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How to Display a Random Post in WordPress

The WordPress plugin Redirect URL to Post comes with a handy set of options to send your visitors to a random post.

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How To Find Out The Source Of Spam Emails On Your WordPress Site

If your WordPress site sends out spam emails, you will need to find out where the cause is located. Use this script to log activity of the wp-mail function.

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Redirect URL to Post, Version 0.12.0: Filter by Comment Count

The latest release of the free WordPress plugin Redirect URL to Post adds three new parameters to filter posts by comment count: comment_count, comment_count_min and comment_count_max

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Tag Groups, Version 1.21.0: Two New Themes

This release comes with two new out-of-the-box themes.

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Redirect URL to Post, Version 0.11: Random With Bias

This version of the free WordPress plugin Redirect URL to Post comes with a new feature: You can now pick a random from all posts with a bias on a certain subsample. You determine the subsample as before with the parameters count and (optionally) offset. Normally, the random post would be picked from this subsample. …

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Redirect URL to Post, Version 0.10: Random From a Subsample

This version of the free WordPress plugin Redirect URL to Post comes with a new feature: Until now, the parameter random always picked one out of the entire pool of posts (that match the search criteria). Now you can pick a random post from a subsample. The new parameter count lets you limit the pool …

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Tag Groups, Version 0.42: Alphabetical Tag Cloud as Gutenberg Block

This update of the free Tag Groups WordPress plugin fixes a bug and adds one feature: Now you can use the Alphabetical Tag Cloud as Gutenberg block. The main advantage of the block is that you don’t need to mess around with shortcodes and parameters.((Of course, it also works as shortcode.)) Here is an example …

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Redirect Users to Random Posts – Video

The online magazine WPBeginner has created a useful screencast that shows you how to install and use my Redirect URL to Post plugin. You also find an article about redirecting to random WordPress posts on their website. Here is the video – with many thanks to the folks at WPBeginner!

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Tag Groups, Version 0.41: Tag Cloud With Alphabetical Tabs

The latest version of the free Tag Groups plugin comes with a few bug fixes and a new shortcode. The shortcode creates a tabbed tag cloud, similar to what we already know, the only difference being that the names in the tabs are created automatically: You find there the first letters of your tags. For …

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Redirect URL to Post, Version 0.9: Go to 2nd, 3rd, etc. Post

The latest version of Redirect URL to Post adds a new feature that has been requested several times by users: Now you can redirect to the 2nd, 3rd, or any later position in the set of posts that match the criteria. Simply use the new parameter offset. Here is one example: This link would redirect …