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.
April 26th, 2007 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.
April 26th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Lol, awesomely funny.
April 26th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Whoo Hooo!
A New Desk Toy!
amm
April 26th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
this is funny ^^
April 26th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
Random Thursday? I clicked on the above link, and suddenly it was Saturday…
April 26th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
Very fun. I forgot I even wrote some of the posts that pop up when I use this.
April 26th, 2007 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
April 26th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
cool!
April 26th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Thanks.
April 26th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
can we add this to the blog info menu in the top right of the blue bar?
April 26th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
my personal favorite
April 26th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
Very cool! I love it. Whoever suggested this had a great idea.
April 26th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
This is really cool!
April 26th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Precious
April 26th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Wow, that is utterly useless. But I guess it could be fun.
April 26th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Kewl… I really love the umm randomness of it!
April 26th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
One more addition to make wordpress even more interesting in using with my studentes.
Congrats!
LMML
Portugal
April 26th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
I like it!
April 26th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Adam, that’s a great idea. I’m deploying it now.
April 26th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Sweet, I like the fact that its a URL so we can customize it with images!!
April 26th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
I Can Has Cheezburger?RANDOM — FTW!
April 26th, 2007 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.
April 26th, 2007 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!!
April 26th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Now that’s a fun one.
April 26th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Hmm. Interesting.
April 26th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Super, then we can go from random post to random post. Kind of an intrablog stumble…
April 26th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
good job Matt
April 26th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
what a funny addition
thanks..
April 26th, 2007 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.
April 26th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
THAT’S AWESOME.
I’m going to put that on my blog right now.
Thanks!
You guys rock!
April 27th, 2007 at 12:17 am
this surely what i’ve been looking for, great, thank man!
April 27th, 2007 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?
April 27th, 2007 at 1:07 am
The “snap shots” preview is evidently not random on these random links.
April 27th, 2007 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.
April 27th, 2007 at 2:33 am
It’s just sooo funny. I really like it.
April 27th, 2007 at 3:01 am
goodie!
April 27th, 2007 at 5:19 am
now this is one fun addition
April 27th, 2007 at 5:23 am
it’s ok.
April 27th, 2007 at 5:39 am
Aha.. thanks Matt.
April 27th, 2007 at 6:31 am
I have it in my sidebar as a text widget link. Nice idea, Matt!
April 27th, 2007 at 9:05 am
Cool feature that…fun too!
BTW, care to tell how the ‘Randomness’ is calculated
April 27th, 2007 at 9:52 am
aaaa…. Fuuuun…
)))
I’m playing with my friends
April 27th, 2007 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?
April 27th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Fun feature
April 27th, 2007 at 11:48 am
lol
April 27th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Greeeeaaaaaat!!!!!!!!!!!
I was missing this kind of stuff so much… until now!
Thanks!!!
S.
April 27th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
I like this one a lot. Planning to add it as a text widget.
April 27th, 2007 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.
April 27th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
I tried it and I’m stuck in a Cheeseburger and can’t get out!
April 27th, 2007 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.
April 27th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Innovative!
April 27th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Cool
April 27th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
THATS FREEKIN’ AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 27th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
April 27th, 2007 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!!!!!
April 27th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
I love it! : D
April 27th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Great !
April 27th, 2007 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.
April 27th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
I love this option!!!!! THANK YOU!
April 27th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Excellent!!!!!!
April 28th, 2007 at 1:39 am
wow! that’s great!
April 28th, 2007 at 2:10 am
yeaaaahhhhhh!!
April 28th, 2007 at 7:15 am
Love it, Matt…good one.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Nice. hopefully, this’ll send some love to the less popular blogs
April 28th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Cool feature…
April 29th, 2007 at 5:23 am
Very nice
April 29th, 2007 at 8:26 am
ok… this is farny
April 29th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
good job. thx.
April 29th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Very cool! A great way to increase readership of old posts.
April 29th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
anything random is good by me
April 29th, 2007 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!
April 30th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
yay.. this is cool.. love this new feature. thanks!
April 30th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
good job…
May 2nd, 2007 at 5:11 pm
matt’s cool…Oh…Wordpress is cool!
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:14 am
I enjoy the ability to blast randomised content at my audience like a bizarre Marvel comic mutant.
Fergis
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Very useful useless toy! Loved it! Thanks Matt! ILWP!!!!
May 6th, 2007 at 1:35 am
Matt, I kind of have a crush on you.
May 6th, 2007 at 8:47 am
Gotta love random…..very sweet indeed!
May 7th, 2007 at 10:29 am
This is kinda fun, I found posts I haven’t seen in months!
May 9th, 2007 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.