 10:26 pm
good job Matt
Apr 26th at 10:34 pm
what a funny addition
thanks..
Apr 26th at 10:40 pm
Thanks, it’s an exciting possibility. I’ve deployed it here ( http://regenerationayk.wordpress.com ) on the right side bar. I used a text widget.
Apr 26th at 11:15 pm
THAT’S AWESOME.
I’m going to put that on my blog right now.
Thanks!
You guys rock!
Apr 27th at 12:17 am
this surely what i’ve been looking for, great, thank man!
Apr 27th at 1:05 am
I agree with therealdonquixote. Can you make it a “page” link so that we can recirculate/introduce readers to random old posts?
Apr 27th at 1:07 am
The “snap shots” preview is evidently not random on these random links.
Apr 27th at 1:50 am
@therealdonequixote: if you have the CSS upgrade you can move the random post link anywhere you want.
I have it in my sidebar with the rest of the stuff like my tag cloud, sidebar, sitemap, etc.
Apr 27th at 2:33 am
It’s just sooo funny. I really like it.
Apr 27th at 3:01 am
goodie!
Apr 27th at 5:19 am
now this is one fun addition
Apr 27th at 5:23 am
it’s ok.
Apr 27th at 5:39 am
Aha.. thanks Matt.
Apr 27th at 6:31 am
I have it in my sidebar as a text widget link. Nice idea, Matt!
Apr 27th at 9:05 am
Cool feature that…fun too!
BTW, care to tell how the ‘Randomness’ is calculated
Apr 27th at 9:52 am
aaaa…. Fuuuun…
)))
I’m playing with my friends
Apr 27th at 10:15 am
Can you give me some more example to try? I have tried it but no result found. What is its syntax to add in the post?
Apr 27th at 11:04 am
Fun feature
Apr 27th at 11:48 am
lol
Apr 27th at 12:05 pm
Greeeeaaaaaat!!!!!!!!!!!
I was missing this kind of stuff so much… until now!
Thanks!!!
S.
Apr 27th at 12:09 pm
I like this one a lot. Planning to add it as a text widget.
Apr 27th at 12:25 pm
hey isnt this the thing used to mimic the features of stumbleupon. Techcrunch talked about you developing a stumble like feature. good add though.
Apr 27th at 12:37 pm
I tried it and I’m stuck in a Cheeseburger and can’t get out!
Apr 27th at 12:48 pm
It is fun and interesting. Already I’m thinking of what to do with it. Great idea. Thanks for sharing the tip.
Apr 27th at 12:51 pm
Innovative!
Apr 27th at 3:09 pm
Cool
Apr 27th at 3:59 pm
THATS FREEKIN’ AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Apr 27th at 4:57 pm
Apr 27th at 5:00 pm
This is so good, I like it soo much that I made a moving gif pic and put it on my sidebar! WORKS A TREAT!!!!!
Apr 27th at 5:23 pm
I love it! : D
Apr 27th at 5:49 pm
Great !
Apr 27th at 8:11 pm
I added this to my sidebar too. Pretty neat.
Does this have any effect on site stats? I mean, if you post the ?random url on other sites and someone clicks it, will it show a hit for the post they happened to land on?
I guess I’ll have to try, but if it does, it could complicate reading your statistics a bit.
Apr 27th at 9:29 pm
I love this option!!!!! THANK YOU!
Apr 27th at 9:45 pm
Excellent!!!!!!
Apr 28th at 1:39 am
wow! that’s great!
Apr 28th at 2:10 am
yeaaaahhhhhh!!
Apr 28th at 7:15 am
Love it, Matt…good one.
Apr 28th at 12:38 pm
Nice. hopefully, this’ll send some love to the less popular blogs
Apr 28th at 9:52 pm
Cool feature…
Apr 29th at 5:23 am
Very nice
Apr 29th at 8:26 am
ok… this is farny
Apr 29th at 2:17 pm
good job. thx.
Apr 29th at 3:21 pm
Very cool! A great way to increase readership of old posts.
Apr 29th at 6:47 pm
anything random is good by me
Apr 29th at 8:21 pm
I like this. My readers love it. Something I wanted years ago but couldn’t bring myself to javascript. Thanks for doing the hard stuff for me and leaving me to the writing!
Apr 30th at 2:03 pm
yay.. this is cool.. love this new feature. thanks!
Apr 30th at 6:07 pm
good job…
May 2nd at 5:11 pm
matt’s cool…Oh…Wordpress is cool!
May 3rd at 3:14 am
I enjoy the ability to blast randomised content at my audience like a bizarre Marvel comic mutant.
Fergis
May 3rd at 3:07 pm
Very useful useless toy! Loved it! Thanks Matt! ILWP!!!!
May 6th at 1:35 am
Matt, I kind of have a crush on you.
May 6th at 8:47 am
Gotta love random…..very sweet indeed!
May 7th at 10:29 am
This is kinda fun, I found posts I haven’t seen in months!
May 9th at 5:38 pm
I am going to have to try this but I only have two posts so I don’t think it will as much fun.